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New Brunswick's Highways
andrepoiy:
empttyyy
Alps:
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Yeah it's never been clear why 1 needed to be a freeway all the way to Maine.
andrepoiy:
--- Quote from: Alps on June 12, 2022, 09:56:22 AM ---
--- Quote from: andrepoiy on June 11, 2022, 11:16:36 PM ---empttyyy
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Yeah it's never been clear why 1 needed to be a freeway all the way to Maine.
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I find it quite funny that the whole province of NB (population of 770k) has so many freeway miles, while in Alberta, Hwy 2 between Edmonton and Calgary (both metro areas of population 1.4 mil) isn't even fully controlled-access.
webfil:
And yet, this has to be among the busiest rural interchanges in NB, linking the three most populous urban areas in the province (although they be mid-sized towns with a population of 100-150k). 2012 figures are somewhere around 15 kvpd. Anything over 20 kvpd on a freeway is exceptionnal in New Brunswick, with such measurements only seen in/around Saint John, Moncton, Fredericton and Shediac areas.
New Brunswick has a low "twinning trigger", working on 4-laning when the numbers hit 8 kvpd. The four-laning of highway 1 west of Lepreau, the desertic NB-95 and NB-2 redundancies with pre-existing expressways (7, 15, 130, etc.) might be justified by something else, such as "we got the federal/Irving/McCain to tell us to do it this way" or "it looks darn good on a map".
AsphaltPlanet:
Its some luxury to be able to consistently twin highways with such low traffic volumes.
I'd love to see both Hwy 11 and Hwy 8 twinned along the eastern edge of New Brunswick. I'd love to see that paired with a new Autoroute in Québec, either an extension of A-20 or say A-95, to better link the eastern shore of New Brunswick with the A-20/401 corridor in Québec and Ontario. Places like Campbellton and Bathurst feel far more remote than they need to.
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