The Utah Hockey Club got the full Toronto experience Sunday night ahead of their first-ever matchup against the Maple Leafs—bumper-to-bumper traffic that forced the team to walk to the game.
“I think that’s a first for everyone. Never saw that before,” Utah defenceman Maveric Lamoureux tells the camera that documented the team’s stroll to Scotiabank Arena.
Lamoureux said the team’s bus was “not moving at all” in the Sunday evening traffic, just hours after the Santa Claus Parade and resulting road closures.
“So it’s pretty much the whole team walking the street,” he said, noting that they would probably miss their 5:15 p.m. pre-game meeting.
Toronto:
1954:
1978:
2002:
2024:
We have increased our population density by orders of magnitude while building no new capacity to move people around.
In that time period we have extended our already overcrowded Yonge line, opened an express train to the airport, opened one street with a dedicated LRT corridor, and dug precisely zero new tunnels.
When you turn your city into a series of skyscrapers with thousands of people stacked on top of each other you need both trains and tunnels to actually move them around efficiently. Surface level roads will inherently clog.
I thought we dug a tunnel and then just filled it in, leaving all the tunnel drilling things down there as well