First in series: Gridlock on Toronto's Gardiner reaches tipping point

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2 ай бұрын

The latest round of repairs on the Gardiner Expressway slows commute to a standstill.
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@jptrainor 2 ай бұрын

Toronto traffic is the most soul destroying thing I've ever experienced.

@thejeffinvade Ай бұрын

The problem is the city continues to allow events to be held on lakeshore even when Gardiner is under construction. Last time I spend 50 mins just existing at Spadina because there are Sikhs indians parading on lakeshore.

@b30233 2 ай бұрын

I wish we had this same level of anger and news coverage on our transit systems. This wouldn't be a problem if we had viable alternatives to driving.

@quantumaraa169 Ай бұрын

Toronto is filled with nimbys who think ppl taking the train are poor and worse

@ChrisTheAppleOne Ай бұрын

100%. But… “Add one more lane!” “One more lane will fix it!” 😂

@ericdeangelis7496 2 ай бұрын

13 kms?? Get an E-Bike bro. You'd be there in less than 10

@thisspacenotforrent 2 ай бұрын

In winter?

@ericdeangelis7496 2 ай бұрын

@@thisspacenotforrent No.

@shellderp Ай бұрын

@@thisspacenotforrent yes

@davidajzhang Ай бұрын

What if it rains?

@egorkatkov1433 Ай бұрын

Wear a coat

@VictorPaixao4fun 2 ай бұрын

The absurd of a clogged driveway... Why nobody talks about the absurd of (like that nurse) not be able to use a decent commute system instead of driving 15 km per day to work?

@user-ov4mk9ox8y 2 ай бұрын

America CLEARLY demonstrated fifty years ago that just building MORE lanes/expessway doesn't make commuting faster.

@arcum Ай бұрын

Then explain how closing a lane makes it take 5x longer?

@thejeffinvade Ай бұрын

I was in Boston for my studies 15 years ago, the traffic was horrible. I went back last year, the traffic is significantly better after they spend the money to widen the I-93/Big Dig

@firstname8559 Ай бұрын

Just take the bus right

@firstname8559 Ай бұрын

@@arcum💯 - obviously they can’t

@lookforaniket 2 ай бұрын

Canada mostly sucks at large infrastructure projects (even just maintenance)

@marclandreville6367 2 ай бұрын

8 years to build a 4 stop subway line in Toronto. 3 years to double the Guanzhou subway from 6 to 12 lines (not stations). Go figure.

@flyaphs 2 ай бұрын

Other countries: 3 months to complete Canada: 3 years + delays, Contractors paid based on time they can close off the highway

@Wl0006 2 ай бұрын

Construction is just extremely slow in Canada. Other countries would push the construction ahead and find this critical to complete asap.

@zachweyrauch2988 2 ай бұрын

There are no other countries similar to Canada. (Australia is likely the closest comparison check what their traffic issues are like)

@mediaburn2 Ай бұрын

Canada is to corupt to such a thing. Better to have 5 guys working to retirement on each project.

@AussieBodybuilder 2 ай бұрын

Toronto should build 100 more condos in the gridlock area 😂

@theastuteangler 2 ай бұрын

dont forget to deny any new building of highways into, out of, and around downtown for about three quarters of a century.

@CritCommanda 2 ай бұрын

City Hall: We're on it Secretely: We're gonna make so much tax money *hand-shakes all around*

@dougtheslug6435 2 ай бұрын

@@theastuteangler Lol....ya sure that's what it is. You could put a highway on top of the buildings....roof top to roof top. Never at any point has there been more space available for another top side highway in the city, just like every city pretty much in the world. What they need is a new subway under the Gardener from Oakville to Cherry beach.

@KardiFan2000 2 ай бұрын

@@dougtheslug6435 He has a point. Montreal has a highway tunnel built right under their downtown core... Toronto should look at doing the same so that everyone doesn't have to use two highway lanes to get in and out of the city.

@bludhoundbludhound3575 Ай бұрын

Toronto is one of the world's NIMBY centres. Don't build those highways getting into the city. Don't build those subway lines. And here we are, relying on a crumbling highway as a critical entrance and exit to the downtown core.

@user-vp2fc4pd8f 2 ай бұрын

Take transit…I don’t understand it

@zachweyrauch2988 2 ай бұрын

Transit is neglected in canada. It's basically just in cities and only Toronto and Vancouver have decent access.

@sirxavior1583 2 ай бұрын

Exactly. The 24hrs Queen St and Dundas street cars go right through Leslieville, most of the the residential areas are within a 10-17min walk from where the street car stops. The Queen Street street car will stop directly at St. Joseph's health center. where he works and is a direct route. it doesn't make any sense.

