Re: [OT] Ontario's Main Street

On 2025-05-19 1:55 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:

Mon, 19 May 2025 17:16:41 -0000 (UTC), Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com>:

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.

 

Not bad.. I just looked up I-285 running around Atlanta and according
to Google AI it says about two million people a day use the highway.
Which I can believe.

 It's a circle bypass; no one is driving end-to-end, not that it ends.
The maximum load point is 243,000 vehicles per day, although one article
suggested 300,000 VPD, hard to believe. Compare Tri-State Tollway, the
Chicago bypass, which is 120,000 to 185,000 VPD.
 

. . .

While there are people that drive the 401 from end to end - one such truck driver appears in the comments - most of us only drive part of the highway when we're travelling. I use it to get to - or through - Toronto and I'm sure many others do likewise. People in Toronto use it to get around town as a local highway and may only get farther on rare occasions.
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Rhino