Roads: Ontario/GTA Highways Discussion

[innsertnamehere]

small note, but the new PC platform for 2018 promises to resume the EA for GTA West after the liberals have left it in complete hiatus mode for years now.

 

[TransitBart]

small note, but the new PC platform for 2018 promises to resume the EA for GTA West after the liberals have left it in complete hiatus mode for years now.

Is that the 413 Vaughan to Milton link?

 

[innsertnamehere]

Yea the ring road around Brampton

 

[Johnny Au]

The Kirby/Mayfield Freeway is interesting, but is not something that needs to be built immediately.

 

[innsertnamehere]

MTo isn't planning to build it immediately. At this point it is more about corridor protection, making sure that subdivisions aren't built where the highway needs to go.

 

[Leo_Chan]

MTo isn't planning to build it immediately. At this point it is more about corridor protection, making sure that subdivisions aren't built where the highway needs to go.

Is GTA West (413) higher or lower in priority than 404 to Hwy 12/48?

 

[TransitBart]

Is GTA West (413) higher or lower in priority than 404 to Hwy 12/48?

1. Is the EA for that portion of 404 done?
2. Please. Please. Build now...

 

[innsertnamehere]

EA was done in 2002 under the harris government.. They then went and built the first bit to Ravenshoe.

I agree it needs to go up to Sutton/48. Don't know if it really needs to go all the way to 12..

The focus in that area right now is trying to get the Bradford Bypass built first, which is a new freeway between the 400 and 404 directly north of Bradford.

The EA would need to be updated as well since it is now 15 years old.

 

[Edward Skira]

News Release

Ontario Opens New Lanes On Highway 410
November 28, 2017

Two Additional Lanes Will Increase Traffic Flow, Improve Commutes
Ontario has opened two new lanes on Highway 410, from Highway 401 to Queen Street in Brampton, to improve traffic flow and get commuters and families moving.

Steven Del Duca, Minister of Transportation, Amrit Mangat, MPP for Mississauga-Brampton South, and Vic Dhillon, MPP for Brampton West was in Brampton today. They were joined by Linda Jeffrey, Mayor of Brampton, to open the new lanes--one in each direction--which bring this 12-kilometre portion of Highway 410 to a total of eight lanes. Two more lanes will open in fall 2018, widening the highway to ten lanes and creating or sustaining approximately 1,100 jobs.

Ontario is making the largest infrastructure investment in hospitals, schools, public transit, roads and bridges in the province's history. To learn more about what's happening in your community, go to Ontario.ca/BuildON.

Making transit more convenient for commuters and families is part of Ontario's plan to create fairness and opportunity during this period of rapid economic change. The plan includes a higher minimum wage and better working conditions, free tuition for hundreds of thousands of students, easier access to affordable child care, and free prescription drugs for everyone under 25 through the biggest expansion of medicare in a generation.


QUICK FACTS

• Ontario is investing approximately $156.7 million in this project.
• Between 175,000 and 215,000 vehicles use this section of Highway 410 every day.
• The new northbound lane, from Courtney Park to south of Queen Street, opened on October 31, and the new southbound lane, from Queen Street to Highway 401, opened today.
• Ontario is investing more than $2.5 billion to repair and expand provincial highways and bridges across the province, creating 17, 500 jobs.

 

[TOareaFan]

^The improvement in the morning south bound commute is already noticable......not so much in the evening NB commute yet as a couple of areas are causing traffic to jam up.

1. still only one lane open coming off of the 401 so time from veering off to the ramp to clearing, say, Courtney Park can still be excruciating
2. where the new lanes end at Queen it is very awkward....we have gone, now, to two lanes being forced exits at Queen....people are having trouble adapting to to it and a lot of late merges to the left are causing a back up....hopefully, with time, this will sort itself out (although, it has been an issue for about 3 weeks now and I grow less convinced daily that it actually will sort itself out).

 

[Haljackey]

Are the new ramps to/from 401 open yet, or is this coming later?

401EB to 403 WB
410NB to 401 WB

 

[TOareaFan]

Are the new ramps to/from 401 open yet, or is this coming later?

401EB to 403 WB
410NB to 401 WB

Have no idea...I would never be on any of those ramps so I don't even know if they were even under construction........there is still work being done on the 410SB (under the 401) to 403 S/W bound....but those ramps will need someone else to answer.

 

[drum118]

Are the new ramps to/from 401 open yet, or is this coming later?

401EB to 403 WB
410NB to 401 WB

Opens in early 2018

 

[cbrown2009]

Opens in early 2018

That may be on paper somewhere, but the ground they will run on has been barely prepped let alone properly graded and ready for any paving. 401E to 403W isn’t even close to being done early works. Early 2018 sounds very optimistic to me.

 

[Haljackey]

Have no idea...I would never be on any of those ramps so I don't even know if they were even under construction........there is still work being done on the 410SB (under the 401) to 403 S/W bound....but those ramps will need someone else to answer.

Yes these ramps will have rather limited use but they will be welcomed connections. It's a good way to bypass Hurontario Street. Will essentially give Cawthra Road full access to the 401.

It will also mean that the largest interchange in Canada (I believe), 401-403-410, will finally be a 'complete' interchange.