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Originally Posted by TorqueDog
You are out of your mind.
As someone who routinely works in the GTA, I have to ask if you even know what the traffic situation there is like. Because making a permanent HOV lane on the 4-series highways would make Toronto's awful traffic situation worse by several orders of magnitude... save for the 407 ETR, but that's because it's prohibitively expensive for many people, and quite far away from downtown. Damn thing is usually empty (which is awesome).
Traffic is bumper to bumper as far back as Mississauga. I remember trying to take the 401 from Mississauga Road to Mavis, and it took a solid twenty minutes. Twenty minutes to go ~4.5 kilometres. That's with the normal three eastbound lanes available.
If you seriously think it's a good idea to restrict the left lane to but a fraction of the overall traffic that goes through there (HOV = 3 or more? Really?) and force everyone else and semis to share two piddly lanes, I think you need to share the drugs you're taking because it sounds like a real hoot to be that divorced from reality.
As for having them here permanently, no. Having them active during lane reversals only is more than sufficient for our needs.
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The Mississauga portion of the 401 is the worst because they haven't expanded out the collector/express system out there yet because the overpass bridges weren't build to accommodate so many lanes. They are working on it now and it will improve that section. The rest of the 401 has like 12-18 lanes... they are getting to the point where you just have to figure out a way to get cars off the road since you don't have room to make it any bigger.
The 407 is ridiculously expensive since the PC government of the time 'leased' it out to a 3rd party and they jacked the rates. It was built more as a way to bypass the 401 in Toronto.