welcome to The 401RT EXPRESS website

Toronto is facing the prospect of population growth that will create a great deal more travel demand. The government of Ontario has recognized that Highway 401 through the city will soon be congested to the point of gridlock, and has proposed a new multilevel Highway 401 tunnel to increase the highway’s capacity along its most congested portion.  The end result would be to ease congestion on that portion of the highway, but will increase traffic everywhere else − on the rest of Highway 401 and on municipal roads that may already be congested yet cannot be widened.

The scale of the problem is enormous, as is the proposed tunnel plan, which may cost $90 billion to construct. But if Toronto’s population increases by a million by 2055, the solution to road congestion will not be to add more car traffic, but to reduce it. And that means new rapid transit well beyond what is being implemented and planned – one that meets the scale of the problem.

Transit expansion initiatives for the Toronto area have consistently overlooked the most critical missing rapid transit component that can reduce overall road traffic congestion − a single, continuous relatively high speed east-west rapid transit line that is elevated above ground across the suburban middle of the GTA, from Liverpool Road in Pickering through northern Toronto and into Mississauga.  This website suggests that this “401RT Express” is the only way to absorb all travel demand growth from Highway 401, and travel demand from across the region's core. 

Please access the downloadable files attached below, including the Summary, the more detailed 'Transit Rescue file (w. short discussion re AI), the long Benefits List, a file regarding the future of the Sheppard Subway, and files illustrating a proposed alignment of the 401RT Express. 

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