MrsNesbitt
Active Member
I'm personally skeptical about closing Allen Rd. To me there is a much stronger case for closing the Gardiner, consider it's downtown and most people take transit to go downtown.
But completely regardless of whether it is or isn't a good idea, as you mentioned, there's absolutely no priority in spending money to do so at this time given the huge costs we'll have to spend to either maintain or remove the Gardiner, the DRL, and rest of the huge list of infrastructure we need to build.
All I was saying earlier was that a temporary & partial closure to make the LRT construction easier is fine, it had nothing to do with spending a huge amount of money removing a highway
To be fair I completely agree with you as well, in terms of priorities of infrastructure filling in the Allen is way down there.
What I do think though is this temporary closure thereof will provide some good data on what traffic may be like if the Allen was eventually closed, so that that data could be used in discussions on the issue if/when it ever arises.