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Old Posted Aug 6, 2014, 4:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Crawford View Post
There are basically three freeways in Toronto- the 401, the Don Valley and the Gardiner. For a North American city, that's an incredibly low number.

You are talking about freeways way the hell out in the sticks.
Toronto learned from what Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and Boston did wrong.

And stopped building freeways near the urban core, yet kept improving them, and, did build the great 401 (one of the best huge freeways anywhere).
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Good read on relationship between increasing number of freeway lanes and traffic

http://www.vtpi.org/gentraf.pdf
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