"The province is mulling two major highway projects. An expansion of Highway 427 moved forward late in January .... And even though the GTA West, a highway proposed to run between Vaughan and Milton, was put on hold late in 2015 because of questions over the logic of building more highways, strong local voices are still pushing for it."
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One of the puzzling, and enduring paradoxes of traffic congestion, backed up by a century of empirical evidence, is that the more expressways that are built, the worse traffic congestion becomes.
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Highways are an extremely expensive, extremely low-density form of transportation that largely gives the illusion of transportation, rather than actual transportation.
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When it is next to impossible to obtain funding for public transit, flushing it down the drain on highways makes very little sense.
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In the past century, what solutions have been more successful?
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The solution to congestion walks, rides a bike, and runs on steel rails.