User:The Canadian Roadgeek/About

The Canadian Roadgeek, namely Nicholas Tam, is a loyal Canadian who lives in Markham, Ontario. He is a high school student, working very hard at school and at Wikipedia. He enjoyed several "geeky" pastimes, but he thinks these pastimes aren't geeky at all. For instance, he enjoys spending hours and hours finding out where one highway leads to, or its history, or even at the communities located on these highways. Other than that, he also watches and monitors the weather closely, and reports any severe weather to the local meteorological society. In addition, he purchased several weather stations and weather forecasting software to assist him in identifying the local weather conditions. He hopes to enter McGill University someday, and become either a meteorologist or an urban planner.

He is a supporter of the Liberal Party of Ontario and the Liberal Party of Canada.

Local issues
Personally, The Canadian Roadgeek loves his residential city, Markham. He thinks it is way better than Toronto, since Toronto is crowded and Toronto has a high crime rate. However, he enjoys a walk/shopping trip in Downtown Toronto. He longed to have Downtown Markham completed, so that he could enjoy Markham to his full potential. He enjoyed writing articles about Markham and York Region. Personally, he supports the VIVA bus, he thinks it s safe and fast. He does not like the TTC (just the buses, not the subway), which is relatively unsafe, and slow too! He believes, Markham, as a town of 260,000, should be promoted to a city, and that Markham should inherit Toronto's "tradition", and start building a subway system. Starting on York Regional Road 7 is perfectly fine.

Regional issues
The Golden Horseshoe has been growing faster than before, especially in York Region and Peel Region. In fact, York Region's growth rate exceeded Peel Region. The Peel Region connects to Toronto via superhighways (ex. Highway 401, with over 7 lanes per direction), but York Region (particularly Markham) only receives an "ordinary" 400-series highways (ex. Highway 404, only 4 lanes per direction). The construction of Highway 400 and the High-occupancy vehicle lane (HOV lanes) doesn't help either. He believes that the provincial government should invest on upgrading Markham Road and Kingston Road into an expressway of 6 lanes per direction or more. If the government does not want to "abandon" Markham Road and Kingston Road, they might as well build an elevated highway over it, using the style they've used for Gardiner Expressway and Lake Shore Boulevard.