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Not only is the existing 410 extension alignment to a much lower design speed, the layout does not really accommodate future widening beyond 2 lanes per direction. I wonder if the intention was to always treat this as a placeholder extension until 413 was built. And although this project...

A rather inconvenient location due to being south of the rail tracks. You're almost closer to Islington/Bloor than Kipling/Bloor for walking. Kipling you'd have to either take the long bridge over the railway or cut through the TTC station. It would make getting to the new proposed Etobicoke...

Think 1 HOV + 3 General lanes in each direction, plus standard width shoulders and speed change lanes as required. Eventually the HOV will extend from Burlington to Hwy 427.

HOV to Kitchener will be game-changing. A lot of transit between the two areas is on GO Busses.

Great photos. Probably the most significant bridge over water built in the GTA in a long time. Big temporary changes to the on-ramps; I see huge traffic backups on traffic maps.

This will be along the south service road and it's right up to the property line of the mall, so it is maximizing parking lot area. Could they have negotiated a few more metres of property for some nice space for some sodding on a decent slope? Who knows if this was considered several years ago...

I never understood why more drivers coming in from Mississauga/Milton on the 401 don't stay in the express lanes. From what I see, almost always the collectors jams up where 410 merges and the express is moving quickly until the usual slow down approaching 427.

Higher radius is not just capacity but safety also - drivers don't need to change their speed. It appears these will all be two lane ramps so adding a 3rd lane won't do much (Highway is only 2 lanes per direction anyways).

Typically those future dates like 2041 are really just a placeholder for "whenever it's needed", based on cost-benefit analyses. It's definitely not worth it to build 8 lanes now if you can defer that extra cost down the line. The road and bridges, etc. are designed to easily accommodate the...

Here's project website. https://www.qewdixiedetaildesign.ca/study-background-overview/ Eventually it will get taken down, so here is a snip from the preliminary design to get an idea of how it will look like when finished:

Interestingly, the Eglinton Crosstown and Highway 413 are both in the same order of magnitude of cost - $5B (property acquisitions for each are another matter). Both are forecasted to have about 5,000 users per direction in the peak hour and 200,000 daily users. There is no answer as to...

MTO itself agrees with you. That's why after the separate 401/Hurontario and 401/Mavis interchange projects, they put out a mega Infrastructure Ontario project which includes Mississauga Road, Winston Churchill, 407ETR, Trafalgar Road, James Snow Parkway, and Regional Road 25 in a single...

If you've been paying attention, you'll see that far more is being spent on transit than roadways. GO expansion/electrification, Scarborough Subway, Yonge Extension, Eglinton, Finch, Ontario Line, Hamilton LRT, Hurontario LRT. So you can put the "stop building highways if you don't build...

Very few, if any, projects actually simply add an additional general lane to a highway. They either add HOV/managed lanes, are combined with bridge replacements, rehabilitations, or convert express/collector lanes, increase safety by extending merge/weaving distances, etc. So many articles...

Road bad. Why don't people just take the Milton - Vaughan subway??

Do they have the capability to eventually mail/deliver bags to the address on whatever tags the bag has? Or is the only option for the passenger to eventually return to the airport to claim it.

Pretty sure engineers/planners don't base decisions for traffic patterns at 3am when everything is flowing freely. Hell, 413 could actually save 'up to 2 hours' if there are big accidents on 401/400. The biggest advantage aside from time saving though is the increased redundancy, alternate...

Save little time you say? :rolleyes: https://www.highway413.ca/2021/03/31/timesavings/

Beautiful Drone work kok. Junctionist: environmentalists run the show now and piers in the water are to be avoided at all costs. Shame for those spoiled kayakers who will actually get to see the bridge from below.

Of course from a Toronto perspective most would want 401 improved. But the government representatives from Brampton, Caledon, Vaughan all support the 413 (until they stopped supporting it, and then changed their minds again...or something).