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'Needs to be done faster': Calls grow for Gardiner construction to pick up the pace (www.cp24.com)

submitted 11 months ago by lautan to c/toronto

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In the final report of a three-part series on Gardiner Gridlock, CTV Toronto asks what more can be done to alleviate the impact of the construction that has been a tipping point for Toronto traffic.

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[–] Rentlar 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but a sizeable chunk of these people aren't paying the city of Toronto for using the roads that the City is rehabilitating, and yet they whine for 24/7 overtime work. Toronto should take a loan, finish the rehabilitation and institute tolls/congestion charge in the downtown area.

[–] Grappling7155 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The province doesn’t permit them to institute congestion charges.

[–] Rentlar 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah, the good news is that the City is offloading the highway costs to the province as part of a deal so at least Torontonian's aren't going to be the main bearer of financial burdens of these crumbling highways.

The downside is that toll roads on the DVP & Gardiner are out of the question.

I don't know if that rules out charges on crowded downtown streets though (similar to how New York is about to implement it, where the highways around the edge of the island are excluded)

[–] nik282000 4 points 11 months ago

One! More! Lane! 🤡