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So the Gardner will be funnelling 3 lanes into 2 until 2016, the DVP will be closed this weekend, the Pan Am games will be during the Gardner crunch down. You thought our mayor was on bad drugs. You should see our traffic planners.

Not sure about any formula car races but if enough people of any human race want it, they will shut down the Lakeshore for a festival.

Meanwhile, any contractor with a rusty pick up truck and a faded orange pylon that wants to offload some drywall can shut down a few lanes at whim anywhere.

Heading east west across the city it seems that any developer can commandeer a lane or sidewalk for a year or so to build a new condo on the old gas station sized lot. Do they get that space rent free because I need some storage space and want to put a 40 foot container in front of my house?

Queen's Quay, Front Street, any progress? I avoid the area.

Then there's the normal "I'll only be a few minutes" lane jammers holding up a few thousand people for a few minutes each.

Add in for the normal watermain breaks and pothole repairs and we're off to a fine summer.

Rant over.
 
That building west of yonge on queen's quay is ridiculous. They block the traffic all the time. One time, they stopped the traffic for awhile to back a dump truck in. After five maneuvers the driver almost got it in. Then the dump truck comes out again, some guy exits the site in his personal car and the whole backing in thing starts from the beginning. I could not believe that after they held up traffic for a while to back the truck in, it came out just to let some guy leave.

This bring up a question. Can a guy with a stop sign really stop traffic?

The gardiner thing... is ridiculous. The whole thing could be torn down and reconstructed in two years. Are there three shifts working? I bet not.
 
DVP exit going to 401 East was down to one lane last year, this year they are doing the other lane. Drove by on several weekends, no-one is working. I can fully understand if this was a minor road, but this is a main artery-high traffic road.
 
It's funny in Asian countries they do construction day and night to get the projects done as soon as possible. They have incredibly fast turn around time for projects. Things that take us months they do in less than a month. They never stop working on the project. A lot of times I notice a project starts and they start digging and when one part is done they keep the area blocked until the next part is ready to begin. I don't get it.

I just know that there is no hope. Blame the unions, contractors, budget hoarders etc...
 
LiNK666 said:
It's funny in Asian countries they do construction day and night to get the projects done as soon as possible. They have incredibly fast turn around time for projects. Things that take us months they do in less than a month. They never stop working on the project. A lot of times I notice a project starts and they start digging and when one part is done they keep the area blocked until the next part is ready to begin. I don't get it.

I just know that there is no hope. Blame the unions, contractors, budget hoarders etc...
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I ask myself the same question. My limited experience in masonry? Large slabs of concrete can take a month to cure.

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I have some experience working for TDSB. Actually it's a clean-up after TDSB's workers. The level of incompetence is unbelievable. No one cares. Seeing how city management is, I am surprised the roads are paved.
 
Just put up a toll, it will solve everything :happy6:
 
Toronto Sun reported that people ran out of gas on the Gardiner because they weren't prepared for the traffic back up.
 
See what it says under my avatar? Yea....exactly

I did a 100km loop around the city when going to school back in 2005ish. Etobicoke via Gardiner to Centennial College during morning rush hour, then Centennial College to Pearson Int via 401 during afternoon rush hour, then 427 back home at midnight. Two years of that **** has made me allergic to any and all traffic.

The worst part is that everyone KNOWS that all the work is ********. They are inconveniencing everyone to do band-aid solutions.
 
If I had to access the Gardiner on a daily basis, I would quit my job. Horrible.
I don't mind time in the car, but I have to be moving!!!
 
They could do the construction 24/7 for the same cost and employ more people, finish the job sooner and move onto the next......
 
They can build a Mcdonald or tims from ground up to opening in 1-2month.

Takes 6 months to fix a pot hole the size of a pop bottle. Even then it's only shovel some bags of home depot asphalt into it and wait for cars to compress/scatter it.

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So glad I don't live in the city anymore, went to school there back in 99 and stayed until 2004 and then got out, I'm in Barrie now and that is close enough, my in-laws live in Toronto so I still go back a lot but that is enough for me. I don't miss the traffic one bit.
 
Rob ford WAS trying to clean this up.. He got the ttc as essential service and privatized many garbage routes... Thats why they took him out Now he is gone...so back to 3 man pot hole fills and 2 year road repairs
And all the other goverment worker union worker BS
 
cbcanada said:
Rob ford WAS trying to clean this up.. He got the ttc as essential service and privatized many garbage routes... Thats why they took him out Now he is gone...so back to 3 man pot hole fills and 2 year road repairs
And all the other goverment worker union worker BS
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First of all he hasn't resigned or drooped out of the mayor race that i have herd yet and second...He smoked crack no one made him it wasn't a plot he made poor choices and he is paying for it don't blame other people
 
It took almost 2 HOURS from Dixie to Keele on the EB 401 tonight...I had to exit at Keele and take main roads to Scarborough or else I'd still be stuck in traffic. Legalize lane filtering!!!
 
Don't do this on a hot day with a full moon. Someone who is sitting in traffic for 2 hours and furious at missing their appointment for a prostate milking seeing a fast moving power ranger coming up from behind might decide to signal and move to the side just a touch at the last second. Why not? I remember when California used to have road rage incidents involving shooting.

The impact will be your fault as lane filtering is illegal, compounded by rear-ending the driver in front of you.

I understand why you want to, but it needs to be a societal agreement otherwise you are that self-entitled individual.

Don't endanger yourself. Road rage is real.
 
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