{"id":40457,"date":"2025-05-30T14:38:24","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T18:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=40457"},"modified":"2025-05-30T14:38:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T18:38:24","slug":"ontario-wants-to-study-building-a-401-tunnel-but-one-expert-says-theres-a-much-simpler-fix-than-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=40457","title":{"rendered":"Ontario wants to study building a 401 tunnel but one expert says there\u2019s a much simpler fix than that"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/QC3JOMR5I7WBCDMMMITZ2ZX6QA.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"331\" height=\"174\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Ontario is studying the idea of digging a massive tunnel under Highway 401 but one economist says there\u2019s a much simpler and proven way to reduce gridlock in Toronto \u2014 charge drivers at peak road times.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/news\/2025\/05\/30\/ontario-wants-to-study-building-a-401-tunnel-but-one-expert-says-theres-a-much-simpler-fix-than-that\/\">Ontario wants to study building a 401 tunnel but one expert says there\u2019s a much simpler fix than that<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>tl;dr: congestion pricing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ontario is studying the idea of digging a massive tunnel under Highway&#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":[149,147,232,304,231],"class_list":["post-40457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-dougie","tag-ontario","tag-tbm","tag-transportation","tag-tunnels","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40457","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=40457"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40460,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40457\/revisions\/40460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}