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[andrepoiy]

Curious as to why Highway 11's exits are not numbered between Gravenhurst and Orillia, and also between Orillia and Highway 400. Are there plans to number these eventually? I also notice that Highway 69's exits aren't numbered north of the French River

It's most likely since they're not controlled access

[andrepoiy]

Today I drove on the now toll-free Highway 418

Regarding signage changes, they covered over the "TOLL" on overhead signs, they removed the toll tab from reassurance markers (but the blue on white markers are still there), and they added new "407 Transponder Must Be Visible" signs at the end of the freeway. I believe they might have also removed the "418 407 Transponder Must Be Visible" signs at the entrances to the 418 but I wasn't paying too much attention to that. The toll gantries are also still there.

What I think might be useful is to put a "LAST EXIT BEFORE TOLL" tab on the final exit before going to Highway 407 on the north end.

[andrepoiy]

A part of the Wayne Gretzky Parkway has collapsed onto Highway 403 in Brantford. Wow.

https://globalnews.ca/news/8820886/bridge-collapse-highway-403-brant-county-may-2022/

[Stephane Dumas]

Fortunately, no one was hurt or killed. That reminds me of the 2 viaducts in Laval, QC who collapsed. First one was Du Souvenir Blvd overpass in 2000 and the 2nd, De La Concorde Blvd in 2007.

[rickmastfan67]

If you look at the middle of the beam on the bridge, looks like that there was a significant impact there.  Could that be related to the partial collapse?

[andrepoiy]

If you look at the middle of the beam on the bridge, looks like that there was a significant impact there.  Could that be related to the partial collapse?

Yeah they reported a truck collided with the bridge

[zzcarp]

Looks like this was a protective beam and not a structural member. You can see it in street view, and it looked all scratched up already.

[mrsman]

A Polandball comic references Ontario Highways:


https://www.reddit.com/r/polandball/comments/umh5vk/just_one_more_lane/

[kernals12]

A Polandball comic references Ontario Highways:


https://www.reddit.com/r/polandball/comments/umh5vk/just_one_more_lane/

Highway 401 was built like that back in the 70s, it was not widened one lane at a time. Internet urbanists are the worst.

[andrepoiy]

A Polandball comic references Ontario Highways:


https://www.reddit.com/r/polandball/comments/umh5vk/just_one_more_lane/

Highway 401 was built like that back in the 70s, it was not widened one lane at a time. Internet urbanists are the worst.

I think this is supposed to be comical, not necessarily following the exact truths.

[kernals12]

A Polandball comic references Ontario Highways:


https://www.reddit.com/r/polandball/comments/umh5vk/just_one_more_lane/

Highway 401 was built like that back in the 70s, it was not widened one lane at a time. Internet urbanists are the worst.

I think this is supposed to be comical, not necessarily following the exact truths.

It's misinformation.

[cbeach40]

A Polandball comic references Ontario Highways:


https://www.reddit.com/r/polandball/comments/umh5vk/just_one_more_lane/

Highway 401 was built like that back in the 70s, it was not widened one lane at a time. Internet urbanists are the worst.

I think this is supposed to be comical, not necessarily following the exact truths.

It's misinformation.

Tell us you don't know shit about how and when the 401 was built, what other projects have been built over the years, and are shoehorning in your political views in order to have a bad faith interpretation of a comic without telling us you don't know shit about how and when the 401 was built, what other projects have been built over the years, and are shoehorning in your political views in order to have a bad faith interpretation of a comic.

 

[andrepoiy]

????

[kernals12]

https://dailyhive.com/toronto/ontario-survey-highway-413

Survey finds 48% of Ontarians either support or "could accept" construction of Hwy 413 vs 30% who oppose.

Glad to see the public hasn't internalized the Urban middle class bigotry against suburbia

[kernals12]

Complete Tory Sweep of Brampton. If that's not a mandate for Hwy 413, I don't know what is.

[andrepoiy]

I think this might be getting too much into politics but the Torys also flipped some historically NDP/Liberal seats too outside of Brampton. (Timmins, Windsor-Tecumseth, Essex, Hamilton East for example). Interesting.

[kernals12]

I think this might be getting too much into politics but the Torys also flipped some historically NDP/Liberal seats too outside of Brampton. (Timmins, Windsor-Tecumseth, Essex, Hamilton East for example). Interesting.

