General Road and Highway Discussion

[ijmorlan]

Maybe the plan is to do a feasibility study, publicize how much it would cost, and then use that to make some other project more palatable.

I have to believe it would be cheaper to buy back the 407 than it would be to build this tunnel.

Buying back the 407 wouldn’t increase capacity. Reducing tolls might slightly increase the amount of the capacity that is used (if the tolls are currently set such that demand is suppressed below the maximum capacity), but it can’t go above the total capacity of the highway. In particular, eliminating the tolls (which is even more stupid than continuing to provide free highways all over the place to everybody) would not free up much space on other roads.