Lone Primate
Active Member
I have often thought that the biggest oversight in GTA planning was the concept that providing jobs in the suburbs will reduce commute times.
It did for me. I had a 15 mintue interurban drive for ten years (barring bad weather or the occasional traffic tie-up, of course). It was a trip of about seven miles. Lived, as you mentioned, in Toronto and worked in Markham.
Now, I take a bus and a subway a trip of roughly two miles. I never even leave the city. The trip takes 25 minutes in the morning, and about 40 minutes in the evening.
For me, and I'm sure for many others, your epic fall epicly fails. The reason we have the typical commute times we do now was because of boneheaded decisions made in the latter 1960s, and I'm not afraid to say so. There were realities on the ground, and they were ignored for pie in the sky "what if" social engineering fantasies that faceplanted by the mid-70s.