TOareaFan
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The problem is the highway is just overused. Increased transit and road tolling is probably a better use of money that making the interchange even bigger. It boggles my mind that people would choose to live in one city, and commute to another.
I know you did not mean that as a personal shot or an attack (just a comment) but whenever I read things like that they come across (to my ears) as urban elitist attitudes that are not willing to consider the realities that the region (and people in it) face. So, to give the other "we should all live where we work" proponents some perspective, I will give you my personal situation.....I don't think I am anywhere close to unique and it might explain all the cars zipping around the GTA when, really, we all agree it is a better quality of life if we worked were we live:
1. I didn't choose to live in Brampton and work in Toronto.......my family chose to live in Brampton when I was a kid.....I grew up there, my wife's family grew up there, our roots are there it is "where we are from" and where our families, friends, roots are......so we chose to stay were we grew up...that used to be considered a "value".
2. As with most families today, we are a two income family. My wife's line of work affords her the ability to work in town.....mine does not....there are no jobs for me in Brampton.....if we moved close to my work......she would have to commute (either to Brampton or some other part of town....her type of program is very suburban).
In a mixed economy with two income families it is very difficult for a signficant number of families to find employment for both partners in the same city....it is not a choice to live in one city and work in another....it is just a part of my (and many people's) reality. One of the guys who works for me, actually, chose to live near his work.....his wife reverse communtes to Brampton everyday!
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