Toronto Eglinton Line 5 | ?m | ?s | Metrolinx | Arcadis

[Steve X]

The configuration you illustrated is the interchange's previous configuration, which they changed because of the danger of weaving on the DVP. The weaving on Eglinton is not an issue because you can just use normal intersections instead of high speed ramps. But you can't do that on the DVP.

One of my favourite things about the MTO is that they hate cloverleaf weaving as much as I do. If then MTO controlled the DVP I'm pretty sure they would have converted the Lawrence interchange from a full cloverleaf to a partial cloverleaf a long time ago.

The Lawrence coverleaf is stretched out so there is more time for drivers to switch lanes. At Eglinton, it's much shorter so there are more problems. The Don Mills interchange also has a shorter distance but less people use that on ramp from NB Don Mills to SB DVP. They also removed the NW loop at York Mills for weaving issues.

I say the most problematic spot isn't these coverleaves but the Rees on ramp to EB Gardiner to the Jarvis off ramp. That gets a lot of traffic being the last places to enter and exit the Gardiner without going all the way to the DVP.