90 points

Btw for those initially confused like me, GTA stands for Greater Toronto Area.

Nobody expects bad traffic in the next Grand Theft Auto game just yet.

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7 points

Real hero of the thread

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6 points

I grew up in southern Ontario, and it took me an embarrassing amount of time to figure this out. I heard the acronym daily as my parents listened to CFRB, but it didn’t click until I was almost 20.

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46 points

Just one more lane and it will be fixed, once and for all, pinky promise!

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15 points

I got a fever… and the only prescription is more cowbell lanes

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6 points

the 90s called etc

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35 points

Fuck you peasants, believe or not, still no public transit.

Get into you wage wagon, drive to your wage cage and get back to cucking for daddy

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TBF, Ontario (and most importantly, Toronto) are going through the biggest transit expansion in all of North America. For those unaware, I’ll list some of the projects by transit agency:

  • TTC (Toronto local transit) has a new metro (the Ontario Line/eventually Line 3), and 2 new LRT/light-metro lines under construction
  • GO (region transit) is undergoing a huge expansion where they’re increasing frequency and electrifying the lines, while also doing a bunch of smaller projects to decrease travel times and points of conflict
  • Mississauga/Brampton have the Hurontario LRT under construction (also owned by GO/Metrolinx, but local transit, so I separated it)
  • Hamilton’s LRT is in planning
  • ION LRT in Waterloo is planning Stage 2

There are too many bike infrastructure projects to mention, and a lot of new urbanist developments.

At the same time, the provincial government also has a number of projects that are crazy car-centric, like Highway 413, so it’s not all good.

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hopefully it works better than california and UK high speed rail lol

i have zero faith in any of the “countries” to deliver any public works projec on time, within budget and/or for it to actually work.

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5 points

Pretty much all public works projects go over budget. Pretty much all private private projects also go over budget. However, people only complain about public transit projects going over budget. There are some legitimate reasons for this, like lack of institutional knowledge, but I think people hyper-fixate on public transit while roads “just have to be built, whatever the cost.”

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Love how you omitted Canada’s capital and their rail system of complete failures and fuckups from your list.

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That’s not a project in progress, so I didn’t include it. It’s also in a completely different region than the GTA, while all those projects are in the GTHA (except maybe Waterloo).

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23 points

almost as if addressing the traffic by creating infrastructure instead of the need for traffic with mixed-use neighborhoods isn’t the right approach

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I mean that’s why you boost a stunt plane and fly across the map.

Wait. Who’s adding more traffic into GTA anyway?

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