11th
Senior Member
The 401 is the bigger issue than the Gardiner and DVP in terms of traffic. It must truly be a great idea to dump more traffic on it.I think a lot of people see the removal of any highway as a "war on the car" and are therefore against the removal in principle even though they never use that piece of road.
The fact is most people arriving or leaving the downtown core use Richmond/Adelaide or Spadina/York. The majority of people using the section of the Gardiner between Yonge and the DVP are going between southern Etobicoke and southern Scarborough (or High Park and the Beaches). It's convenient for them, but its not something 99.9% of drivers in Toronto would ever miss. Removing it certainly wouldn't cause traffic chaos in the city as the alarmists would have us believe. It might cause a bit more traffic on the 401, but it would probably reduce traffic on the remaining Gardiner and DVP.
We've killed the Scarborough expressway, handed the 407 over for a lifetime lease, and now we speak of dismantling a piece of the remaining ring route. The traffic (not just single-occupancy automobiles) has to go somewhere, and where does it go? 401.
At the end, everyone is selfish on this issue whether they are for removal, hybrid, or maintain.