salsa
Senior Member
if I am right on my two "I thoughts", it is a long way from being the equivalent to closing the DVP for RFH.
Yeah well this is the best you can expect from Mississauga. There is no way they would close the 403 for a cycling event. Cars are too important to be inconvenienced in the name of funding cancer research.
it is acutally a very good use of the space if it is already closed and I wonder if, regionally, it could be used as a compromise solution for all the walks/rides/runs that raise good money for good causes but face some opposition when they "snarl the city"?
- Ride for Heart has about 15,000 cyclists. There is no way that just one lane on the transitway could handle that many people compared to the 3 lanes on the DVP.
- The scenery is not nearly as interesting. For the most part Mississauga is not a beautiful city.
- At some point the cyclists/runners have to get off the transitway and onto local roads, so there may still be some road closures.
- The air quality around the transitway is not the best due to nearby highways and arterials.
- Mississauga is not easy to get to compared to central Toronto. I got up at 5:30 am to make it on time to that cycling event. The commute was 2 hours via bike (still faster than transit). However almost everyone else would drive to get there, so for huge events like Ride for Heart that would be a traffic nightmare if everyone took the car.