CityPlaceN1
Senior Member
IIRC the Yonge subway line carries the equivalent of 16 lanes of traffic. Build a few more like that and the existing roads should have more than enough capacity for trucks.
Industrial areas downtown moved for reasons of land value and high property taxes. Industrial areas in suburban 416 are also being squeezed this time almost exclusively due to high property taxes. Companies are moving from 401/404 to 404/407 because of high property taxes in 416 even though both have good highway access.
Certainly those issues were all part of why some manufacturing, especially the large scale stuff, left the city. I don't think it was so land value driven as you might think, however. Only fairly recently has the trend been to convert buildings into lofts/offices/etc., but if you get away from the downtown area there is still a lot of space that could be utilized much better and is not valued too highly.
Industrial areas downtown moved for reasons of land value and high property taxes. Industrial areas in suburban 416 are also being squeezed this time almost exclusively due to high property taxes. Companies are moving from 401/404 to 404/407 because of high property taxes in 416 even though both have good highway access.