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Article: They didn't add any lanes in Toronto, just to outlying areas where they claim traffic was improved. Toronto traffic still miserable after nothing was done there.
Seriously, if this is costing us 11 billion a day in economic damage, get more people working from home. The solution is so blindingly obvious. It saves money and can be done overnight. Fuck, we are a stupid bunch of apes.
Wouldn't decentralizing to the point that traffic is relieved also have the effect of massively devaluing the astronomically expensive real estate at the Centre of the Universe? Owned by the most powerful entities in the country...
I'm failing to see the downside.
The downside is the impracticality. The people who stand to lose from property devaluation are the same people who decide policy. How are you going to convince them to give up their property values for the benefit of their commuting workers??