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Originally Posted by miketoronto
It shows how many times people come out to the suburbs.
Toronto's suburbs actually have pretty narrow roads compared to most other North American suburban areas.
Yes there are portions where the roads get into 6 lane territory. However even in those situations, there is usually no medians, and the roads are pretty narrow.
The norm in suburban Toronto however, is 4 lane arterial roads, with left turning lanes in sections.
So the idea that us suburbanites live on these huge wide wides, is actually not very true.
Here is Finch Ave. See not that wide at all.
http://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&ll=...55.72,,0,-3.48
In fact I would bet that Toronto's small arterial roads are partly the result of the good bus service on these streets. If these streets had to handle the 30,000-50,000 extra car trips a day that these bus routes remove from stretches of each of these major east-west roads, I bet the roads would be a lot wider. |
What???
You actually just proved Andrew's point. The road can easily be doubled to accommodate above ground transit.
Most of Etobicoke, Scarborough and North York can easily accommodate above ground transit.
Heck, if downtown Chicago can do it, Toronto suburbs should have no choice but to do it.
Why do suburbanites think their special and deserve such great mass transit?