@Euphorica 2 ай бұрын

That is NOT viable solution

@alexg9727 2 ай бұрын

its worse most of the time too

@alexg9727 2 ай бұрын

detour after detour cancelled waiting waiting. And then your on a bus stuck in traffic anyways. How is it a solution at all?? youre wrong

@paulplace7164 2 ай бұрын

13km Why not bike? Public transit?

@eufrosniad994 2 ай бұрын

Um, the average cycling speed is around 20 km/h. At that speed, 13 km comes up to around 40 minutes. One would be more exhausted too. So might as well drive at that point.

@iiuh1 Ай бұрын

@eufrosniad994 who gets exhausted riding 13km wtf? 40 min bike vs hour car ride is a no Brainer

@eufrosniad994 Ай бұрын

@@iiuh1 Um, it is always important to judge these topics based not on your personal experience or those you know, BUT based on general performance. In that regard, a 40 min bike ride before work on a hot day like today would be something most would not want to go through. If you are the exception, bravo and just make sure you do wear proper skin protection though.

@iiuh1 Ай бұрын

@eufrosniad994 I mean 40 min is being generous and would be a pretty leisure pace. Not to mention on a cheap e-bike that would barely be any exertion to go 13km Dude also works at a hospital which I would imagine has shower facilities. To each their own I guess, but I just find it very odd this guy gets his little segment on the news here because he chooses to take the worst form of transportation 13km across the city and complains that it takes him an hour.

@LastlyMore 2 ай бұрын

I drove to downtown Toronto last Sunday it was a horrific experience. I never really go downtown. But that had to be the worst driving experience I've ever had. I'm going to avoid Toronto like a plague.

@friendlygiant2502 2 ай бұрын

How abt closing gardiner completely for 6-8 months and getting this done once it for all, instead of dealing with crawling traffic for 3 yrs...

@e5b7-wr811ouhih 2 ай бұрын

"just one more lane..."

@patientzero291 2 ай бұрын

Imagine all the employees were to come back office at once. Right now it's 2 to 3 days on office for some .

@sirxavior1583 2 ай бұрын

If he lives in Leslieville and works at St. Joseph health center why doesn't he just take the Queen St. Street car. It's a direct route?

@B.D.F. 2 ай бұрын

An alternative to driving? Madness! We didn’t pave paradise and put up a parking lot just to use efficient and effective public transit!

@johnny9072 2 ай бұрын

That would be too easy, best to moan to the camera and sit in traffic for 2 hours a day.......

@Euphorica 2 ай бұрын

The street car has to divert due to construction and is also stuck in the same traffic

@CaptApril123 2 ай бұрын

I could bike that in 30min

@CyborganizdInc.-gc5so 2 ай бұрын

@@CaptApril123 but you'd show up all sweaty and st:nky.

@jeffclark5268 2 ай бұрын

Maybe retake a train, a bus, a subway….

@leonardmacaulay9833 2 ай бұрын

Has public transit stopped in the GTA ??

@write2nick 2 ай бұрын

TTC has so many delays daily. Yesterday was the worst.

@rdysetgoo 2 ай бұрын

TTC no longer feels safe

@govegan6112 2 ай бұрын

Thank you Sir for your service.

@darkglass3011 Ай бұрын

Notice over the past few years there are more SUVs and trucks on the road. They're bigger and heavier, which means there will be worse traffic congestion since they take up more space and accelerated road damage which will necessitate more frequent and longer repair. Desentivize the use of these vehicles since they're contributing to most of the problems.

@firstname8559 Ай бұрын

More punishment isn’t how you treat your residents well, with respect and dignity. If in other countries the roads can be rebuilt much quicker - months not years - and with better material to withstand heavier vehicles then why can’t we? And if you’re talking about pickups you should look at the impact of trailer tractors and larger eg dump trucks vs suv and pickups. Not even the same ballpark.

@islamicfukistanisocialistr2758 2 ай бұрын

These repairs only take couple days in Asia but it takes couple years in Canada.

@XMG3 2 ай бұрын

in BC vancouver here, construction on major traffic routes takes up at 8 years. Currently granville / broadway, and winston / bainbridge road block constructions have been on going for 6+ years, I rarely see anyone working, this is the efficiency of Canada

@XRealEstate777 2 ай бұрын

what's sadder is that even with the gridlock, Public Transit could take 50% longer for those who are forced to drive to work.

@govegan6112 2 ай бұрын

This lady is retired. She has an extra half hour to see her grandkids. These ppl are spoiled.

