A majority support the construction of an underground toll road to relieve congestion on the Gardiner Expressway, according to the survey by Environics Research that was published by Toronto’s The Globe and Mail.
The study found that 52 per cent "somewhat support" and 26 per cent "strongly support" building a tunnelled highway from the Humber River to the Don Valley Parkway underneath the Gardiner. The tunnels would be some 12km in length.
"Transportation and transit issues are so very much at the forefront of peoples’ minds that there’s a willingness to look at all sorts of creative and innovative solutions to the problems that face this city," Darren Karasiuk, vice-president of corporate and public affairs at Environics told The Globe and Mail.
"The thing that’s most surprising is that in Toronto proper, you have high support for this, when by all rights, they are the people who will benefit least," Karasiuk said. "There’s a recognition that clearly this is a regional issue."
