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Originally Posted by thewave46
The highway network tends to be conceptually aimed at long-distance travel. Alas, because of the construction of our cities, we tend to use major highways for commuting purposes within regions.
Relatively few users of the 400-series highway network use it to travel outside the region they inhabit. The best solution for reducing congestion on the 401 might be to improve transit within the most congested areas. That's a multi-decade re-imagining of how we move people though.
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I don't think our communities have been built in such a way that we could ever shift people from driving onto transit in a meaningful way. Not to mention the fact that the hinterland of Ontario isn't accessible (and really never will be) by meaningful transit.
Places like the UK or Japan that all have really good transit systems don't have geographically huge regions that aren't really accessible via transit like we do.
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