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Originally Posted by jmecklenborg
Does this plan have any specifics? Are we talking a super-express (only system-to-system interchanges), or something that creates new traffic pathways like the relatively new tunnel in Seattle?
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No - at this point it's little more than a study with a pretty broad scope that will take a couple years. This was basically electioneering.
I'm not actually necessarily opposed to tunneling as a way to increase road capacity in Toronto on principle - it's pretty common in Australian cities for instance. Notably Sydney with the WestConnex project but Brisbane and Melbourne also have tunneled (and tolled) sections of freeway through central areas. If it was going to be done in Toronto I can't see the sense in simply going underneath the existing 401 as opposed to creating other connections where highway traffic currently gets dumped onto city streets. This would be in addition to transit expansions of course.