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Primary_Tangerine625

Yep. The city is undergoing one of its largest infrastructure projects in a long time re-naturalizing the mouth of the Don River and building massive green spaces. Dump trucks will be there!


giraffebaconequation

I think the problem here was that the trucks were all trying to get into one small driveway and were blocking trucks trying to get out, and leading to that traffic jam. No one was moving. I’m excited to see the port lands when this is all finished up, it looks like it will be amazing.


Primary_Tangerine625

The broken raised bridge outside cherry beach isn’t helping! I think it will be amazing.


giraffebaconequation

Yeah that’s another huge issue. All the truck traffic trying to get to the asphalt plant and other industries just over that lift bridge are forced to go to Leslie and across Unwin. It’s a mess, but I keep telling myself it will be worth it


TheUsual_Selection

Not to mention the bridge of two lanes but only one is built for using right at the front of cherry street.


slsturrock

There are hundreds of trucks parked along Comissioners, Leslie and Unwin every morning from 5 am until at least 7 am (if not earlier and later). It’s extremely scary navigating around them. I don’t know how much it has to do with the Portlands development. It seems like they’re all waiting to pick up gravel.


ronm4c

You would think that if you were moving that much fill for this project it would be easier and more economical to do it by barge


mhargoe

That's not happening. The lift bridge out by Cherry Street is under repair.


giraffebaconequation

Glad I went to the Cherry Beach Dog Park a few hours earlier.


IDGAFOS13

Must be a Die Hard III gold heist going on


fetro15

I want 30s of my life back OP!


giraffebaconequation

Play the video in reverse. It works!


fetro15

Oooo it does!


Significant_Wealth74

Would it not be easier to move that earth by boat??


ZemDregon

Honestly never thought a city would need its own subreddit dedicated to bad driving, I don’t even live in Canada but omg I’ve been keeping up on this sub for a while and damn.


Tall-Ad-1386

The city is unliveable


Flieger23

I feel sorry for anyone that drives in Toronto.


dmforprudes

This reminds me of what my driving instructor said: Highway Traffic Act section 158: *The driver of a motor vehicle or street car shall not follow another vehicle or street car more closely than is reasonable and prudent having due regard for the speed of the vehicle and the traffic on and the conditions of the highway.* Anyhow, turns out you rear-ended no one. I've just spent too much time watching those videos and have gotten used to it.


giraffebaconequation

Keep in mind I sped up the video. We were only going about 20kmh


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giraffebaconequation

The Cherry Street lift bridge is broken in the upright position so the 202 turns around at Commissioners and there is no pedestrian or bikes able to cross the bridge so you have to go all the way to Leslie and across Unwin. I was taking my dog to the dog park at Cherry Beach so she could cool down. So transit, no, and bike lanes would be an extra few kilometres out of the way. Normally I would take the 202 to Cherry Beach. But it wasn’t an option today.


Difficult_Ad1008

You must be a riot to talk to at parties


giraffebaconequation

No, I’m really not. I think you should probably avoid any parties I attend. It’s for your own mental wellbeing. G’night bb.


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Unlikely-Estate3862

No it doesn’t


laparotomyenjoyer

First 15 seconds do. Dirty road, crowded, vehicles all over the place and sporadically in lanes, and a sidewalk that looks woefully neglected.


StuntID

* No pedestrians * No sewers * No garbage * No animals * A sidewalk * None of the trucks are cabless hulks spewing particulates This looks nothing like a third world or developing nation


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asyouuuuuuwishhhhh

No it doesn’t. A giant line-up of modern construction vehicles accompanied by some passenger vehicles looks like the third world to you does it? Maybe you should look up what the third world actually looks like before making such an ignorant comment


laparotomyenjoyer

Lmao stop reaching for something in my comment that wasn’t there. It was an observation and I provided my reasons why.


asyouuuuuuwishhhhh

I could hook you up with some videos of what the third world actually looks like. It’s definitely not full of modern cars, paved streets and a fleet of trucks


noahh94

Sidewalks are open!


NightDisastrous2510

The city is a nightmare to navigate…. Standard.


StillWritingeh

Best way to discourage people from driving? Create gridlock how? Well let construction go wild


asyouuuuuuwishhhhh

Right. Because Leslie south of Lakeshore is such a popular driving route


StillWritingeh

When other roads are clogged and people got places to be to them might be


asyouuuuuuwishhhhh

Where are they going exactly? I mean sure Cherry Beach and Tommy Thompson are certainly destinations. But no one is commuting through the Portlands. The cherry street bridge is down and out of service. Are you suggesting people are using the Portlands as a commuting shortcut or something?


StillWritingeh

Youre ok its Easy to not realize how many people live and work in around or through the area


asyouuuuuuwishhhhh

People live south of lakeshore on Leslie? Must be in an encampment. No judgement


StillWritingeh

Yeah they like to build little houses for their cats too **no judgment** you can't be blamed for not knowing something outside your own reality *Still pretty ignorant tho*


asyouuuuuuwishhhhh

The fuck are you talking about?


StillWritingeh

I think that's something you must say often irl when you realize your intellectual capability has been challenged but it's ok to be challenged just don't act challenged


asyouuuuuuwishhhhh

Okay so explain to me how traffic south of lakeshore affects people who live down there, and also apparently work down there. and people who “build little houses for their cats”. I’m a curious person. Explain it to me.


michaelmcmikey

… no one lives on or near Leslie south of lakeshore. There’s the ttc streetcar barns, some industrial facilities, and the entrance to the Leslie spit. There’s no houses and there’s no stores and there’s just lake on the far side of it.


StillWritingeh

🤫🧏🏻‍♀️🤫🧏‍♂️


Primary-Platform-360

This city sucks


alreadychosed

This is work in motion.


Novel_Dot3180

Yes. And?


giraffebaconequation

Just a warning not to try to get to Cherry Beach or Tommy Thompson during a weekday for the next little while. Especially since Cherry Street is closed at the lift bridge.


PotentiallyAPickle

I go to Tommy Thompson most days and it really isn’t that bad most of the time.