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.
Myth: If you take down the eastern Gardiner Expressway, traffic will have nowhere to go.
The Reality: Many cities have removed their elevated expressways without replacing the road capacity. Defying common sense, the result has been a decrease in traffic and demand for roads.
POSTED: FEBRUARY 28, 2014 I ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, TRANSPORTATION, INFRASTRUCTURE, DESIGN
BY: CHRISTOPHER MCKINNON