Highway 401 Widening - Highway 8 to Townline Road

[jeffster]

No imagination is needed to understand that mobility is not, and never will be, the same without driving. Not even close. I'll give you 3 personal examples:

I think I'd agree with Dan that you have a lack of imagination here. Why? because you don't see to even have thought of the option of giving the money for the 401 widening (and other similar road projects) given over to bettering public transit options so that there wouldn't be the delays you speak of.

No matter how much money you put into transit, you're not going ever, ever, have transit that is even close to convenient as a car. People do value time. I have an elderly parent to take care of. I have a disabled daughter to take care of (and she can't ride transit either way - imagination or not, I have no control over that).

One of the biggest issues with transit is that it is slow -- even if I had zero waiting to do during the entire route, it's still going to be significantly longer. This is why people drive. This is why people took used horse and buggy. We have never had a time in our civilization that people weren't using quick methods of transportation. It's not new.

Funny how you say that I have no imagination, but you can't even give a single example how you can make transit effective, nor how much it would cost -- and inexpensive for the end user, for example, me taking the family down to Grimsby. for example, to visit family.

Show me. Rather than insult me and say I have no imagination. Good grief.

Tell you what: plan out a trip from Sweetbriar and Ruskview in Kitchener to Morrison Crescent in Grimsby. Tell me the cost for 4 people, and the total time. For a car, it's 17 litres of gas, and about 2 hours.

And please tell me how much we'd have to spend on transit to make it usable, 24/7.