Tunnel or Blue Water Bridge for me, always
Ambassador might crumble before Gordie Howe opens. Shoddy maintenance and a daily beating from transports are taking their toll. Just look at the missing letter lights
I assume once Gordie Howe opens, Ambassador could take advantage of the lower...
I disagree,
The bridge is like 100% complete and it's wasted time, money and resources if that infrastructure isn't at least somewhat utilized. Every day it sits unused is one less day in it's usable life. Getting it operating will let us start recuperating the toll costs, and get revenue...
Bradford Bypass will be minimal but the 413 will take some stress off the 401 for those west of Toronto who want to get to the 400. It may only be 1-a couple % of the traffic but it is something.
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...
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.