@steve11263 2 ай бұрын

Boomers being gone deaf

@James-nv1wf 2 ай бұрын

@@steve11263 Delusional and Entitled. Middle isle Walmart zombies.

@mr8966 2 ай бұрын

Tipping point? When you see two guys with hammers for 6 years working from 10 am to 3 pm what’s the tip?

@CyborganizdInc.-gc5so 2 ай бұрын

Just the tip, she said.

@CyborganizdInc.-gc5so 2 ай бұрын

Time to tip your drivers more!

@mediaburn2 Ай бұрын

Did you try giving them a 30% tip?

@CyborganizdInc.-gc5so Ай бұрын

@@mediaburn2 To -Ensure- Insure Prompt Service?

@kristoferleslie1850 2 ай бұрын

Take the train?

@planetvegan7843 2 ай бұрын

Live near your work?

@bonbonvegabon 2 ай бұрын

Too easy for whining cons

@capertain16325 Ай бұрын

The TTC subway is decent in terms of service, but on the GTHA scale, it is very mediocre.

@hongpingmike 2 ай бұрын

Toronto is at least an hour away from Toronto.

@gururulez2009 Ай бұрын

Heheheh and then cries

@ergosteur Ай бұрын

The fact that someone from Leslieville’s best option to get to the west side of the city is taking the gardener is insane.

@James-nv1wf 2 ай бұрын

Hahahahah...talk to those in Hamilton working in Toronto for 9am. 2 hours at 7am, 40 minutes at 3am. Perhaps I should leave earlier.

@XRealEstate777 2 ай бұрын

remember when they wanted to tear down the Gardiner because the traffic impact would be minimal?

@adityat4706 2 ай бұрын

Why not use public transport?

@jovo55 2 ай бұрын

How would it be any faster lol

@bycuritiba 2 ай бұрын

@@jovo55 idk i think moving is faster than not

@zachweyrauch2988 2 ай бұрын

@@jovo55bus lanes.

@jovo55 2 ай бұрын

@@bycuritibasubway doesn't go to St. Joseph's, it takes way longer on public transit than driving

@jovo55 2 ай бұрын

@@zachweyrauch2988where are there bus lanes around St. Joseph's lol

@andrewmccoll1582 2 ай бұрын

Why the city needs more east-west transit. Almost needed is a subway line on many more major east-west roads, e.g. Lawrence, Sheppard (Extended), Finch, Steeles...

@vincentvega7438 2 ай бұрын

They close lanes on the highway for months, but no work is happening in those lanes

@ShadowEagle5219 2 ай бұрын

not to mention no one lets anyone in on the highway. i have to constantly cut my car in just so i can switch a lane. def not for the weak

@FocusBeDrifting 2 ай бұрын

being in traffic enrages me, i avoid it like the plague, but im in ottawa :p

@user-ov4mk9ox8y 2 ай бұрын

Forty years ago our Loomis Depot in Toronto was 1/4 the size of Vancouver, and had FOUR TIMES the accidents!! NADA has changed??

@MrBobbyBrown2006 2 ай бұрын

Toronto and the GTA is just a terrible area to get around

@thejeffinvade Ай бұрын

@JasenMacTurdsen 2 ай бұрын

Why not consider taking public transit? I thought toronto had quite robust public transit system? Especially coming along the shore with GO train.

@Gago_ka143 Ай бұрын

No construction no corruption

@pookybear4659 2 ай бұрын

Now you know what its like when Im trying to get home on a Friday during the summer and our roads are all jammed because of all the cityiots are coming up to cottage country!! My drive was 25 mins now its double.

@zachweyrauch2988 2 ай бұрын

Move further afield. Until you get to a community that limits road development the yuppies will keep coming.

@SharingAccount-lw9gw Ай бұрын

RTO is so great. Show up to an office and all meetings are still virtual. They need to reduce RTO days and rotate it so that businesses can still survive and traffic is reduced. Also someone needs to create a proper bypass that isn't 2 lanes!!!!!!

@firstname8559 Ай бұрын

Keep paying your taxes and keep quiet.

@SharingAccount-lw9gw Ай бұрын

@firstname8559 you should take your own advice.

@firstname8559 Ай бұрын

@@SharingAccount-lw9gw sorry I was being sarcastic. Those who work are the farm animals of those who need not.

@t.j.henderson1234 Ай бұрын

This is what car dependancy looks like

@Brownshabsfan Ай бұрын

I work all over southern ontario in construction. I live an hour outside of downtown Toronto. When i have to work downtown some days it can be 3-4 hours to get home. Its not even worth my time really. I question my life everytime i gave to do it.

