The Utah Hockey Club got the full Toronto experience Sunday night ahead of their first-ever matchup against the Maple Leafs—bumper-to-bumper traffic that forced the team to walk to the game.
“I think that’s a first for everyone. Never saw that before,” Utah defenceman Maveric Lamoureux tells the camera that documented the team’s stroll to Scotiabank Arena.
Lamoureux said the team’s bus was “not moving at all” in the Sunday evening traffic, just hours after the Santa Claus Parade and resulting road closures.
“So it’s pretty much the whole team walking the street,” he said, noting that they would probably miss their 5:15 p.m. pre-game meeting.
Whats more embarassing is that regular citizens have to deal with this shit tier traffic every day. (And by traffic, i mean all the drivers who collectively all decide to drive downtown and then complain there are too many cars on the road).
Willy Nylander takes transit to the arena all the time.
Oh yeah, and this is the same city that is planning on tearing up a bunch of bike lanes so that MORE drivers will bring their cars downtown. (Technically, its not the city’s decision…)
The sad part was the team was taking transit, of a sort. It was a charter bus, but it was still a bus, so it was one vehicle for a 30 or 40 people.
Clearly we need to remove the bike lanes clogging up the streets /s
Doug Ford is blaming bike lanes for the traffic, as if one more lane for cars in downtown Toronto will make it all better.
Just 1 more lane bro, it’ll totally fix the traffic bro…
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Toronto:
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1954:
- Population: 1.3M,
- Num of N-S Subways: 1
- Num of E-W Subways: 0
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1978:
- Population: 2.9M
- Num of N-S Subways: 1
- Num of E-W Subways: 1
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2002:
- Population: 4.7M
- Num of N-S Subways: 1
- Num of E-W Subways: 1.25
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2024:
- Population: 6.4M
- Num of N-S Subways: 1
- Num of E-W Subways: 1.25
We have increased our population density by orders of magnitude while building no new capacity to move people around.
In that time period we have extended our already overcrowded Yonge line, opened an express train to the airport, opened one street with a dedicated LRT corridor, and dug precisely zero new tunnels.
When you turn your city into a series of skyscrapers with thousands of people stacked on top of each other you need both trains and tunnels to actually move them around efficiently. Surface level roads will inherently clog.
I thought we dug a tunnel and then just filled it in, leaving all the tunnel drilling things down there as well
Sorry, you are correct, we did dig part of a tunnel exactly where we could use a tunnel, only to have a conservative government fill it in to “save money”.
Building bike lanes where they were sorely needed only to spend extra money to remove them is the same energy except there’s no savings, it’s purely a waste.
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Say it with me: There’s no solution to traffic except viable alternatives to driving.
