A balanced and workable
new transportation plan
for the City of Toronto
The Get Toronto Moving transportation plan for the City of Toronto was put together by the Get Toronto Moving Transportation Committee, a group of community volunteer transportation consultants, which also forms the transportation committee of the Toronto Party. They have put together this bold, new and balanced transportation vision for the City of Toronto. The 'Get Toronto Moving' transportation plan was developed by several volunteer key professionals since 1990, who consist of an urban planner, engineers, a TTC employee and interested citizens. This was done to try to change the direction of transportation planning in Toronto and lead the city out of its current traffic gridlock crisis caused by poor planning decisions.
The policy of this plan is:
The "Get Toronto Moving' Transportation Plan oversees policies and projects with the goal of improving the efficiency of all modes of transportation which are the choices of the people of Toronto, including automobiles, subways, cycling and walking.
The elements of this transportation plan for the City of Toronto consist of:
Rapid Transit
Extensions of
Support for the Spadina and Yonge Subway northern extensions as proposed.
Completion of the Sheppard Subway east to the Scarborough Town Centre and west to Downsview
Construction of a ‘U’-shaped Downtown Relief Subway Line along Queen Street stretching to Eglinton Avenue and Jane Street in the west and Eglinton Avenue and Don Mills Road in the east
Extension of the Bloor Subway west to
Extension of the Bloor-Danforth Subway east, replacing the Scarborough Rapid Transit Line to the Scarborough Town Centre, and extended further to the Toronto Zoo (the Scarborough Subway).
Roads
Two new tunnelled expressways within existing utility corridors:
Highway 400 Extension replacing Black Creek Drive and extended south in a tunnel under the Georgetown GO rail corridor to the Gardiner Expressway at Strachan Avenue, as a new airport link route.
Highway 448 along the wide Gatineau hydro corridor across Scarborough from the Don Valley Parkway south of Eglinton Avenue East to Highway 401 at Morningside Avenue, acting as a Gardiner Expressway eastern extension and relieving the heaviest traffic congestion on Kingston Road and on the Don Valley Parkway north of Eglinton Avenue East.
Improvements to existing expressways:
Rename Allen Road as Allen Expressway and construct improved ramps to the Allen Expressway at
Eventual replacement of the elevated Gardiner Expressway with a new cable-stayed viaduct above the Lakeshore rail corridor and Union Station, and convert
The Gardiner Expressway around Humber Bay can be moved offshore to a bridge crossing the bay thus allowing for new waterfront parkland to be created at the western beaches in the Sunnyside area.
Filling in gaps in the arterial street system including minor road extensions and new bridges to make broken streets continuous for traffic, buses and bicycles
Bicycles
A new 100-kilometre network of continuous well-lit off-road bicycle trails cleared of snow in the winter
Technologies
New technologies to improve transport safety, convenience, efficiency and the environment including traffic management, lighting and subway efficiency.
Funding
Using private finance initiatives (PFI) to provide funding for construction.
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There are plenty of available utility corridors across Toronto, some very wide, used for railways and hydro-electric power lines. It is recommended that some of these be utilized for new transportation routes to minimise the impact on communities and neighbourhoods.
Click on the image below to download the most recent executive summary report for the Get Toronto Moving transportation plan
