>>1429559Man, I used to live in London (Ontario) and this kind of shit drove me crazy. The traffic situation in that city was way worse than it needed to be. Partially because there were only two arterial roads that crossed the river in the north end of the city. This meant a ton of traffic, including bus traffic, was forced to route through a narrow, 90-year-old bridge that ran through the university campus and was shared with bicycles. Riding or driving across that bridge was a harrowing experience. And because the bridge was university property, they were responsible for maintaining a road that was subject to a shitload of municipal through-traffic. Just a little bit to the north, there was another concession road that was broken by the river, and numerous plans to build a bridge and take traffic away from the university. But the locals fought hard against "destruction of local habitat"- ie, about 15x200 metres of forest. More likely was that they didn't want their precious cul-de-sac turning into the through road it was meant to be. They would rather that university students be tailgated by angry commuters.
Most of the city's bus routes also ran through another narrow, two-lane road in the downtown. There was a proposal to move them literally one block to the north and south, onto one-way streets with two lanes and much more space. This was also met with stiff resistance from transit users, because they were literally too lazy to walk an extra few metres.
https://www.london.ca/newsroom/Documents/TransitBusesOffDundas.pdfI now live in Toronto, but it's not like it's much better. The city is choked with traffic and is still operating on a mass transit network that hasn't fundamentally changed since the 1970s, when there were half as many people. And then when the premier comes along and says he's going to build more mass transit, pic related happens.
