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Originally Posted by Reignman
this has become one very dangerous highway. Maybe the worst in Canada.
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I fully agree the Perimeter is a dangerous highway but not just the south Perimeter, the whole thing. Gunn Rd at the Perimeter has been the scene of many bad accidents and has not been on the highway all that long. There was a high profile incident of a vehicle leaving the bridge near Henderson Hwy.
My personal "worst intersection on the Perimeter" award goes to west bound Wilkes and south bound Perimeter. The "merge" lane is extremely short and after a 180 degree turn making it virtually impossible to be fully up to speed when you merge.
The biggest issue with the Perimeter in general the almost completely lack of merge/exit lanes coupled with at grade intersections, especially the unsignaled ones. Compounding the issue is the general lack of awareness on how to properly drive on a multilane roadway, specifically the common practice of failing to yield the left lane to merging traffic.