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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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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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