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Humber Bay Shores - The Morning Rush Hour Horror Show
an investigative report by FMJ
(brace yourselves)
All photos were taken between 8:18 and 8:30 am on this fine Wednesday morning
Lake Shore, the entire stretch between Park Lawn and Humber river. Two cars are going westbound, a steady flow going eastbound (note the spacing between the cars on Lake Shore vs. Gardiner):
Just 2 cars are stuck in the right turn lane due to pedestrians the next minute:
(in case you were worried, all the cars and the bus made it past the lights once they turned green)
Naturally, with all this congestion on the major thoroughfares, all the local roads are backed up too:
Marine Parade is a bumper-to-bumper all the way from Palace Pier to Park Lawn:
But enough with the pictures. I could have just photoshopped all the cars out of the photos. Right?
I present to you the next line of evidence. I didn't know this until yesterday, but you can actually see the typical average traffic conditions on Google Maps at any given time on any given day of the week. And if you ever used Google Maps for navigation, you know how solid the quality of their traffic metadata is. So I played around with the sliders and it turns out the traffic in Humber Bay Shores is, in fact, at its worst between 8 am and 8:30 am. So let's take a few hypothetical trips around the area using Google's average rush hour traffic data.
The rush hour travel times between Palace Pier and the Gardiner on/off-ramps, going either way. Compared with the traffic-free travel times on a Saturday morning:
So what the people of Humber Bay Shores are really complaining about is that during the peak of the rush hour, their travel times increase by anywhere between one/two minutes on the low end and the whopping 4 minutes on the high end! Oh, the hummanity!!
Humber Bay rush hour traffic vs. the rest of the city:
So now you know what sort of traffic nightmare people from this area are complaining about. I would like to argue that Humber Bay Shores does not suffer from a traffic problem, it suffers from the high density of entitled crybabies.
I rest my case.
an investigative report by FMJ
(brace yourselves)
All photos were taken between 8:18 and 8:30 am on this fine Wednesday morning
Lake Shore, the entire stretch between Park Lawn and Humber river. Two cars are going westbound, a steady flow going eastbound (note the spacing between the cars on Lake Shore vs. Gardiner):
Looking north onto Park Lawn in the direction of the left turn onto the westbound Gardiner. One or two cars are headed that way in the distance:
Please refer to the above photo for all the bike lane markings. They must have used invisible paint ?
Looking east from the Esso station towards Palace Pier. The time is 8:27 am. A bus and less than a dozen cars are waiting for the light.
Just 2 cars are stuck in the right turn lane due to pedestrians the next minute:
The above mentioned total gong show:
~20 cars are stuck in "traffic" (waiting for the light to turn green). About as bad as I've ever seen this intersection:
(in case you were worried, all the cars and the bus made it past the lights once they turned green)
Naturally, with all this congestion on the major thoroughfares, all the local roads are backed up too:
Marine Parade is a bumper-to-bumper all the way from Palace Pier to Park Lawn:
But enough with the pictures. I could have just photoshopped all the cars out of the photos. Right?
I present to you the next line of evidence. I didn't know this until yesterday, but you can actually see the typical average traffic conditions on Google Maps at any given time on any given day of the week. And if you ever used Google Maps for navigation, you know how solid the quality of their traffic metadata is. So I played around with the sliders and it turns out the traffic in Humber Bay Shores is, in fact, at its worst between 8 am and 8:30 am. So let's take a few hypothetical trips around the area using Google's average rush hour traffic data.
The rush hour travel times between Palace Pier and the Gardiner on/off-ramps, going either way. Compared with the traffic-free travel times on a Saturday morning:
So what the people of Humber Bay Shores are really complaining about is that during the peak of the rush hour, their travel times increase by anywhere between one/two minutes on the low end and the whopping 4 minutes on the high end! Oh, the hummanity!!
Humber Bay rush hour traffic vs. the rest of the city:
So now you know what sort of traffic nightmare people from this area are complaining about. I would like to argue that Humber Bay Shores does not suffer from a traffic problem, it suffers from the high density of entitled crybabies.
I rest my case.
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