Actually congestion is now worse going westbound thanks to the stupid light at Tim Horton`s. That`s right, timmies needed its own traffic light. If people will sit in a drive thru for 10 minutes for coffee they will drive around the block for it.
They never properly synced the traffic lights so you have 400 feet or so of pavement empty from the first and second light which backs traffic up to Ottowa at certain times of the day. Plus you have quite abit of traffic that turns on to Coast Meridian but they made turn lane between the two lights only. Whoever designed this area did not put much thought into it.
I think they want to try and divert traffic away from Shaughnessy as it gets really congested in the peak hours and weekends as it only single lane each way. It has been needed for awhile now, glad to see it almost complete.