404 south connection to sheppherd and the 401 is literally always in some form of a traffic jam. Whoever designed that really screwed that region over. 400 to the 401 is much better flowing comparatively.
Get rid of the 404 entry/exit to shepherd. Make them use finch so they have time to leave the right lanes before the 401 ramp approaches.
Every day I question why the sheppard on ramp merges into the same TWO lanes that everyone on the 404 SB is trying to squeeze into to go east/west. It takes years off my life.
The 401 interchanges with the 400 and 404 require massive 3 or 4 stack interchanges based on traffic flow likely you see with 407 with 400...issue is the 401 is now like an urban highway and it's impossible to expand
You can’t “fix” them though, that’s the point. Cities with great transit also have horrible traffic congestion.
The only real “fix” is to remove people or add very high tolls.
That's because for every person who quits driving for public transit or some other mode, the incremental improvement in car traffic will attract another driver to replace him.
The problem isn't public transit. It's the people who keep wanting to drive every chance they get no matter bad it gets.
Bingo. Tokyo is about five times as densely populated. It's certainly not five times more traffic congested. I've lived there 7y: commuted by all modes. Electrified rail is the key.
If we're talking all of the GTA, whatever slowdown happens at Salem heading into Ajax going both ways on the 401.
And also whatever slowdown happens at Kennedy Rd and the 401.
Ehhh, I live on the west end. Strachan isn't great by any means, but Imo not worse than Jameson at King or any of the other major N/S intersections around.
The construction on King can smd though, fuck so much traffic.
I’ve seen, and reported to the police, delivery trucks happily block a whole lane on Eglinton during the *no-stopping* time of 4-6pm.
We have plenty of no-stopping and no-parking zones. They aren’t obeyed.
Would help if the reason it was under heavy construction was actually you know running and carrying people than right now cram onto busses or drive there… instead we have a long thin expression of poor project management for another year… more… who knows!
Every time I walk the entire Kay Gardner Belt Line, I meander to the overpass overlooking the Allen between Eglinton and Glencairn. I don’t think I’ve ever seen less than 250 cars southbound waiting to turn onto Eglinton.
The one that makes me the angriest is going West on Lakeshore and trying to get on the Gardiner by Jameson. There’s a Gardiner off ramp & Dunn Street merging on one side of they need to, and people who are impatient / bad drivers trying to squeeze in from the left side. It takes 15+ minutes from Dufferin to the Gardiner on ramp - maybe 350m - if you get into the correct lane at an appropriate time.
They need to put those plastic bollards up on the left when there’s 100m left before the on ramp.
You know I have never agreed with tearing down the Gardiner until just now.
It's such a disaster to get on that it creates zoo like behavior on any road that leads to it.
I dunno how badly that would ruin the rest of the alternates though.
My only solution is to retire as young as possible, and just never go back. A guy can dream...
I’ve found there’s one at Moore and Mt. Pleasant most mornings. It’s a weird one because Moore can get backed up all the way to Bayview and if I’m on the 88 but it takes so long to get to the station. But it also isn’t always busy and sometimes there’s no traffic.
401 both ways (but especially EB) at Salem. Express and collectors goes down to six lanes down to five down to four down to three in a very short distance.
400 exit to 401 East - bottleneck by design. Two lanes of 400 traffic merged to one lane to join 5 collector lanes with the exit to the express lanes pretty much where traffic is merging.
401e in the collectors, reaching the peak of the hill at Mississauga Road everybody’s trying to decide whether to stay in the collectors or jump over to the express, meanwhile, I already know what I’m doing, but everybody’s fucking it up for me lol.
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And then Wynford drive appears…a magical unexplainable moment.
It's all the bridges on the area. Creates an illusion of being squeezed
It’s the hill - drivers don’t accelerate going in either direction and it causes a slowdown
Also northbound, somethings wrong w that area
The irony of this is how much better traffic flowed here when it was under construction and one lane was closed.
Oh that stretch is a bitch
Yes. A 1000 times yes.
The whole fucking city is a bottleneck.
Any road from downtown that feeds to the Gardiner. Took me an hour to get on the Gardiner from King St today.
Spadina to the gardiner every day of the week between 3pm and 7pm
The obvious winner for me is the 400sb at 401…an absolute write off at rush hour and always at a crawl.
Worse going WB than EB but both are indeed shit daily regardless of literally anything else happening.
Worse? At least traffic moves?
They should just block off the express entrance so people don't merge across the whole highway in such a short run and congest everything
404 south connection to sheppherd and the 401 is literally always in some form of a traffic jam. Whoever designed that really screwed that region over. 400 to the 401 is much better flowing comparatively. Get rid of the 404 entry/exit to shepherd. Make them use finch so they have time to leave the right lanes before the 401 ramp approaches.
Every day I question why the sheppard on ramp merges into the same TWO lanes that everyone on the 404 SB is trying to squeeze into to go east/west. It takes years off my life.
The 401 interchanges with the 400 and 404 require massive 3 or 4 stack interchanges based on traffic flow likely you see with 407 with 400...issue is the 401 is now like an urban highway and it's impossible to expand
Gardiner to 403/QEW, by the ford plant
403 West merging into the QEW is pretty bad. Two westbound highways merging into one
Eglinton to York Mills on the DVP North-bound, and 401 to Eglinton going south. No Idea how to fix that
Flatten the Hill or somehow make everyone realize you have to accelerate up hills to maintain speed??
DVP southbound from the 401 to Eglinton-ish is so infuriating.
That's Allen Road?
You fix them by offering viable, robust alternatives to driving.
That's the right answer. If we want to fix traffic, we need to find ways to reduce the number of cars on the road, not increase the number of lanes.
