Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he wants to build a tunnel for cars and transit under Highway 401 that would stretch roughly from Brampton to Scarborough.

Citing increasing gridlock and little room for highway expansion at a news conference Wednesday morning, Ford says his government will begin studying the technical feasibility of building a tunnel stretching across the GTA under the country’s busiest highway.

“This tunnel and expressway will cut gridlock, support economic growth and help get people moving faster,” Ford said.

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    3 months ago

    Municipalities exist at the convenience of the Province. They can, and will, interfere as much as they please. Not saying this is a good thing, but it is how things are.

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      3 months ago

      … but it is how things are …

      … now. How things are now.

      Only after Druggie decided to mess around in TO’s municiple politics to set his own fucking agenda.

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        3 months ago

        They always had the absolute right to do so. Norms were that they didn’t, but the right existed.

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          You’re correct, but that’s not really the point of the origin question. Yes they always could, but why are they doing it now? Why this uptick in meddling?

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            Because the Cons in power are the party of F you, got mine (and will get my buddies [cough, construction industry, cough] theirs)