[Uptown] Erb/Bridgeport/Caroline/Albert Reconstruction

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Using the low volume argument we could have shot down the expressway back when it was constructed.

What do you mean? Arguing that there is no volume on a piece of infrastructure that doesn’t exist is not at all the same as saying a street is overbuilt for the volume it has been carrying.

The expressway didn't see substantial amounts of traffic until quite a while after it was built.

The rest of your "arguments" in favour of the road diet apply equally to the expressway, and again, Erb St W proves that they are not universal.

What you fail to see is that we have streets and we have arterial roads. You are trying to apply street logic to an arterial road. Here's your argument in a nut shell:

"Hey, this artery isn't clogged, let's make it two way so that it becomes so."