01-02-2015, 02:41 PM
(01-02-2015, 01:47 PM)mpd618 Wrote: The most problematic American (and American-style) expressways were about building highways to whisk commuters from new suburbs into the downtown office district.
Honestly, while we have some lasting damage from the King Street by-pass and the Conestoga Expressway, I think they're examples of pretty good expressway projects in that they added serious connectivity without hurting the city core. Compare Kitchener to Rochester at the same scale to see what an American style expressway might've looked like.
Yes. That Rochester 490 isn't so good and we don't have anything like that. It is still true, I think, that the expressway cuts off access to the Bridgeport trolley park area, which is unfortunate but not as bad as it could be.
The closest Canadian equivalents I can think of are, as I wrote earlier, Montreal's Ville Marie Expressway and the Gardiner. Certainly the 401 doesn't go into any city cores.