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Roads: Ontario/GTA Highways Discussion

Merging and braking in the passing lane. You end up with people "camping" in the left lane to make their exit and people merging into the left lane doing 80km/h with cars behind them doing 130.
 
Another solution to combine the service centre for both directions, but requires a single bridge overpass - Austria near Vienna:
https://www.google.ca/maps/@48.0574457,16.713785,844m/data=!3m1!1e3

A good solution given it doesn't have the safety issue of left lane exits. And building and maintaining one bridge pales in comparison to the cost of a second service centre.
 
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The one at Sequin Trail is currently used by Greyhound on the Sudbury - Toronto bus as a pitstop. It's also the last Lick's open.
 
Maybe 11 north of Huntsville. 407 is definitely a commuter route that's not suitable for an OnRoute

And there is not an Onroute on the 401 between Cambridge and Newcastle. If the 401 is not suitable within the GTA then likewise the 407 is not as well. Although I am surprised that Ontario did not provision for a future Onroute in the extension (at least expropriate the land for one).

Does anyone know when they will get rid of the eastbound eyesore of the abandoned Onroute in Mississauga? The land must be valuable and can be developed into industrial.
 
And there is not an Onroute on the 401 between Cambridge and Newcastle. If the 401 is not suitable within the GTA then likewise the 407 is not as well.

The MTO probably didn't think a service centre would be needed in Toronto back in the day when most people had their trips origin or destination in the city. Even today that's probably the case and the reason the one in Mississauga was closed.
 
MTO wouldn't like that as it requires left exits and entrances - which is a bit no-no.

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Merging and braking in the passing lane. You end up with people "camping" in the left lane to make their exit and people merging into the left lane doing 80km/h with cars behind them doing 130.

Well, the MTO didn't have a problem building left lane exits and merges when they built the 416.

I guess they might be loathe to do it again, because their implementation caused all sorts of issues there. They didn't realize that people might want to exit at Moodie Dr, needing to cross 3 lanes of traffic in a short time. The "solution" was to wall it off and cut off access to Moodie.
 
The MTO probably didn't think a service centre would be needed in Toronto back in the day when most people had their trips origin or destination in the city. Even today that's probably the case and the reason the one in Mississauga was closed.

Didn't the lease come up for this one and due to the eventual need for the land to widen the 401 through the area, MTO didn't renew?
 

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