Re: [OT] Ontario's Main Street

Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

I just came across an interesting video about the 401, Ontario's main
street. The presenter is an American so it's interesting to hear his
point of view as opposed to those of locals. He points out that the 401
is the busiest highway in North America, busier than anything in NYC,
LA, Chicago or any other large city in the US of A.

I looked it up. In Chicago, the Kennedy (a friend of mine calls it the
Ted) carries 327,000 vehicles per day. This runs northwest. The Dan Ryan
carries over 300,000 per day. Both were built assuming less than half
that demand, hahahahahahahahaha.

He covers the 401
from its beginning in Windsor (just across from Detroit) to the Quebec
border.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqyRmAVmUM0 [17 minutes]

He does a good job in a relatively short amount of time. If you're
curious to see what this road looks like or why it is so congested in
parts of Toronto, this video will explain that.

Same thing every expressway in Chicago is congested: Loss of freight rail
capacity. Let's shoot ourselves in the foot.