09-25-2024, 03:32 PM
(09-25-2024, 01:57 PM)bravado Wrote: Has Doug Ford finally lost what’s left of his mind? What is genuinely in the water in Etobicoke?
https://globalnews.ca/news/10773679/onta...doug-ford/
The Ontario government announced plans to explore whether tunnelling under a major highway, an idea Premier Doug Ford first mused about when he was a Toronto city councillor, is possible. The government delivered the concept at a news conference near Highway 401 in Etobicoke on Wednesday morning, pledging to conduct a feasibility study of whether a new expressway could be tunnelled beneath the existing route.
“We’re experts at tunnelling,” Ford said. “And once a feasibility study comes back, then we’ll move it forward. I always believe, never take the tunnelling machines out of the ground — just keep tunnelling.”
I am amazed how we managed to elect this idiot into office. He says they'll conduct a feasibility study and you can bet he'll somehow make it come back saying it's a perfect idea. The cost of tunneling the 401 would be absolutely insane. Not only would you need to still have bridges over the Humber, Don, Etobicoke Creek, you'll need emergency entrances and exits all along in case chaos ensues inside which is inevitable, plus you're going to have to redo a pile of bridges because the footings would land in the way of this new tunnel.
The Big Dig in Boston cost 22 or so billion dollars, 12.6 km of road, about half of that in tunnels, so obviously its not gonna be a direct split but lets say the tunnels cost 2 billion per km, reasonably they cost more, the 401 from Mississauga to Scarborough is 57km, that's 104 billion dollar's and we know it's going to be way more than that.
Plus where is Ford expecting to get the money from? He can pay for Hamiltons LRT, YNSE, Sheppard extension, ION phase 2, Hurontario into Brampton, and a pile and a half more projects which would serve more people then tunneling the damn 401.