EnviroTO
Senior Member
This section of Eglinton will be a lot busier when new condos get built.
Reducing road capacity in a city with traffic as bad as Toronto is a terrible idea.
It will never be as dense as downtown, unlike King there will be turning lanes, and there is a decent street grid in the area to distribute local traffic. Anyone that has tried on multiple occasions to cross the city on Eglinton would know that there are better ways (i.e. Lawrence or the 401) because Eglinton wasn't moving most days prior to construction. Eglinton is now 2 lanes each way and will be for the next 5 years with or without Eglinton Connects and that is with buses on the street and no underground LRT. The whole point of these transit projects are to get people to use them and Yonge and Eglinton is the intersection of two lines. They will reduce Front street to two lanes in front of Union Station as well... but it doesn't matter because the effective capacity (the lanes which are free of parked and standing vehicles) will not really change. Why build LRT for billions of dollars and then make more lanes of traffic through the area than there was originally?