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Ontario expects GTA traffic to get so bad that highways will crawl below 20 km/h (www.blogto.com)
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[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

Fuck you peasants, believe or not, still no public transit.

Get into you wage wagon, drive to your wage cage and get back to cucking for daddy

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (7 children)

TBF, Ontario (and most importantly, Toronto) are going through the biggest transit expansion in all of North America. For those unaware, I'll list some of the projects by transit agency:

  • TTC (Toronto local transit) has a new metro (the Ontario Line/eventually Line 3), and 2 new LRT/light-metro lines under construction
  • GO (region transit) is undergoing a huge expansion where they're increasing frequency and electrifying the lines, while also doing a bunch of smaller projects to decrease travel times and points of conflict
  • Mississauga/Brampton have the Hurontario LRT under construction (also owned by GO/Metrolinx, but local transit, so I separated it)
  • Hamilton's LRT is in planning
  • ION LRT in Waterloo is planning Stage 2

There are too many bike infrastructure projects to mention, and a lot of new urbanist developments.

At the same time, the provincial government also has a number of projects that are crazy car-centric, like Highway 413, so it's not all good.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Love how you omitted Canada's capital and their rail system of complete failures and fuckups from your list.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That's not a project in progress, so I didn't include it. It's also in a completely different region than the GTA, while all those projects are in the GTHA (except maybe Waterloo).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

The original post was about GTA, so I talked about the GTA. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I didn't know they were extending the Confederation Line. As I said, it's a completely different region of the province, and I'm not as familiar with the national capital region. However, I know this statement

5 years ago, there was no rail system

is BS. The Trillium line is over 2 decades old.

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