Why is the Board of Trade shilling for The Big Doug?
We should be debating actual solutions to congestion instead of a highway tunnel scheme that will never be built
By John LorincThere are so many sensible reasons to not build a Toronto by-pass tunnel — what we at Spacing have dubbed `The Big Doug’ after Boston’s Big Dig — that it’s scarcely worth the time to itemize them all. But besides the cost — staggering! — and the inevitable induced congestion — crushing! — a few that haven’t been bruited in the past few days do come to mind: A public works project of this scale will sponge up such an enormous portion of the region’s... Read more
