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Ontario added 134 km of lanes to Highway 401. Its key bottleneck didn’t get better (globalnews.ca)

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[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Wouldn't decentralizing to the point that traffic is relieved also have the effect of massively devaluing the astronomically expensive real estate at the Centre of the Universe? Owned by the most powerful entities in the country...

[–] dankm@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm failing to see the downside.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago

The downside is the impracticality. The people who stand to lose from property devaluation are the same people who decide policy. How are you going to convince them to give up their property values for the benefit of their commuting workers??