Penalosa, Tory’s most high-profile election challenger, would revert to a plan recommended by city staff — turning the Gardiner east of Jarvis Street into a boulevard, freeing up land for a new community.
“It’s time to say it was a huge mistake. We need to tear down the Gardiner,” Penalosa told reporters in a Distillery District parking lot with a sparsely travelled stretch of Gardiner behind him. “No civilized cities are doing elevated expressways,” because they don’t solve congestion, have a huge environmental cost and lock up valuable land, Penalosa added.
After bruising debate, city council narrowly voted on 2015 to simply rebuild the crumbling elevated section east of Jarvis Street. Tory, who cited a University of Toronto study warning of longer traffic delays than forecast by city experts, came back with the costlier plan to move the section to free up some land.
Penalosa noted that the city has not yet awarded contracts for construction of the hybrid section, saying it’s not too late to revert to the boulevard plan.
Big news & great for city building.
I don't think that's a good idea ! We need expressways to exit the city otherwise traffic will get snarled in stop and go traffic , it's a way to get through the city in a hurry !
Its a waste of taxpayer money. Boulevard