On June 4, Mark Saunders, one of the leading candidates in Toronto’s mayoral race, posted a photo of an empty King Street to Twitter. “No cars, no streetcars, no bikes. None of it makes sense,” he wrote, promising to “ease congestion,” by “reopening King Street to cars.”
Gridlock has featured prominently this election campaign, with mayoral candidates pledging everything from ripping out bike lanes, to increasing fines for “lane hogs” and appointing a congestion czar to solve the city’s traffic woes. As the above tweets show, those vying for Toronto’s top job might agree that it’s difficult to get around the city, but few seem to agree on either the cause or the solution to the problem. Some experts doubt it can be solved at all.
While mayoral candidates are promising to fix traffic jams, some experts aren’t so optimistic that it can be done in a bustling city like Toronto. As drivers are stuck in traffic, transit riders are now paying more for less-frequent and more-crowded buses and streetcars, after the TTC made cuts in response to plunging revenues due to decreased ridership. An uptick in violence on the system in recent years — including the fatal stabbing of a 16-year-old boy in March — has also made riders wary.
Politicians interpret the issue differently and then respond in a way that fits that interpretation, Sweet said. Those ideas find a home with voters who see the problem in a similar way.
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