But after years of sheer hysteria about that highway, enough to make you think that its construction would cause a Looney Tunes style ecological collapse with plants wilting and birds falling out of the sky, you'd think it would've been political poison in the areas where it's supposed to be built. It's remarkable how much the internet is an echo chamber.

[Alps]

I think this might be getting too much into politics but the Torys also flipped some historically NDP/Liberal seats too outside of Brampton. (Timmins, Windsor-Tecumseth, Essex, Hamilton East for example). Interesting.

But after years of sheer hysteria about that highway, enough to make you think that its construction would cause a Looney Tunes style ecological collapse with plants wilting and birds falling out of the sky, you'd think it would've been political poison in the areas where it's supposed to be built. It's remarkable how much the internet is an echo chamber.

keep any political discussions to how the party treats highways, thx

[AsphaltPlanet]

View of the 407 looking easterly from Lake Ridge Road in Whitby:


http://www.asphaltplanet.ca/ON/hwy_407-409_images/407_cl_111_east_WB_Jun22_24x16.jpg

[Stephane Dumas]

"Lake Ridge Road", I wonder if that would made a song as good as "Lake Shore Drive"?

[AsphaltPlanet]

Easterly view of the Grand River Bridge in Kitchener from the Conestoga Pedestrian Bridge.  The bridge is being replaced, and traffic was just diverted from the former westbound lanes to the new bridge:


http://www.asphaltplanet.ca/ON/hwy_401_images/401_cl_275_east_WB_Jun22_24x16.jpg


http://www.asphaltplanet.ca/ON/hwy_401_images/401_cl_275_east_c_Jun22_24x16.jpg


http://www.asphaltplanet.ca/ON/hwy_401_images/401_cl_275_east_EB_Jun22_24x16.jpg

[AsphaltPlanet]

Views looking both directions from Trafalgar Road in Milton from last week:

Two views looking west:

http://www.asphaltplanet.ca/ON/hwy_401_images/401_cl_328_west_c-w_Jun22_24x16.jpg


http://www.asphaltplanet.ca/ON/hwy_401_images/401_cl_328_west_WB_Jun22_24x16.jpg

Two easterly views from Trafalgar Road:

http://www.asphaltplanet.ca/ON/hwy_401_images/401_cl_328_east_EB-t_Jun22_24x16.jpg


http://www.asphaltplanet.ca/ON/hwy_401_images/401_cl_328_east_WB-t_Jun22_24x16.jpg

[andrepoiy]

Views looking both directions from Trafalgar Road in Milton from last week:

Two views looking west:

http://www.asphaltplanet.ca/ON/hwy_401_images/401_cl_328_west_c-w_Jun22_24x16.jpg


http://www.asphaltplanet.ca/ON/hwy_401_images/401_cl_328_west_WB_Jun22_24x16.jpg

Two easterly views from Trafalgar Road:

http://www.asphaltplanet.ca/ON/hwy_401_images/401_cl_328_east_EB-t_Jun22_24x16.jpg


http://www.asphaltplanet.ca/ON/hwy_401_images/401_cl_328_east_WB-t_Jun22_24x16.jpg

If only transit projects can progress this quickly...

[webny99]

Finally made it up to Canada last week for the first time in nearly 2-1/2 years! That was easily the longest stretch of my life without crossing the border, seeing as I used to cross quite frequently prior to covid.

It was early morning (enroute to YYZ to catch a flight) so traffic was very light and the border was completely clear. There's still construction at QEW/Glendale Avenue, which is being redesigned, and that seemed to be progressing from what I could tell. Toronto-bound traffic exiting at Glendale now passes under Glendale to exit via a new single-lane loop and the old two-lane exit is now closed.

The ramp from QEW Toronto to 403 WB/407/ETR in Burlington was closed, seemingly a night closure, which foiled my plans to suggest 407/ETR to 403 as an alternate route in hopes of picking up some new mileage on the 407. (Barring the closure, that part of 407/ETR is Google's suggested route from home to anywhere beyond Mississauga, as it's a bit shorter and much less congestion-prone than QEW through Oakville, but we always take the QEW to save the tolls, which are exorbitant by Thruway standards  )

[andrepoiy]

but we always take the QEW to save the tolls, which are exorbitant by Thruway standards  )

Or the majority of tollways in North America anyways