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Ontario added 134 km of lanes to Highway 401. Its key bottleneck didn’t get better (globalnews.ca)

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[–] dankm@lemmy.ca 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Seriously, if this is costing us 11 billion a day in economic damage, get more people working from home.

So much this. I'm not in Ontario, my commute in Saskatoon is an obscene 15 minutes, so I don't go into work all the time. People have asked why I never took any tech jobs in Toronto or KW, and there are two major reasons: 1. Too people-y. I am a small town person, and 2. TRAFFIC HOLY FUCK WHO CAN SIT IN A CAR THAT LONG IN THE CITY?!!? I won't move to Calgary, Edmonton, or even Winnipeg for the same reason and they're not nearly as bad.

[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

On average, working from home doesn't decrease car trips overall. The only solution to traffic is viable alternatives to driving such as transit or cycling.

Edit: y'all can keep downvoting me but here is a study that goes into deeper detail. The only solution to traffic is alternatives to driving cars, this has been proven many times over many metrics and demographics. link to article