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It's interesting to re-read the Gardiner pages on the Waterfront Toronto website. No mention there it was "paused"! http://www.waterfrontoronto.ca/explore_projects2/the_wider_waterfront/the_gardiner_expressway
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It's interesting to re-read the Gardiner pages on the Waterfront Toronto website. No mention there it was "paused"! http://www.waterfrontoronto.ca/explore_projects2/the_wider_waterfront/the_gardiner_expressway
Lord, those buildings on Michigan trump all Toronto streets by 100 miles! It is just a different scale. We will never be as pretty as those
The big city of 2.6 million (over 5 million in the metro area) rocked into full springtime, with pink cherries and tulips in full sway. The city’s scale exceeded my imaginings. Tall, broad buildings meet the street with the authority of Chicago or even Beijing. A razor-sharp clarity and generous urban sites render the blocks and the structures individually.
"Six to nine years before dismantelling could commence"........that's bizarre. At those schedules it's little wonder that Toronto's transportation system is the same as it was 40 years ago.
LA's Expo line did not involve any tunnelling, and a significant length of it operates in an existing right of way. Also, phase 1 is only 12km long.It is still beyond my understanding why the 19km Eglinton LRT will take 10 years (or longer if delayed) just to construct. LA's expo line (phase I) is 25km long and took 5.5 years.
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Reviewing the figures from Waterfront Toronto's 2004 study, it would appear that the Gardiner's prominent location and visibility give it a disproportionate place in our collective imagination.
- According to Waterfront Toronto's study, it delivers less than 9% of the people that work in Toronto's downtown - about 28,000 people. This is dwarfed by the number of people that arrive by TTC - 135,000 people - less than the number of people that take local roads - 92,000, and less than the number of people that arrive by GO Transit - 45,000.
- One thing that the 2004 study didn't consider was people that either walk or bike to work. According to the 2006 Census data, 186,305 people live in wards 20, 27 and 28. Of that group, 63,624 people travel to work by means other than cars or transit. Additionally, the recent condo boom has added another 38,288 people since 2006.
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After looking at these numbers, I am far more inclined to support just tearing the structure down and replacing it with a series of local roads, avenues and public transit. There really isn't a justification for spending about $55 million/year to maintain a structure that only 9% of people going into downtown use. And there certainly isn't any justification whatsoever for the enormous cost to build a tunnel for so few people to get downtown.
I had the same thought when seeing that. It really puts it in perspective. Toronto would be far better off tearing down the central Gardiner and splitting traffic between a new Lake Shore Blvd and a Front/Wellington one-way combo (much in the same way that the DVP connects to Richmond/Adelaide).
Spend that repair money on improving transit.
The Gardiner in Perspective
http://www.planningalliance.ca/node/533
The Gardiner Expressway’s giant new repair bill, in context
http://davidtopping.tumblr.com/post/40265949543/the-gardiner-expressways-giant-new-repair-bill-in
What of deliveries though?
What of deliveries though?
What of deliveries though?
Now more then ever if I could get 8 billion in a sale I would sell. 8 billion = DRL.