andrewpmk
Senior Member
http://contests.eyeweekly.com/eye/issue/issue_11.08.01/news/dvp.php
Miller was against widening the DVP in 2001. Basically the issue is that the 404 was widened but the DVP was not so the traffic on the DVP is much worse than the 404. The DVP is bad practically 24/7 north of Eglinton as is the southbound part of 404 just before the 401 where it narrows to 2 lanes over the bridge but the rest of the 404 is only bad in rush hour.
I think that Miller had these weird ideas that we should deliberately remove road capacity to discourage people from driving by making traffic worse. He would claim that people would stop driving if you get rid of road capacity but that isn't true most of the time. People either drive at different times of day or they clog up parallel roads like Bayview. That would explain why he had this weird obsession with LRT, liked bike lanes and wanted to demolish the Gardiner. His LRT obsession makes so little sense because Sheppard has tens of thousands of residents in apartments on it and the Sheppard subway is obviously underused only because it is very short. In the case of Eglinton he insisted on a very unusual partially underground LRT line which is extremely expensive and has low capacity rather than a subway. I do not understand why you wouldn't build a normal subway under Eglinton and leave Sheppard alone if there is no money to extend it. Also I don't understand why Miller acted as if GO Transit doesn't exist. The bike lane thing seems to be a fad everywhere, but I really worry that people will get hurt if more people ride bikes because I think it is too dangerous. There is a reason that only 2% of Torontonians bike to work. I think that Ford was basically elected in 2010 because Miller was really unpopular, pretty much everyone hated his LRT plan and the garbage strike didn't help. Of course Ford was a complete disaster, so if Tory wins it will be up to him to clean up the mess left by the previous two administrations.
