By Staff
March 3rd, 2025
BURLINGTON, ON
Traffic congestion seems to have been a Burlington problem for some time.
There are those who speak of a time when traffic wasn’t a problem.
This is a view of St. Paul Street, St. Catharines in 1940.
This is a view of St. Paul Street, St. Catharines in 1940. The opening of the QEW was expected to solve the problem.
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Looks like for once there is agreement here. Hard not to if you have eyes, or a brain. If all we want to do as number 1 activity is grow people, houses, cars, trucks, roads, and stuff to move around, what else do we expect.
This has been going on for a while, growing everything until we are full. Watch out for the coming limits of all sorts.
I fully concur with Graham. I have lived in Burlington for over 70 years and for most of that time it was easy to get around the City at any time of day in a car or on a bike. Very little traffic either downtown or on the QEW. I recall that when I started to commute to downtown Toronto for school or work in the 1970s, I could drive there during rush hour (there was no rush hour) in about 45 minutes. The problem now is primarily during evening rush hour when traffic gets off the QEW at the east end of the city and gets back on past the hospital plugging up every east-west street south of the highway, making it almost impossible for residents to get around by car. It’s only gong to get worse.
St. Catharines would love to see that volume of traffic along St. Paul today.
Nonsense!This congestion started to get to a real problem about 7 years ago That is when I sold my Harley since I found it too dangerous for a senior.
Of real concern is the plan to house around 30000 new residents in the small area surrounding Appleby and Fairview.
We need our council to get some guts and push back like they are doing in Oakville.Read the Sunday Star to see how they push back on the same issue around their GO station land.
Please would you articulate what success they have achieved through their, as you put it, push back.
Agreed. About seven years ago, yep.
1940 there would be a lot of stop signs. And poor street layout and design. I don’t even see lane markings. Traffic lights only started to show in 1925 from what I can read. Certainly not a good yardstick to use. Okay, metre stick if you insist.