howl
Active Member
I expect that a lot of drivers that currently uses Dundas will start to divert to other routes. I expect that people will use Burnanthorpe, Royal York and Islington as alternatives to get to/from the highway. Good for Dundas but very bad for the other more residential routes.
The traffic engineers will then pat themselves on the back telling all that these lights did not impact travel time (while drivers are stuck waiting for the lights on other routes).
The purpose of reconfiguring Six Points isn't to make traffic better. The purpose of reconfiguring Six Point is to unlock hundreds of millions of dollars in developable land that currently can't be effectively developed because of all the ramps and flyovers. You have to stop thinking about Six Points as a suburban highway interchange and start thinking about it as a new pedestrian-oreinted city centre (like North York City Centre, not Scarborough City Centre).