Myth: If you take down the eastern portion of the Gardiner Expressway, the current levels of traffic will have nowhere to go.
February 28, 2014, Toronto, ON— The Reality: Many cities have removed elevated expressways from their downtowns without replacing the roadway capacity. Common sense would suggest that if you remove an expressway, that traffic must go somewhere, with the result that the same number of cars trying to squish into fewer lanes, or clogging up other routes.