Highway 401 Widening - Highway 8 to Townline Road

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After decades of roads being provided to their users for free (by taxpayers at large, most of whom are in the driving group, to be sure, so please nobody bring up how roads are not in fact built by fairy elves; but the appreciation drivers give for their free roads is not at all in line with the complaints from taxpayers over the money they have to shell out), enough driving activity is of sufficiently low value that just deciding not to do it at all for a while, knowing that the area is under construction, makes basically no difference to our lives.

It would be different if we actually had to pay at busy times. For one thing, a lot of traffic would probably decide that it actually isn’t absolutely essential to go precisely at rush hour but rather moving the trip to an off peak time would be just fine.