Also the idea of a "ring road" or a "beltway" is a bad idea ecologicaly & economicaly, in that this will only produce sprawl, encourage long haul trucking and we don't need an economic doughnut. In North America what we have isn't a lack of road space, but more like a lack of controling that road space through means such as tolling or congestion charging(think about a cover charge at a club, but in this case one for a city if you choose to take your car).

Instead building Autoroute-30 it would be more cost effective and environmentally friendly to restore rail lines on the south shore and run commuter trains and freight trains.

A good example of what to do would be to follow what the Swiss did with a concept called "Rolling Highway" where trucks drive directly on to a train(as with a ferry) and could bypass entire areas.

http://www.nationalcorridors.org/df/df12112006b.jpg
http://www.swissworld.org/en/switzerland/swiss_specials/swiss_trains/rolling_highway/

In transit, Andrew

Anyway, living in London has taught me one important lesson: people don't walk anywhere when huge construction/utility/delivery/garbage trucks are rattling through the urban streets, spewing soot all over the sidewalks. They drive. And sit in traffic, fuming, for hours, because by God these roads were not intended to handle this many cars, and I damn well have the right to drive my Hummer seven blocks, because God knows I've earned it, living in this grimy, polluted, cesspool of filth day in, day out...

Another spin on the story ("drivers want trucks banned during rush hour") is "trucks and passers-through want alternative to avoid rush hour traffic jams."

If they'd just finish the damn highway 30 on the south shore the problem would be solved.

"You are not stuck in the traffic. You ARE the traffic".

Funny and true :)