Recent content by Haljackey

Niagara Area Highway Improvement stuff Highway 58 is a full freeway from the 406 through the Welland Canal tunnel. I've always wondered why it wasn't extended to the QEW; potentially meeting up at the 420 interchange. This would give you a freeway alternate for the Garden City Skyway, a...

Just built a free LRT along the Niagara Parkway between Clifton Hill and Horseshoe falls to start. You can extend it further each way after. Simple.

At the very most, I could see the 427 going up to the Bradford Bypass- that would give you an alternate to the 400 so it isn't a single point of failure, at least up to here. Problem is the 427 interchange at the 413 is designed to be a 3-way, same with the connector for the Bradford Bypass and...

Seems relatively easy to do too. I think all the overpasses can accommodate an extra lane, although the flyover for 403 WB at the 407 would lose its shoulder without a rebuild. Building the missing ramps at QEW/403 may also be part of it

Planned highway and expansion projects in Toronto area From this document- page 25 https://highway413.ca/en/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Highway-413-draft-EIAR-December-2025.pdf

People need to understand that the HOV lane is not the passing lane, despite being the leftmost lane. It can be frustrating to be behind a slowpoke yes, but those are the dice you throw when you commit to using this lane. Just get out at the next weave zone if you want. Seeing how blatantly...

The HOV buffer zone is double white striped with slashes with DO NOT CROSS signs littered throughout the highway. Saying you didn't realize you're not allowed to cross the buffer seems inexcusable. That's good. Maybe that transfer zone was just a experiment that the MTO concluded was a failure...

Small rant but what's with all the drivers crossing the HOV buffer whenever they please? Seems like this is not being enforced because drivers are zig-zagging in and out all the time. As someone who is trying to obey the law, this is frustrating AF and seems dangerous for those who may not be...

Not goona happen sadly. This was an election issue and is a good item to bring up to distract people from other things Douggie's government is doing. Best to just tune it out if you can.

That seems needlessly excessive for the volumes here. Just twinning the existing road, or making it 5 lanes with a centre turn lane is all you need. Like you said a lot of traffic is stopping here for a rest and/or food and fuel so bypassing the businesses seems dumb to me. However I do...

I drove this during the summer and while good, there's still a lot of work to do on twinning the entire stretch. What I found surprising is there aren't really any definite plans for the twinning through Nipigon itself. Likely still in-design and will be the last section to get twinned. It...

I'd rather one giant highway vs 3-4 smaller highways cutting your city up into pieces. Widening makes sense in some bottlenecked areas. Tunneling seems like a stupidly expensive way to do that, but it is a way.

So... should have "one more lane bro'd" the rebuilt section? That would have added time and cost to the project but could have yielded a continuous aux lane between interchanges. You'd get more weaving however. Is there at least a shoulder now as part of this work? That would help things move...

Widening the skyway bridge strictly for HOVs does seem excessive. Simply converting one GP lane on the bridge to HOV should work. I know the government wants HOVs to be entirely new capacity but this could be an exception. As for possibly dropping HOVs- I wonder if that might just kill anything...

Could a lane on the Burlington Skyway be cannibalized and converted to HOV? That way you could eventually run HOVs all the way to the 406, perhaps 405 if somehow pushed through St Cathrines as the Garden City Skyway twinning should be able to handle it.