Grand River Transit Fantasy

[tomh009]

I don't think every area of the city needs to be within X minutes of a major highway. 

You are correct in that, and I didn't mean to imply such a requirement.

But the reality is that people living in the suburbs will drive to the highways.  Whether they get to those highways using other highways, arterial roads or neighbourhood streets depends on the urban planning and the decisions made about road transportation.  There is no east-west arterial connection between Beechwood/Clair Hills and Highway 85, and the north-south Ira Needles is already fairly busy.  Looking a decade or two into the future, where will the population growth be, and what is the right approach for managing the traffic to/from those areas?