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It's an interesting question I would like to see answered here: policymakers know that more car infrastructure does not improve traffic. This has been an established fact for at least 75 years at this point. So why do they keep doubling down on it? What is the motive force behind this? Is it that cars are one of two gigantic purchases (the other being housing) that every person is basically obligated to make, so it's a giant cash cow for the capitalists?
Yup it's pretty much that, exacerbated in this case by the fact that auto manufacturing makes up an unusually large portion of Ontario's economy. Ontario produces the second most cars of any state or province in North America after Michigan.
It was like 20% of jobs were related to transportation or something at one point.