Quote (Caedus @ Oct 30 2013 02:33pm)
I don't remember Vancouver well enough (Was only in and out of it), but I think most cities do have them. Vancouver probably needs one. Ottawa has one, I remember Montreal having one, I know Calgary has one. If Vancouver doesn't have an expressway I think they're the exception not the norm for major cities. London is pretty much the only major city in Ontario that doesn't have one.
All the big American cities have them.
That and Toronto would be the places that stick out to me.
All over Europe I'd say they don't have them.
Major thoroughfares, sure, but not the super highways that you're expecting.
It really depends on your population and how you control your traffic.
There's multiple ways through the city and to our downtown core.
Our worst bottleneck is actually from the North coming into downtown because of the old bridge system.
We divert our commercial (trucks and what not) away from our main thoroughfares so it's mostly just cars and some small trucks.
The big trucks go on other roads which are much faster for them to reach the ports and stuff.
We don't have nearly the amount of traffic you do though.
Vancouver proper has a population of like 600k.