Trans Canada Highway Twinning: Segments U/C

[Metro-One]

Originally Posted by craner

Yeah - it would only take a minimal underpass to accommodate the limited movements required at Field. Get rid of lights on the TCH for Christ sakes - don’t be adding more of them.

Yeah, send them your comment.

I am okay with using a mix of interchanges and protected Ts, but no signals. As soon as an intersection needs a traffic light on the #1 then it needs to be an interchange.

They are proposing numerous wildlife underpasses and overpassed, some as wide as 60m, so you think they can construct one or two vehicle / pedestrian overpasses and underpasses along a 40km route...

[craner]

^Exactly.
I did send my feedback stating such.

[Dengler Avenue]

Originally Posted by craner

^Exactly.
I did send my feedback stating such.

I hope the pro-interchange side gets real vocal this time.

[Dengler Avenue]

I was looking at the map of Eastern Canada then I started wondering: If there were a freeway connection from Sherbrooke to St Stephen through Northern Maine, would N.B.-2 and part of QC-185 have been twinned? I would think no.

[Djeffery]

I think it would have, maybe at a slower pace than it did. I don't think we would want to rely on 2 international crossings to be the main connection between the Atlantic provinces and the rest of Canada.

[MonctonRad]

Originally Posted by Djeffery

I think it would have, maybe at a slower pace than it did. I don't think we would want to rely on 2 international crossings to be the main connection between the Atlantic provinces and the rest of Canada.

Indeed, and the Yanks are now a capricious and fickle lot; no longer our firm and fastest friends. An all Canadian route is mandatory IMHO.

[Dengler Avenue]

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...241937&page=11
Please propose methods to populate and sustain Northern Ontario.
And by that I mean places like Wawa, White River, Marathon, Terrace Bay, Schreiber, Nipigon, Upsala, Ignace, Dryden, Vermillion Bay and Kenora.

[swimmer_spe]

Originally Posted by Dengler Avenue

I was looking at the map of Eastern Canada then I started wondering: If there were a freeway connection from Sherbrooke to St Stephen through Northern Maine, would N.B.-2 and part of QC-185 have been twinned? I would think no.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East%E...y_(New_England)

You mean that?

[Dengler Avenue]

Originally Posted by swimmer_spe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East%E...y_(New_England)

You mean that?

That, and a freeway link between Bangor and St Stephen. But as MonctonRad said, the U.S. really didn’t wanna do it so they just put a roundabout at the border crossing at Calais.

[swimmer_spe]

Originally Posted by Dengler Avenue

That, and a freeway link between Bangor and St Stephen. But as MonctonRad said, the U.S. really didn’t wanna do it so they just put a roundabout at the border crossing at Calais.

Right now they don't. One day, if they see a need for it, I could see it put in. No different than any other highway construction.

[Djeffery]

What benefit to Maine would this project bring, after spending huge dollars to build 250 or so miles of new highway through less than ideal terrain?

[Tone]

Quelques photos de l'Autoroute 85

Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! - Cabano segment in May 2010














Cabano - Notre-Dame-du-Lac segment in August 2013

[Dengler Avenue]

https://canada.constructconnect.com/...se-moves-ahead

TCH twinning near Chase, B.C., is going ahead.

[Dengler Avenue]

Alright it turns out that B.C. NDP is trying to quietly cheap out on this project by replacing the interchange in the original design with 2 T-protected intersections.

What we did with B.C.-97 through Kelowna and with TCH skimming by Field, B.C., we will do again with Chase.

Where are our SSP-ers from Interior B.C.? This sudden change in design can be seen as an utmost form of betrayal. The only contact information is here:

Maike Schimpf
Project Manager
Telephone: 250 828-4976

Tell them to bring back the interchange. No NDP-style cheap out like that SFPR.

[Metro-One]

To be fair the SFPR was a cheap out by the Liberals.... but to be double fair the NDPs plan at the time as opposition was to full out cancel and not build the SFPR or any other replacement road project in its absence.

As for the project at hand, it was depicted clearly as an interchange at all community consultations and within all resources up until this announcement.

An 11th hour cheap out.

[swimmer_spe]

Originally Posted by Dengler Avenue

Alright it turns out that B.C. NDP is trying to quietly cheap out on this project by replacing the interchange in the original design with 2 T-protected intersections.

What we did with B.C.-97 through Kelowna and with TCH skimming by Field, B.C., we will do again with Chase.

Where are our SSP-ers from Interior B.C.? This sudden change in design can be seen as an utmost form of betrayal. The only contact information is here:

Maike Schimpf
Project Manager
Telephone: 250 828-4976

Tell them to bring back the interchange. No NDP-style cheap out like that SFPR.

The reality is, all BC governments cheap out. This is nothing new.

[Dengler Avenue]

Originally Posted by swimmer_spe

The reality is, all BC governments cheap out. This is nothing new.

I wonder if this has been a pattern even before environmentalism was a thing. From what I remember, when B.C. completed its own portion of TCH, because the feds didn't chip in (?), B.C. just celebrated the completion lowkey.

But seriously, this is an act of betrayal.

[swimmer_spe]

Originally Posted by Dengler Avenue

I wonder if this has been a pattern even before environmentalism was a thing. From what I remember, when B.C. completed its own portion of TCH, because the feds didn't chip in (?), B.C. just celebrated the completion lowkey.

But seriously, this is an act of betrayal.

Drive their highways and you will see that they don't do anything unless they have to.

[craner]

Originally Posted by Metro-One

To be fair the SFPR was a cheap out by the Liberals.... but to be double fair the NDPs plan at the time as opposition was to full out cancel and not build the SFPR or any other replacement road project in its absence.

As for the project at hand, it was depicted clearly as an interchange at all community consultations and within all resources up until this announcement.

An 11th hour cheap out.

That’s brutal - FFS.

[Corndogger]

Originally Posted by Dengler Avenue

Alright it turns out that B.C. NDP is trying to quietly cheap out on this project by replacing the interchange in the original design with 2 T-protected intersections.

What we did with B.C.-97 through Kelowna and with TCH skimming by Field, B.C., we will do again with Chase.

Where are our SSP-ers from Interior B.C.? This sudden change in design can be seen as an utmost form of betrayal. The only contact information is here:

Maike Schimpf
Project Manager
Telephone: 250 828-4976

Tell them to bring back the interchange. No NDP-style cheap out like that SFPR.

I just had a look at the project page. That seems like a very minor project even with an interchange.