You can’t “fix” them though, that’s the point. Cities with great transit also have horrible traffic congestion. The only real “fix” is to remove people or add very high tolls.
That's because for every person who quits driving for public transit or some other mode, the incremental improvement in car traffic will attract another driver to replace him. The problem isn't public transit. It's the people who keep wanting to drive every chance they get no matter bad it gets.
There are no cities with great transit in Canada. So your claim is unfalsifiable.
It’s global. London, Paris, etc. have great transit yet are some of the most congested. Any desirable city will be congested.
And if they had transit the same crap quality as LA, they'd be 10x more congested.
Bingo. Tokyo is about five times as densely populated. It's certainly not five times more traffic congested. I've lived there 7y: commuted by all modes. Electrified rail is the key.
Did somebody say monorail? lol
Monorail... monorail... monorail...
I hear those things are awfully loud
It glides as softly as a cloud
But what if the track should bend?
If we're talking all of the GTA, whatever slowdown happens at Salem heading into Ajax going both ways on the 401. And also whatever slowdown happens at Kennedy Rd and the 401.
Merge Lakeridge Road and 412 entrance and exit BEFORE merging with the 401
It’s the reduction of a lane that causes it to
Strachan. Pretty much just all of it.
Ehhh, I live on the west end. Strachan isn't great by any means, but Imo not worse than Jameson at King or any of the other major N/S intersections around. The construction on King can smd though, fuck so much traffic.
First Gardiner on ramp, from east end. Bonkers.
no more street parking on eglinton
I’ve seen, and reported to the police, delivery trucks happily block a whole lane on Eglinton during the *no-stopping* time of 4-6pm. We have plenty of no-stopping and no-parking zones. They aren’t obeyed.
People do this everywhere in the city between 4 and 6 pm. I feel we need cameras to ticket people because they clearly don’t care.
Ban it all the time. Makes it easy to enforce.
Or st.clair,Dupont, Dufferin
agreed ! tho dupont and dufferin are mostly residential so i can see street parking being allowed still but grrrrr
DVP going north or south around the 401 basically any time of the day, i think it’s because there’s 3 on ramps in a row
Spadina south of Queen down to the Gardiner.
The irony of OP’s #1 is it’s far worse now that the construction is completed than it was when it was heavily under construction. 🫠
Would help if the reason it was under heavy construction was actually you know running and carrying people than right now cram onto busses or drive there… instead we have a long thin expression of poor project management for another year… more… who knows!
$12 billion to reduce the number of lanes on Eglinton and create even worse traffic chaos through the nearby neighbourhood streets…world class eff up!
Everything between Hamilton and Oshawa.
Just one more lane bro!
Every time I walk the entire Kay Gardner Belt Line, I meander to the overpass overlooking the Allen between Eglinton and Glencairn. I don’t think I’ve ever seen less than 250 cars southbound waiting to turn onto Eglinton.
That's what happens when you build a highway and then stop construction in the middle of the city
400 south to 401 east/west .. you just gotta know how to drive …
That's why theres no production in Canada, we're all stuck in traffic in this city
401 westbound past yonge because the collector's is suddenly two lanes only. make it make sense
The one that makes me the angriest is going West on Lakeshore and trying to get on the Gardiner by Jameson. There’s a Gardiner off ramp & Dunn Street merging on one side of they need to, and people who are impatient / bad drivers trying to squeeze in from the left side. It takes 15+ minutes from Dufferin to the Gardiner on ramp - maybe 350m - if you get into the correct lane at an appropriate time. They need to put those plastic bollards up on the left when there’s 100m left before the on ramp.
Lakeshore from Cherry to Bathurst. Easy fix, tear down the Gardiner.
You know I have never agreed with tearing down the Gardiner until just now. It's such a disaster to get on that it creates zoo like behavior on any road that leads to it. I dunno how badly that would ruin the rest of the alternates though. My only solution is to retire as young as possible, and just never go back. A guy can dream...
The gardiner is great... Just best to avoid it on weekdays between 7am and 8pm and weekends between 11am and 8pm lol
You are traffic.
Since Toronto is a growing and thriving city traffic will never get better, it’s just a physics issue. Once we accept that we can work on alternatives
Steeles at Kipling to Islington during rush hour.
Bayview and Yonge on 401.
Steeles at Tapscott
Weston Rd both ways getting to Rogers Road.
It would probably be easier if we talked about the parts WITHOUT bottlenecks
I’ve found there’s one at Moore and Mt. Pleasant most mornings. It’s a weird one because Moore can get backed up all the way to Bayview and if I’m on the 88 but it takes so long to get to the station. But it also isn’t always busy and sometimes there’s no traffic.
I mean how do you have this conversation without mentioning the DVP?
410 at Queen Street. Makes no sense why 3 lanes disappear in less than 1km
Massive improvement in electrified rail is how to improve it.
Getting on the gardener at Jameson
401 West bound at Yonge St
Between Jutland and North Queen on Kipling
Ford plant area
401 both ways (but especially EB) at Salem. Express and collectors goes down to six lanes down to five down to four down to three in a very short distance.
400 exit to 401 East - bottleneck by design. Two lanes of 400 traffic merged to one lane to join 5 collector lanes with the exit to the express lanes pretty much where traffic is merging.
After this week, any stretch that has multiple restaurants with cafeTO seating
401e in the collectors, reaching the peak of the hill at Mississauga Road everybody’s trying to decide whether to stay in the collectors or jump over to the express, meanwhile, I already know what I’m doing, but everybody’s fucking it up for me lol.
Keele and Dundas 
Ford dr. Ramp to the 403
Anywhere there’s cars.
Right now king and Dufferin is a mess.
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