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Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: [OT] Ontario's Main Street Date: Mon, 19 May 2025 14:47:51 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 49 Message-ID: <100fuco$c8fs$13@dont-email.me> References: <100flhb$c8fs$7@dont-email.me> <100fp1p$1nl2g$2@dont-email.me> <100ftcc$1okqv$2@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 19 May 2025 20:47:55 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="fb50581347a6a223fa972f3ed3432fff"; logging-data="401916"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/kCSoaScuxReBujh0rQYqCl4LU9CDaWz8=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:0l7ViVu7tK8vuRnXJ2nVepzS89s= X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 250519-2, 5/19/2025), Outbound message In-Reply-To: <100ftcc$1okqv$2@dont-email.me> Content-Language: en-CA X-Antivirus-Status: Clean On 2025-05-19 2:30 PM, BTR1701 wrote: > 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. > Wikipedia says this about the 401: It is one of the world's busiest highways;[6] a 2019 analysis stated the annual average daily traffic (AADT) count between Renforth Drive and Highway 427 in Toronto was at 450,300,[1] while a second study estimates that over 500,000 vehicles travel that section on some days.[5] This makes it North America's busiest roadway, surpassing the Santa Monica Freeway in Los Angeles and I-75 in Atlanta.[7][11] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario_Highway_401] >>> 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. > > > -- Rhino