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The trouble is that all of this will not doubt be followed by calls to expand the Gardiner.
Chuck, those billions would be far, far, far better spent on (1) burying the Gardiner, (2) burying the rail corridor, and (3) building more subway lines.
Like I said before, my support for new road projects is slim to nil. However, either the Spadina Expressway or a Black Creek extension to the Gardiner are both logical candidates for eliminating some of those god awful missing links in the GTA's highway network. Building new highways to sprawl land is one thing, completing the highway network is a whole other ballgame.
Can anybody here, without looking it up, name the street that vanished under the Allen at Eglinton? I doubt it. Nobody today misses it. Nobody today would miss the few remaining houses now, had they been removed in 1970. I can imagine people would miss the ravine, inasmuch as it exists now, but even that would have passed with a generation.
This barrier effect cascades into causing far greater ramifications that can effectively disrupt the cohesiveness of a neighbourhood and potentially bring about its demise.
Full-scale construction of the Spadina expressway clearly will never happen.
Maybe it's best to look at it this way: who'd you have on your side on behalf of the Spadina, or a Lansdowne/Jameson jog elimination, etc?...Essentially, you've conceded to the Jacobites...
CDL.TO said:I can quit any time I want! Once we build this highway then things will be fine! It's the last bottleneck we need to solve, I swear!
unimaginative2 said:Lone Primate, don't you think Toronto has done extremely well since stopping Spadina?
However, even though I'm quite in favour of not adding any more highways in Toronto - I'm not sure that a simple 2-lane tunnel in each direction from Eglinton simply to merge into Bathurst wouldn't be inappropriate. The bottleneck from the expressway stopping dead at Eglinton are significant, and if you could distribute a chunk of the traffic onto a north-south artery with minimal disturbance (by following the existing subway tunnel the relatively short distance to Bathurst) then surely this would be an improvement that wouldn't be totally horrific - and might actually benefit the community in the Eglinton/Bathurst area by eliminating some of the gridlock (and pollution) on their streets