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considering a lane-kilometre of 400-series highway can cost as little as $5 million.. understandably more. For the same level of investment it is costing to extend the subway 1 kilometre into Scarborough, MTO is building 100 kilometres of freeway expansion to extend Highway 400 towards Sudbury...

I drove the QEW HOVs this morning for example and it saved me maybe 30 seconds total. When the GP lanes slowed down, so did the HOVs.. just slightly less. The one HOV that always saves a tonne of time is the SB 404 to WB 401 HOV ramp. That one is a really useful connection.

the province is spending about $4 billion on highways in 2025. Most of which is maintenance capital - repaving, bridge replacements, etc. Just keeping existing assets in good shape. As of today there is exactly 3 highway expansion contracts underway in the entire province - the Highway 3...

My experience lately is that HOVs rarely operate with significant time savings over the GP lanes anyway. Or at least not on the QEW. There may be a marginal time difference in AM peak, but on weekends and during PM peak there is effectively no difference.

Something like this: At ~4.4 km, you are probably looking at about $1 billion to tunnel it as per latest cost comparables and $2-3 billion for fitout and a mined terminal station at Union. If you are willing to cut travel speeds you could probably reduce the tunnel length to something closer...

going to have some absolutely incredible ceiling heights for a hotel! Great to see more and more hotel supply coming online downtown as well. We all know it's badly needed.

one more comment about this one - Open-air Type G loading? When has the city ever allowed that in the downtown? Definitely a great cost-cutting measure.

I don't entirely disagree - as I said, I don't think the City needs to be running around building 700sf 3-beds and 400sf 1-beds like some industry builders do. They should be targeting functional, simple units without excess space - which tends to align closer to the numbers I quoted - 550-600sf...

I'm doubtful of Kennedy if only because of space limitations on the corridor. I doubt Metrolinx is going to want Alto intermixing with its services on the corridor. Plus - It's simply slow. The biggest curve you'd be able to get at Agincourt is maybe 75mph, and that's with quite a bit of...

You too can play in fantasy land of oversized units and overkill elevator ratios with fancy architecture when you are playing with public tax dollars! woo-wee! Seriously. The city is wasting the ability to house probably an extra 100 families or so here by their little games with oversized...

Much like the Bradford Bypass, the 413 is going to solve a lot more traffic issues on local roads than it will on other freeways. The 413 is going to pull a lot of traffic off local arterials in Brampton, and exactly like you said, make it easier to build safer local streets. The Dutch model...

case in point, Twice (K-pop) has two nights booked in Hamilton and is the only headliner to book the entire stadium capacity for TD so far.. and with two nights as well!

At this point they would basically either need to destroy a nature preserve in the Oak Ridge Moraine or do a tunnel of some sort to get it through there. When you look at google maps it doesn't appear overly urbanized but that's because it's a large nature preserve. Mind you, highway tunnels...

Anecdotally I've heard that it will be numbered and that MTO has provisionally selected the number. It just hasn't been made public yet for whatever reason. I think right now they enjoy not calling it a 400-series highway as it makes the project seem less impactful. A "bypass" seems a lot more...

I'm really concerned about wind conditions around this building. I'd love to see if they put absolutely any thought to that issue.

once again, these renderings are not accurate. The cladding will specifically look like this - right out of the materials drawings from SPA. We will not be getting a mysterious BMU slot at the roof, nor will we get "mismatched" facades. The SPA drawings also match how the podium has come...

The 401/I75 combo is especially important in "just in time manufacturing" which has been designed to cut costs. Even if rail can do it cheaper, manufacturers have determined it's actually cheaper to spend more on faster shipping of materials as needed instead of maintaining large stocks...

An HOV buffer only adds 0.5 metres to a highway width. It's not really enough for an extra lane. MTO could probably squeeze an extra lane on the QEW but it would have to accept substandard shoulder widths. A 5-lane cross section of GP lanes needs 18.75 metres of platform width excluding...

nah, this will end up as 488 or something. I really don't see MTO giving it the same designation as the 413 as it really doesn't serve the same function. Highway 408 is also not currently in use and could work.

The draft EIAR is now available for review for the 413. https://highway413.ca/en/ This marks the completion of the Environmental Assessment phase for the 413. For comparison, the EIAR for the Bradford Bypass was completed at the end of 2023 and will now be seeing major construction start in...