For some reason they feel that giving special privileges to carpooling vehicles is going to solve gridlock unlike, say, building new roads. And perhaps in a perfect world that would happen. Unfortunately it appears they have decided to throw common sense out the window simply because of the connection the term has with Mike Harris.
The final nail in that coffin: the HOV lanes being built on the QEW.
The QEW is probably the one highway most in need of more lanes. Anybody who has driven the QEW during rush hour dreads the next trip. What is basically a twenty minute trip between where Highway 403 connects with the QEW and then breaks off again drags out to a full one hour.
The brilliance of the MTO under Dalton McGuinty thinks that building HOV lanes is going to solve it. And perhaps Westbound the HOV lanes might work. But whoever decided that HOV lanes on the Eastbound QEW really needs their head checked.
The HOV lanes are being installed roughly where the 403 merges with the QEW. That's fine since any traffic using the HOV lanes will have the ability to get on at any time. The problem is that the HOV lane ends where the 403 breaks off of the QEW again.
The HOV lanes are on the North side of the highway.
The 403 exit is on the South side of the highway.
This basically means that any HOV traffic that is to use the 403 will have to cross over four to five lanes of traffic to get to the exit! This is going to have the effect of actually worsening the gridlock beside the Ford plant at the QEW/403 branching.
Seriously... do people have to fail IQ tests to get a job designing the roads for the MTO? I'd really like to see the look on the Minister of Transportation's face when he realizes the complete SNAFU his incompetence has allowed to develop.
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Come on this is after all the McAsswipe scumbags you are referring to, no brains and dumb as tits on a bull.
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