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This list is kind of bunk. I'm not going to go through them line by line, but for example, I-475 through Flint was just extensively reconstructed. There are no actual plans for it's removal. Same with I-5 through Seattle. There are no actual plans to remove it. More than that, when they had...

The Gardiner Expressway carries approximately 110,000 vehicles per day between Jarvis and the DVP. Assuming a vehicle occupancy rate of approximately 1.2 persons per vehicle (a reasonable assumption), the Gardiner East moves about 132,000 people every day. Source...

Some of that is probably just the New York Times pandering to its audience. Yes, there are some freeway removals happening in the US (and elsewhere). Those projects excite urbanists, so it would be in the best interest of a newspaper that is read by urbanists to write a story about it. For...

How much money did Seattle just spend on their Alaskan Way Viaduct replacement tunnel? That was a huge chunk of change to build a brand new urban freeway to bypass their downtown area.

Madrid replaced it's urban freeway with a tunnel and then built a park overtop. Nothing was removed. And no one is talking about removing any freeways in San Diego. Detroit is talking about downgrading a spur section of the 375 freeway to a boulevard because it's cheaper, nothing meaningful...

The problems with Detroit, Cleveland and Cincinnati aren't at all related to the construction of freeways throughout their neighbourhoods. San Diego has one of the most extensive freeway networks in all of the US, and nobody ever says that San Diego is a terrible city because of it's freeways...

It's too bad the Star doesn't give the same level of scrutiny to del Duca. The owners of the lands in Vaughan west of the 400 have donated extensively to his election results, and those of the Liberals. There is a lot of speculation in party that the reason the Liberals pulled their support...

For the same reason we shouldn't trust urbanists when they list off their oppositions to highway construction I suppose.

It is engaging in fantasies. Brampton is primarily a city of low density dwellings with single family homes that don't back directly onto arterial streets. The employment centres are the same. The list of improvements you have provided is not going transition a meaningful amount of trips onto...

^ Yeah, I don't think that's going to do it. Brampton is full of single family dwellings that are backlotted from the major streets. The largest employment centres in Brampton are low desnity industrial areas along the Mississauga border. Heated bus shelters only grow the transit modal share...

Brampton has done a great job growing nothing into something. In 2016, transit usage was just shy of 14% of trips to work in Brampton. What meaningful way could they get to 20 or 25 or 30?

Patrick Brown's platform supported GTA West as well. It was only after he was kicked out of the PC caucas that he reversed his opinion. Agree with Brown's position or not, I suspect his opposition to GTA West has more to do with spite than it does with actual sound planning. Brampton's new...

In a post covid world, there is going to be an increasing shift to non-traditional working arrangements where people don't need to be at an office for a set amount of time throughout the day. Since the 1970s there has been a slow, but steady decline in carpool usage in many cities across North...

50% isn't realistic. I'm not even sure if 30% is realistic. I mean, if at the height of the oil crisis in the 1970s we didn't see 50% trips being made on transit, a shiny new bus lane probably isn't going to do it either.

The idea that the 407 has oodles of capacity is a fallacy as well. There is a bit of capacity, sure, but the core sections of the 407 are probably already at level of service "D" at peak periods in the summer. Too much more traffic is going to make highway operations unstable. Particularly if...

The province isn't going to contract the urban limits. The developers line the pockets of whatever party is in power. They did with the Liberals, and they surely are doing the same with the conservatives. The land is going to be serviced and it is going to be paved, with or without the...

The land for GTA West (I hate the 413 monikor -- it won't be numbered 413) is going to be paved one way or another. The land in question is owned by developers and isn't part of the greenbelt. It's going to be converted to subdvisions either way, it's just a matter of whether we build the...