"We've only tried solutions that make the problem worse, and we're all out of ideas."
this post was submitted on 10 Jan 2026
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Add another lane in each direction!
Waddaya mean no magic bullet? We just need to add one more lane!
Take away two and put in a fucking high speed high frequency train.
Seems to be a pretty good solution (when it’s built).
Sooo high speed from Whitby to Toronto?
Biggest issue isn't Joe Taxpayer who commutes from Peterborough to Toronto. It's the person who commutes from King City to Bay St. Need a solution for satellite / feeder cities - high speed doesn't suffice unfortunately
Thank god it wasn't a provincial appointment: "Remove bike lanes, speedcams, red light cams, speed bumps, all traffic-calming measures, EVs, cut TTC. Oh, and build tunnels for our ICE cars."
Pretty sure this appointment is to preempt Ford installing a provincial one. This way Ford creating such a poaition would look redundant and wasteful. 😄
Yours is a good take.
There iiiiiis a silver bullet...
But the provincial government is trying to ban it... and it's not popular for people around Toronto to try.
If I were mayor, I'd put in cameras on all exits on the Gardiner (the closest available spot off provincial property)and on the DVP and 427 from Eglinton southward.
Then propose changing one of the 401, DVP, Gardiner and 427 lanes to a bus lane, and put in a Toronto circulator bus service (TTC or GO depending on how the province feels about funding this service) that brings people around the city at speeds almost as if they were in a car.
Not workable. Manhattan and London have viable alternatives to driving, namely, their transit systems. Your proposal doesn't fix the last mile, which for Toronto, is especially egregious.
I like the thinking though.
I suppose if the price is high enough maybe but typically congestion prices just reduces congestion, not eliminates it.
The real silver bullet is just ban cars from densely populated areas. But people would riot so that won't happen.
Correct :3