Hockey

Whats more embarassing is that regular citizens have to deal with this shit tier traffic every day. (And by traffic, i mean all the drivers who collectively all decide to drive downtown and then complain there are too many cars on the road).

Willy Nylander takes transit to the arena all the time.

Oh yeah, and this is the same city that is planning on tearing up a bunch of bike lanes so that MORE drivers will bring their cars downtown. (Technically, its not the city's decision...)

Clearly we need to remove the bike lanes clogging up the streets /s

Doug Ford is blaming bike lanes for the traffic, as if one more lane for cars in downtown Toronto will make it all better.

Toronto:

• 1954:

  • Population: 1.3M,
  • Num of N-S Subways: 1
  • Num of E-W Subways: 0

• 1978:

  • Population: 2.9M
  • Num of N-S Subways: 1
  • Num of E-W Subways: 1

• 2002:

  • Population: 4.7M
  • Num of N-S Subways: 1
  • Num of E-W Subways: 1.25

• 2024:

  • Population: 6.4M
  • Num of N-S Subways: 1
  • Num of E-W Subways: 1.25

We have increased our population density by orders of magnitude while building no new capacity to move people around.

In that time period we have extended our already overcrowded Yonge line, opened an express train to the airport, opened one street with a dedicated LRT corridor, and dug precisely zero new tunnels.

When you turn your city into a series of skyscrapers with thousands of people stacked on top of each other you need both trains and tunnels to actually move them around efficiently. Surface level roads will inherently clog.

Say it with me: There's no solution to traffic except viable alternatives to driving.