Doug Ford says he wants to build a tunnel under Hwy. 401 (toronto.ctvnews.ca)

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Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he wants to build a tunnel for cars and transit under Highway 401 that would stretch roughly from Brampton to Scarborough.

Citing increasing gridlock and little room for highway expansion at a news conference Wednesday morning, Ford says his government will begin studying the technical feasibility of building a tunnel stretching across the GTA under the country's busiest highway.

"This tunnel and expressway will cut gridlock, support economic growth and help get people moving faster," Ford said.

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[-] ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social 37 points 10 months ago

Fucking stupid idea. If you're going to bore a tunnel build a subway. Much higher capacity without the ability to have an underground traffic jam.

[-] AnotherDirtyAnglo@lemmy.ca 9 points 10 months ago

Let's not forget that his shithead junkie brother cancelled MOST of Transit City -- a plan developed & designed for maximum impact for the least expense... Costing the city of Toronto nearly $100M in wasted work and cancellation penalties (which massively benefitted developers).

He fought like hell for the city to build subways rather than surface rail on a separated grade from cars, which is far cheaper, and nearly as effective as subways when approaching streetcars get priority from traffic lights.