@misterfunnybones Ай бұрын

If you cater to cars, then you get more cars. If you make it wider, bigger, larger, then induced demand will fill it. Example: Katy Freeway

@nicholas2275 2 ай бұрын

An hour, oh my

@ScottG0617 2 ай бұрын

Imagine come winter time.... oh the fun sitting in your car, heat blasting just burning gasoline as quickly as you can fill your tank... dont forget that gas price increase 😂😂😂

@Goose82. 2 ай бұрын

Isn’t there a subway or Go train? Maybe even the UP express. If you start after 6am and live in the city you have many options

@stephenfermoyle4578 Ай бұрын

oh Brandon, there a quite a few shortcuts to get there....being a Princess? you knew it was coming

@firstname8559 Ай бұрын

In 2027 they’ll close the next section down for another 3-5 years and repeat for the whole gardener. Finally to repeat the process. It’s corruption and disdain not incompetence. They hate you.

@thisspacenotforrent 2 ай бұрын

Olivia Chow's Toronto = GRIDLOCK!

@chotepandit6359 2 ай бұрын

It's not the Gardiner construction but the idiots at city hall approving the closure of king st w at dufferin, construction on Richmond, yonge, bloor west, Adelaide westand many more all at once.

@mike-we8pb 2 ай бұрын

Eglinton LRT still not open. This is Toronto.

@gaetanomagnifico1836 2 ай бұрын

Mayor Chow is on top of things no need to get angry it's only 3 years of inconvenience.

@Armor23OnPatrol 2 ай бұрын

DVP and Gardiner recently got uploaded to provincial responsibility so Doug ford is involved too

@theastuteangler 2 ай бұрын

lol how dumb you gotta be to blame 7 decades of neglect on the current mayor lmao

@ChrisCaledon 2 ай бұрын

Meanwhile, the construction crew appears to be stuck in traffic and will be a little late.

@midnightrambler7716 2 ай бұрын

Google comic Ben Bankas doing Chow impersonation…hilarious!

@davidkuitunen5286 2 ай бұрын

Only 13kms? just bike lol 😂

@AshgabatKetchumov Ай бұрын

Roncesvalles (where St Joseph's is) should get a GO Train stop.

@firstname8559 Ай бұрын

Sure, another 8-12 years construction and more road delays…

@ZoomZoomMX3 2 ай бұрын

This is nothing my high school bus rode was 1.5 hours each way. Try living around eastof Algonquin park Toronto gets everything sock of it. Canada is so much more then just Toronto

@129jasper1 2 ай бұрын

Yes, rural school bus routes sucked, but did you go a lot farther than 13 Km?

@raylo1913 2 ай бұрын

Toronto has the worst traffic

@quackywhackityphillyb.3005 2 ай бұрын

Public transit, driving, and biking all suck in the gtha... "get ontario moving"

@lapraxi 2 ай бұрын

Get used to it

@ShatteredCiv 2 ай бұрын

Poor lady on the 30th floor.

@iiuh1 Ай бұрын

The ER nurse has a 13km commute to the hospital. Spends an hour on the Gardiner... Wtf just take a bicycle, it's like a half hour bike ride, why would you sit in traffic for an hour to go 13km

@misterfunnybones Ай бұрын

Could be a nightmare in Winter. It could be done, but it becomes extremely dangerous. I only ride Spring, Summer, & Fall.

@arunsubramanian7949 2 ай бұрын

Make public transit free in Toronto

@streetrunner8273 Ай бұрын

Yall playing, telling me you dont know back roads

@yeyeTF2 2 ай бұрын

one more lane bro

@jackson6485 2 ай бұрын

Take public transit, save the gas and money idling a car in traffic, on top of parking fees in Downtown.

@Toronto_Luddite 2 ай бұрын

Car infrastructure eventually kills itself and the drivers. Maybe the city shouldn't have sprawled so bad.

@Salisky 2 ай бұрын

Pro tip: buy a motorcycle and lane split to save 30 minutes on your city commute lmao

@joshforrest1778 Ай бұрын

Simple: corruption in construction

@Canadian-Boi- 2 ай бұрын

Why would anyone choose to live there...

@susanb4816 2 ай бұрын

Commute.

@Morgatronbot 2 ай бұрын

should probably interview someone with a truck full of tools or van full of kids instead of a grandma who's out 1/2 hour and a dude with backpack.

