ninetykman
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GTA needs more highways now. The traffic is now one of the worst in the world, at par with 3rd world countries. I am not a supporter of DOFO but he can do it. A bridge across the lake connecting suburbs should be be built.
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Roads: Ontario/GTA Highways Discussion
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TOareaFan
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ok....i'll bite.....a bridge from where to where?
marcus_a_j
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It's obvious, Sutton to Orillia. The new OPP Commissioner doesn't have time to wait in traffic around Barrie, so a 404 extension and bridge will get him from his new house in Weston to his new office pronto!
innsertnamehere
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i'm guessing he meant Toronto-St Catharines.. but yea - not gunna happen.
Maybe a Barrie By-pass on the east side with a bridge over Kempenfelt Bay?
Maybe a Barrie By-pass on the east side with a bridge over Kempenfelt Bay?
JasonParis
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By your standards, L.A. must be a traffic nirvana.
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But "Take the 406 to the '6" has a catchy slogan ready to go.
TOareaFan
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Really, you don't think it is a good idea to spend billions on a bridge that bypasses/misses where most of the people live?
timio
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^ only if you add bike lanes.
BurlOak
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I assumed Humber to Rouge. More along the lake than across.
Steve X
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TO lacks a signature bridge. They should widen the Don River and build the Gardiner with a suspension bridge since the are rebuilding it.
innsertnamehere
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umm. Our bridge just celebrated it's centnennial:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Edward_Viaduct
The next "big" bridge that may actually get built in Toronto likely won't even carry cars - it'll probably carry subway trains over the Don Valley as part of the DRL North. I wouldn't be surprised if it ends up as a cable stay bridge.
There are lots of nice big bridges in Ontario, but most of them are border bridges, so I feel like most people don't get to experience them regularly. The "biggest" domestic bridge is probably the Burlington Skyway.. but Ontario has a ton of big bridges once you count border bridges:
Peace Bridge
Rainbow Bridge
Ambassador Bridge
Burlington Skyway
Queenston Lewiston Bridge
Garden City Skyway
Bluewater Bridge
Thousand Islands Bridge
Odgensburg-Prescott International Bridge
Seaway International Bridge
Sault Ste Marie International Bridge
Plus the under construction Gordie Howe Bridge..
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umm. Our bridge just celebrated it's centnennial:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Edward_Viaduct
The next "big" bridge that may actually get built in Toronto likely won't even carry cars - it'll probably carry subway trains over the Don Valley as part of the DRL North. I wouldn't be surprised if it ends up as a cable stay bridge.
There are lots of nice big bridges in Ontario, but most of them are border bridges, so I feel like most people don't get to experience them regularly. The "biggest" domestic bridge is probably the Burlington Skyway.. but Ontario has a ton of big bridges once you count border bridges:
Peace Bridge
Rainbow Bridge
Ambassador Bridge
Burlington Skyway
Queenston Lewiston Bridge
Garden City Skyway
Bluewater Bridge
Thousand Islands Bridge
Odgensburg-Prescott International Bridge
Seaway International Bridge
Sault Ste Marie International Bridge
Plus the under construction Gordie Howe Bridge..
I'd add the Alexandra Bridge between Ottawa and Hull.
The most impressive intraprovincial bridges in Ontario are the two skyways and the new twinned cable-stayed Nipigon River Bridge on Highways 11/17. Of course, that's the new bridge that failed not that long ago, making it impossible to drive from western to eastern Canada without going through the United States. (It's been fixed since.)
Toronto needs a "signature bridge" just as much as Los Angeles or Chicago. Or Paris, which doesn't have a signature bridge despite its location on a major river. Boston didn't have one until they decided they needed a cable-stayed bridge over the Charles as part of their Big Dig, a bridge that is wider than it is long.
Between the Humber Bay pedestrian bridge and the Prince Edward Viaduct, Toronto does alright, anyway.
ninetykman
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maybe a beltway...right now there is no connectivity midtown. Both Allen and the 400 should be connected to the Gardiner. And maybe a tollway east of the 404. As for the bridges, I would love to see signature bridge across the lake, maybe to the Skyway.
knlaruw
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That will literally never happen. We tried that in the 1950s to 1970s.
treplow
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Doug Ford will order the Annex to be razed to make way for a Decarie style "People's Trench".