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Originally Posted by Innsertnamehere
The thing is that while 110k cars use it daily, the vast majority begin and end their trips in the downtown. Its a very local connector highway. maybe 10k of those trips actually travel through the downtown. This means that ripping it down won't change much as people can easily shift to other roads or take transit. roughly 1/2 of the use of the road comes from the lakeshore exit, and most of that traffic will be local trips from the east of the city that can be shifted to streetcar trips or something.
an 8 lane road with 3 stop lights as proposed can probably handle around 80-90k.
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I don't know that this is true. It seems to me that those who benefit most from the east end of the Gardiner would be by-passing the Downtown corridor. Without the Gardiner, it would be difficult for someone living in the Beaches area, or south Scarborough to commute to a job in Etobicoke or Mississauga.
Unless they are going to Spadina, most downtown bound traffic from the Parkway seems to get off at Richmond.
If I were in charge, I'd build an ETR style toll road along the former Scarborough Expressway lands to feed into the Gardiner and downtown. It would finally provide a commuting option for people living in South Scarborough that was faster than 25km/h, and could potentially open up additional economic opportunities for some forgotten neighbourhoods.
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