{"id":39039,"date":"2025-02-11T07:49:52","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T12:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=39039"},"modified":"2025-02-11T07:49:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T12:49:52","slug":"ontario-promised-one-of-most-ambitious-infrastructure-projects-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=39039","title":{"rendered":"Ontario promised one of &#8216;most ambitious infrastructure projects in the world&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"hoverZoomLink alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20250207-highway-401-tunnel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"295\" height=\"155\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Ontario PC leader Doug Ford doubled down on his wildly ambitious plan to create a new expressway by tunnelling under the gridlocked Highway 401 on a \u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogto.com\/city\/2025\/02\/ontario-promised-highway-401-tunnel\/\">Ontario promised one of &#8216;most ambitious infrastructure projects in the world&#8217;<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>50-100B$.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;In a press release, the Ontario PC party argues that gridlock in Ontario takes a $56.4 billion annual hit on the economy and claims projects such as this and the controversial Highway 413 are crucial to getting the province moving again.&#8221;<br><br>&#8220;The province points to the Ministry of Transportation modelling that states 400-series highways will be at or above capacity within a decade, and that the central portion of Highway 401 will see travel times double by 2051, adding 90 minutes to commutes.&#8221;<br><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ontario PC leader Doug Ford doubled down on his wildly ambitious plan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[149,147,231],"class_list":["post-39039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-dougie","tag-ontario","tag-tunnels","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39039"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39042,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39039\/revisions\/39042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}