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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

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There 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

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