But keep it a secret and suddenly everyone's interested.
The long awaited and long hidden report on the future of the Gardiner Expressway has finally been released and it offers three separate options - all of which come with a huge price tag.
The study targets the elevated part of the roadway running east of Bathurst to West of the Don River.
Among the options that experts are calling the "Three R's":
Replace it
This would involve burying it using tunnels at a cost of $1.3 billion.
Retain It
This would mean relocating some strategic ramps and exits. That would put a $415 million dent in taxpayer wallets.
Remove it
This alternative centres on either expanding the Lakeshore or creating new surface roadways. The price tag for that: $437 for the former and $457 million for the latter.
The report indicates what drivers already know - the Gardiner is already over capacity.
It currently handles three times more volume than it was built for. When construction began in 1955, it was projected 60,000 cars a day would traverse its lanes.
But since the explosion of growth in the suburbs, that's now up to 180,000 - and growing.
The report, which has been kept secret for two years, is expected to play a major role in the November civic election, with both major candidates - David Miller and Jane Pitfield - sharing similar views but coming from opposite sides.
Critics contend Miller has been trying to hide the report to keep it off the campaign trail radar, an allegation he flatly denies.
"Records that come in from other agencies for city staff review happen all the time," he contends. "There are hundreds of records that come in for review ... City staff haven't finished their review and when they do finish their review, they report out. A member of council got interested and asked for the report ... If council wants an outside report, the appropriate procedure is for council to ask for it. That's what happened here."
But while he's in favour of seeing the Gardiner removed, he admits there's a problem.
"Frankly I don't see where the money's going to come from for any of these scenarios ... because we'd have to have a partnership with the federal and provincial governments and they haven't offered any money yet," he points out.
Miller predicts it's a moot point in any event because an environmental assessment will take three years and an actual decision would be at least another year after that.
All tolled, it's expected that even if the decision were made today, the entire project wouldn't be ready for at least a decade.
And he admits his first priority is developing the waterfront, and that's what he intends to concentrate on.
Opponent Jane Pitfield maintains there's no doubt about her position - leave it alone for now.
"The majority of people in this city want the Gardiner to stay exactly where it is," she asserts. "No more of it should come down. It is a major east/west transportation network, and we have no good solution."
She believes Miller has an ulterior motive for trying to keep the report out of the public eye.
"He would prefer it not to be an election issue because he knows it's contentious," she charges. "This is a much bigger issue than the bridge to the Island Airport."
Pitfield also says there are more pressing issues that need to be addressed, like crime and garbage. And she's convinced the public and not politicians should make the ultimate decision on the elevated roadway with a referendum
The Canadian Automobile Association likes that idea. Faye Lyons feels it's something that should be open for debate.
"If you were to actually look at taking down the Gardiner Expressway, what is going to happen with that expressway-style traffic?" she wonders. "It's going to flush onto residential streets, which causes a big safety concern with the residents of Toronto, and again will force more congestion in the city as well."
But Miller insists you can't take anything to the people without first having a sound business plan in place that includes alternate transportation options - and so far nothing exists.
"We can't go to the people of Toronto with something that's not real," he counters. "Right now there is no business plan and no funding plan for any work to be done on the Gardiner other than routine maintenance."
The report cost $1 million and makes for some heavy reading - it takes up a full seven volumes.
Gardiner has been mired in controversy for years