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Subject: Re: [OT] Ontario's Main Street
Date: Mon, 19 May 2025 18:30:36 -0000 (UTC)
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On May 19, 2025 at 10:16:41 AM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com>
wrote:

> 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.

We've got 350,000 crossing over the Sepulveda Pass each day on the 405.

>> He covers the 401 
>> from its beginning in Windsor (just across from Detroit) to the Quebec 
>> border.
> 
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqyRmAVmUM0 [17 minutes]
> 
>> He does a good job in a relatively short amount of time. If you're 
>> curious to see what this road looks like or why it is so congested in 
>> parts of Toronto, this video will explain that.
> 
> Same thing every expressway in Chicago is congested: Loss of freight rail
> capacity. Let's shoot ourselves in the foot.