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Here and Now Toronto | Dec 13, 2012 | 7:18

Repair may not be the best fix for Gardiner's woes

The best fix for the Gardiner Expressway may be no fix at all. Urban planner and architect Ken Greenberg says highway is too far gone. But the debate over it's future could be the catalyst for some much larger changes in how all of us get from point A to point B in this city.

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