Personally I think it’s great that the area north of the Gardiner has been transformed into a sports and entertainment centre. This week it was identified as one of the worst congestion areas in the city, a designation that could apply to just about everything from Spadina to Jarvis. Just to make life easier, Bremner Ave., across from the ACC entrance, is being turned into a new mammoth condo zone leading to the Rogers Centre, where the Blue Jays play.Īll to be served by the one lousy little exit at York, and the already impassable one at Spadina, which has been sprinkled with stoplights coordinated to ensure permanent gridlock. The single short stretch of York between the railway tracks and the Gardiner - barely a block long - now has three condos, and office building, a supermarket, a liquor store and a giant bar, not to mention the Air Canada Centre where, I hear, there can be occasional large events that attract a lot of traffic.
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Drivers simply stop wherever they want and leave the vehicle behind while they head off to wherever, turning two lanes into one and doubling the challenge to any poor sod who is just trying to get from Front to Lakeshore. There are signs against parking, but apparently every delivery van, mini-bus, courier service and taxi is exempted from paying any attention. You get off at the same three exits, which lead to the same three narrow streets, which now pass through three semi-permanent construction zones.
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Yet the city has done nothing, in 40 years, to try even slightly to allow for the increase.
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There is probably a web site somewhere that has calculated how much more traffic there is trying to get in and out of central Toronto than there used to be before the condos came, but at a guess, I’d say it’s a factor of a gazillion or so. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.