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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
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Subject: Re: [OT] Ontario's Main Street
Date: Mon, 19 May 2025 17:55:33 -0000 (UTC)
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shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:
>Mon, 19 May 2025 17:16:41 -0000 (UTC), Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com>:
>>Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

>>>I just came across an interesting video about the 401, Ontario's main 
>>>street. The presenter is an American so it's interesting to hear his 
>>>point of view as opposed to those of locals. He points out that the 401 
>>>is the busiest highway in North America, busier than anything in NYC, 
>>>LA, Chicago or any other large city in the US of A.

>>I looked it up. In Chicago, the Kennedy (a friend of mine calls it the
>>Ted) carries 327,000 vehicles per day. This runs northwest. The Dan Ryan
>>carries over 300,000 per day. Both were built assuming less than half
>>that demand, hahahahahahahahaha.

>Not bad.. I just looked up I-285 running around Atlanta and according
>to Google AI it says about two million people a day use the highway. 
>Which I can believe.

It's a circle bypass; no one is driving end-to-end, not that it ends.
The maximum load point is 243,000 vehicles per day, although one article
suggested 300,000 VPD, hard to believe. Compare Tri-State Tollway, the
Chicago bypass, which is 120,000 to 185,000 VPD.

>>>. . .