Reece Martin tells it like it is in his recent post called, "Toronto: Congestion Isn't Going Away."
If we want people to feel less congested, they are going to have to get out of cars — and sadly sometimes onto crowded transit, but at least on transit we have a fighting chance of building the capacity so that congestion isn’t totally unbearable. The differential between the demand to use roads and the actual road space is so large that no matter what we do in the foreseeable future, the roads will always be busy, and even if we made it so that the auto fleet in the region barely grew at all (not going to happen), congestion would still be getting worse.
It's a perfect follow-up to my recent post about trains . And it's the reality we all need to accept if we are truly serious about managing congestion. It's time for some tough love, and for solutions over politics .