Survey says: Bottlenecks, construction top complaints in city survey on Toronto traffic woes
Posted March 27, 2013 10:20 pm.
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TORONTO, Ont. – When you sit bumper to bumper in traffic in the downtown core, you wonder why it is so congested.
The city wants to know, too, so they have launched a survey on downtown traffic.
The survey is part of a Toronto study that aims to find solutions to the congestion in the area between Bathurst and Jarvis streets south of Queen Street.
The city held a drop-in event at Metro Hall Wednesday to encourage participation in the survey and garner traffic feedback.
So far, bottlenecks caused by public transit, parking and construction are the top complaints
Const. Clint Stibbe said while some traffic woes are unavoidable, there is room for change elsewhere.
“Things that we can change are the things like illegal parking, pedestrians stepping out when they’re not supposed to, cyclists perhaps going the wrong way down a one-way street,” he said.
One of the top complaints is bottlenecks caused by public transit vehicles, according to the survey that went live Friday.
But Stibbe said without public transit, it would be much worse.
“Anytime you have one streetcar, you’ve got 30, 40, 50 cars that are no longer on the road because it means people are taking public transit,” he said.
“Imagine if there was no public transit and we had the existing infrastructure — nobody would be going anywhere.”
The survey will remain active until April 10.
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