Ontario Premier Doug Ford plans to focus on Toronto’s grinding gridlock in a round of upcoming legislation that promises to be “game-changing” for drivers.
Speaking at the Toronto Region Board of Trade, the premier said he was planning to bring big changes to two particular routes, the Gardiner Expressway and Highway 401.
“We have some other great ideas, some really, really game-changing things that we’re going to do in transportation,” Ford said.
He also told Global News the plans were focused specifically on tackling congestion on Highway 401 and the Gardiner Expressway.
The latter was handed to the provincial government by the City of Toronto in a recent new deal and is in the midst of a years-long rehabilitation project, which has slowed already congested traffic to a crawl.
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During the spring, the transportation minister suggested construction on the Gardiner Expressway should take place 24 hours a day to speed up the project. That …