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That’s a bit of a blanket statement. It depends what you want to solve. Adding capacity through Toronto is functionally useless as there is nowhere for it to go, there’s no room for expansion on city streets. Expanding the 401 out towards Waterloo Region and Kingston is a better goal, for...

Agreed. And actually yes, the 401 (Toronto Bypass) was actually was 2 lanes in each direction until they expanded it to the 12 lanes we have today.

What’s your alternative? Would you rather we go back to the original 401 before its expansion, which was only 2 lanes each way? I do agree that 12 lanes is usually a bit much and we should have built Toronto differently, and with better planning, but it’s what we have today.

After a certain point it becomes unrealistic or unreasonable to keep expanding. Aside from the frivolous 401 tunnel proposal, there really isn’t much to realistically do to the 401 across Toronto proper except maybe some lane reconfigurations. The 400 will be fully built out in the coming years...

12 lanes moving at 40km/h is still more people than 6 lanes at the same speed. Not that we should endlessly expand highways, but don't we want more people taking trips? That improves people's mobility. Obviously if we can make those trips on transit it is superior, but freeways will always be...

It's not necessarily about speed per se, it is about redirecting through traffic from local roads and Downtown Bradford where it doesn't need to be. This is the model we should be aiming for- through roads for cars should be separate from valuable space in our cities. It's why the Netherlands...

Hate to be the pessimistic one, but when do we start worrying about 2026?

I think the question was more about the radius of the curve. To me at least, it does not seem different enough to matter significantly.

https://www.cp24.com/local/toronto/2025/12/26/no-service-on-much-of-line-6-due-to-debris-on-tracks/

Most of the curves are fine to be honest, the curve down the hill right as you come into Kingston is substandard though.

I'm very much aware of what induced demand is and I am an avid consumer of urbanist content. I actually walk, cycle (yes, in the winter too), and use public transit more than I drive. As insertnamehere explained really well, it's not necessarily a bad thing. The Netherlands has some roads that...

Let's actually just reduce all 400 series highways to 2 lanes. Surely demand will evaporate into thin air, right?

Let's just hand Line 6 over to GRT at this point

Realistically I don't think we'll ever see the 427 extended in our lifetimes. The 400 would sooner be 10 laned to Barrie before that is even considered.

Likely it will get to a point where it is just the line map of the train you are on, like the ones we see on Line 6 trains. And then, a regional diagram (Metrolinx's is actually very good) could be posted somewhere else along the train.