Sarkaria also claimed some drivers reported their commutes had increased by as much as 20 to 30 minutes.
Very scientific
Let’s increase them even more after the lanes are removed
Congestion will increase with the added car lane. And that’s a fact, Jack! Every added lane to highways everywhere has attracted more car traffic and resulted in no commute time improvement. All of us need to start electing politicians who know things and understand or can at least comprehend how the world of common people actually functions!
Well, to be fair, there is a point when adding lanes will remove all congestion. It is when road infrastructure has become so obscenely huge and land use has become so stretched thin, that the whole monstrosity is lethal in anything but a car and utterly unaffordable because of crazy infrastructure and maintenance costs. Needless to say that the area will also look and feel like a mixture of hell and a bitumen crater.
Sounds like LA to me
Not even close. LA has plenty of traffic congestions. Way wider roads and lower density of everything. You have to go pretty far towards the absurd to outrun car traffic.
I run a tabletop game of Vampire, and last week the players found a NIMBY “no bike lanes” activist and ran her over with her own SUV until she was dead. Gosh was that cathartic.
I’m so tired of being helpless as fucking idiots make things worse for stupid reasons.
So, that means, that Bloor Street will be from now on congestion free, once those cyclist lanes are gone, right? Right?! I am sure Mr Sarkaria will be fine with presenting a report on that in 1 year time, showing the change…
Working towards fewer single-occupant cars will reduce traffic congestion.
Rush hour bike club anyone?
