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Dealing with many of these issues would require bold actions on the part of the government and perhaps industry. Red tape reduction, legislation, and many other tools should be used to make changes to bring down costs. out of control costs like out of control spending is not sustainable long term its just not.
Possibly recognizing the inevitable. A 2-lane road connecting two 400-series highways doesn't seem to make much sense. A 2-lane provincial highway would have at-grade intersections with every north-south road it encounters. That would probably promote sprawl faster than a closed access route, and if traffic volumes are high (no clue what the engineers are projecting), the more intersections equals a higher collision rate.
Driving is a lot more subsidized than other means of transportation, whereas as walking and biking are dirt cheap in comparison!
That's what I've been saying!
Don't forget this will provide redundancy, and that is very important in a transportation network. If the 400 is closed for some reason (accident etc), this will provide a great relief.
From what I have read and come to understand, yes. I am surprised one has not already been assigned, like the 413 has been
A perpendicular highway will not provide redundancy
It will provide redundancy, but it would be highly unnecessary and a poor use of taxpayer money. It would quite literally bring about negative marginal returns.
Resounding yes for underbuilding public transit, no for underbuilding highways. If anything, the GTHA has more highways than a typical world city/metro area of similar size. Even compared to the US, Toronto isn't lacking highway capacity.
One of the biggest arguments I would have about Hamilton's highways is that, unlike Toronto and the cities directly adjacent to it, and Barrie, Hamilton's highways have not been touched with respect to major upgrades or widenings in like forever. outside the Hwy 5/6 interchange, "talk" of provincial uploads for the LAP and Redhill, and some work on Hwy 6 south, nothing major is going on. I hope that eventually changes
See above, also Hamilton traffic is much better than Toronto traffic. The highway network is much larger for the population size. In my experience, you can reasonably expect 60 km/h average speeds driving across the city (trips starting or ending in a suburb). Toronto, you're lucky to average more than 30 km/h.
All that money to save people 2 minutes if we're lucky
I think Highway 403 should at least be widened a bit that imo would help with the congestion that often occurs
Sorry you are wrong, read my post again about diverting traffic from a closed or congested Highway 400. I have a background in this area and know what i am talking about.