@zachweyrauch2988 2 ай бұрын

Tool guy doesn't care unless his A/C is busted. He gets paid to surf socials and listen to the radio. Person with kids complains about fairness while blatantly flaunting the ease of lifestyle they have. There is almost no urban canadian that will say a news safe thing but also has the covered issue. Toronto is too different

@johnpat3622 2 ай бұрын

Two words: Big Dig.

@ms22784 2 ай бұрын

Maybe leave for work earlier if you love your job so much. Or take public trans What is the average commute time in Ontario? I feel like he is still below the average

@firstname8559 Ай бұрын

What’s the average household income? Maybe you should take that much and the rest goes to taxes.

@XTransitMasterX Ай бұрын

Just Park your Vehicle at a TTC Parking Lot and Take the Subway Downtowne rather.

@firstname8559 Ай бұрын

Can everyone do this?

@wclark3196 Ай бұрын

That's not gridlock.

@gggfff685 2 ай бұрын

Need more rail transit! All the condos will make the gardener useless eventually.

@JohnDelong-qm9iv 2 ай бұрын

Increasing the carbon tax will fix this!

@americaofthenorth655 2 ай бұрын

Look at Boston and see if the big dig might work here.

@workstationmark4103 2 ай бұрын

Free public transit for commuters

@chrisbarnes2823 2 ай бұрын

The more roads you build the more traffic you get.

@o1ecypher 2 ай бұрын

build another highway above that one

@James-nv1wf 2 ай бұрын

Yes! like NY...been saying that for years.

@KardiFan2000 2 ай бұрын

Toronto severely needs highway tunnels, as there's nowhere to build above ground in this city.

@paulwhite3637 2 ай бұрын

Well maybe if you live in Leslieville you should take the TTC, and have one less car causing traffic chaos. I mean it’s not like millions of dollars a year in taxes aren’t being spent for you spoilt Torontonians to have easier access to public transit or anything.

@martinjackson2431 2 ай бұрын

Just one more road, that will fix it. Try promoting better community transit 🙄

@bonbonvegabon 2 ай бұрын

Cons hate transit. Let them suf*er in their cars. No pity

@B.D.F. 2 ай бұрын

20 minutes just to drive 13 km on a highway? I used to commute 15 km in about 12 minutes, in a city, with lights every few hundred metres. 20 minutes for 13 km on a highway with no lights is ridiculous.

@mcphersonjohnathon 2 ай бұрын

Toronto is a dumpster fire

@jamesh2459 2 ай бұрын

Trudeau spent all our money with nothing to show.

@nelsonsousa9801 2 ай бұрын

You choose the life with cars when you bought one. Suck it up or find another life

@susanb4816 2 ай бұрын

Live in a highrise in a congested area and complain about congestion Sheesh

@Mnedho_Vision2050 2 ай бұрын

just take 15 mins for Albertans to move from work to home.

@danc2426 2 ай бұрын

Hilarious…I used to drive that for 2 yrs TO to Waterloo…then TOronto Airport to Waterloo for 6 years…115 then 100 km each way. Suck it up , quit or rent a room folks !

@hchalz 2 ай бұрын

Can't the Canadian government charge a new tax or fees and make some money out of this?

@calvincalvinify 2 ай бұрын

I drive 3.5 hours a day to build homes you think one hour is bad. Lmfao this country is honestly a dumpster fire now.

@jovo55 2 ай бұрын

That's on you though, move closer

@firstname8559 Ай бұрын

Was it a 10 min drive when you started that became 60+ for 3 years when in other countries it might be less than 3 months?

@MrMannyhw 2 ай бұрын

Premier and Mayor incompetent

@JConway416 2 ай бұрын

trudeaus Canada 🇨🇦

@zachweyrauch2988 2 ай бұрын

Yup. Auto centric planning just like the cons. Vote centre or right and enjoy the traffic.

@JConway416 2 ай бұрын

@zachweyrauch2988 nope mass immigration with no infrastructure to accommodate brought this on, you can blame the liberals. But nice try.

@JConway416 2 ай бұрын

@zachweyrauch2988 mass immigration with no infrastructure to accommodate brought this on, you can blame the liberals. But nice try.

@JConway416 2 ай бұрын

@@zachweyrauch2988 trudeaus Canada 🇨🇦

@B.D.F. 2 ай бұрын

Ford’s Ontario 🇨🇦

@randomrazr 2 ай бұрын

well trudea imports 600k indians and most will live in GTA

@yukaira 2 ай бұрын

boo hoo you live in toronto just take transit

@delftfietser 2 ай бұрын

Unless transit doesn't get you where and when you need to go both ways. Or if your tram route in Amsterdam is down for the same time and now you have to bike, doubling your commute time, and your knee hurts from a prior bike crash.