On occasion Ideas Free to a Good Home receives outside submissions. We weren’t sure what to make of this one that arrived from a Mr. J. Dilkas, but thought we’d throw it out there anyway as a guest contribution. If we were at a dinner party and we played word association and you said, “Toronto,” I’ll probably say “cockblocked” or something. Trying to drive across the downtown from somewhere else in the GTA proper is like getting cockblocked. I try a lot of different approaches and I get nowhere with a bunch of friction and a whole lot of frustration. Cars have nowhere to go downtown. I don’t mean that literally. I know taxicabs and ambulances are taking people places, but cars that are trying to go nowhere near the downtown are in big trouble. Even if I wanted to take the 401 around the whole mess, it’s going to take me an hour to get there. And then it’s the highway. I live in a city but I have to take a highway to get to another part of the city? That does not compute. What I would like is a way to get from one side of the GTA proper to the other without all the in-between things. Something seamless, like a tunnel. From east to west and back again. How about from Vic Park to Islington? That sounds reasonable to me. It’s all I need anyway (ha ha). I would totally pay about five bucks each way for that. And I don’t really need it, but if I got a percentage for this idea as well as free rides, that’d be great too. So let’s start digging! Ideas Free to a Good Home is a clearing house of ideas we’re too lazy to develop ourselves.
