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Ya, it's pretty embarrassing. The alignment remains unchanged from the time before the centre barrier was installed and left turns were allowed between the mid-70s and early 80s. Since nothing else changed, there was no need to expropriate any business or residence; they still had legal access to the highway. The problem for businesses was they lost half of the traffic. That's why Webers installed the bridge.
Look back though the thread and you will find the info and use the search engine for it.. You can try urbantoronto Oshawa 10 lanes in the browser search
MTO has been redoing all the bridges in Oshawa for it - the plan is to ultimately extend the collector - express lanes to the 412 then 10 lanes to the 418, and 8 lanes to 35.
www.ctvnews.ca
MTO is in early stages of a study on how to address this.
Even better than. If this is the case its possible to expect phases of this whole highway 3 project similar to highway 3 in Leamington/Essex
Highbury Avenue actually used to be a provincial highway (126), and it was downloaded to London in the early 90s.
While it probably warrants being returned by the province as a provincial highway, I doubt it warrants being upgraded to 400-series standards.
I'm sure slapping a 4 and 2 other #s on this baby won't kill anyone. Besides, I think Ontario needs to expand its 400 series network and convert some existing highways to 400 series highways, 11 from Barrie to North Bay, and Highway 115 from Bowmanville to Peterborough, converting those two to the 411 and 415. Extend Highway 8 to Stratford and then either convert Highway 8 to Highway 408 or build a 408 between the 401 in Cambridge and Highway 403 in Brantford. The 413 is being built, so that's taken care of. I am betting on the Bradford bypass becoming Highway 414. Maybe this could be the 419
If you think designating a highway as a 400-series is simply a matter of assigning a number you would be mistaken. It is an entire set of build standards.
