Highways In Canada II

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by Innsertnamehere

Explosives used in blasting aren't that strong from my understanding. It's usually small "slots" with rudimentary TNT dropped in to cause the rock to fracture and enable it to be broken up. They aren't blowing it to smithereens or anything.

OK thanks. That's why they are engineers and I am not.

[Dartguard]

Originally Posted by MonctonRad

I believe they call it the "New Brunswick Welcome Fee" now.

Either that or the "Fuck You New Brunswick Fee."

I forget which............

Its actually a direct contributor to Grocery prices in Newfoundland. Every Truck going to the Rock passes through the Cobequid at I think $4 an axle.

I still have my Halifax Bridge transponder programmed for the Cobequid so I can just go through the E pass lane. Very quick and efficient. It takes about thirty to 40 extra seconds to pay the Toll should you have to.

[haljackey]

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[Innsertnamehere]

https://environmentaldefence.ca/2024...esponsibility/

Ignoring the highly inflammatory language in this, the Feds have apparently agreed to withdraw their requirement for a federal environmental assessment on the 413.

This means that the highway must now only proceed through the provinces much reduced environmental assessment process.

[haljackey]

Cool drone video of Gordie Howe featuring concrete work

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[Innsertnamehere]

https://news.ontario.ca/en/release/1...y-speed-limits

Ontario Raising Highway Speed Limits

The Ontario government is raising the speed limit permanently from 100 km/h to 110 km/h on 10 additional sections of provincial highways in northern and southern Ontario. The change builds on the safe and successful increase to six sections of provincial highways in 2022 and aligns with posted speed limits in other jurisdictions across Canada.

“Most of Ontario’s highways were originally designed to safely accommodate speed limits of 110 km/h and the data from our changes in 2022 shows they do just that,” said Prabmeet Sarkaria, Minister of Transportation. “These evidence-based increases are a common-sense change to make life more convenient for Ontario drivers while bringing our highway speed limits in line with other Canadian provinces.”

Starting July 12, 2024, the speed limit will be permanently raised to 110 km/h on most of the following provincial highway sections, with the remainder coming into force before the end of the year:

Hwy 401, Tilbury, extending the existing 110 km/h zone further east by 7 km
Hwy 401 from Hwy 35/115 to Cobourg (approximately 35 km)
Hwy 401 from Colborne to Belleville (approximately 44 km)
Hwy 401 from Belleville to Kingston (approximately 66 km)
Hwy 401 from Hwy 16 to Quebec boundary (approximately 107 km)
Hwy 403 from Woodstock to Brantford (approximately 26 km)
Hwy 403 from Brantford to Hamilton (approximately 14.5 km)
Hwy 406 from Thorold to Welland (approximately 13 km)
Hwy 416 from Hwy 401 to Ottawa (approximately 70 km)
Hwy 69 from Sudbury to French River (approximately 60 km)
All highway sections were selected based on their ability to safely accommodate higher speed limits. Alberta, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Saskatchewan have a maximum speed limit of 110 km/h, while in British Columbia, the maximum speed limit is 120 km/h.

Some more 110 limits coming. Still more needed, IMO..

[craner]

Originally Posted by haljackey

Cool drone video of Gordie Howe featuring concrete work

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Pretty amazing project.

[Airboy]

the GHB should be pretty close to joining both side. But I suspect we will see a big gov presence that day.

[urbandreamer]

May the 8th be the official groundbreaking ceremony for Hwy 413, possibly where they've assembled all the earthmoving equipment on Winston Churchill in Caledon.

[sonysnob]

Easterly view on the 407 from Dufferin Street:


http://www.asphaltplanet.ca/ON/hwy_4...ay24_42x28.jpg

[Djeffery]

Originally Posted by urbandreamer

May the 8th be the official groundbreaking ceremony for Hwy 413, possibly where they've assembled all the earthmoving equipment on Winston Churchill in Caledon.

I always wonder how the first guys to work on a new construction project of that type of scale feel the very first day they show up on the job. I'm digging a flower bed 3 feet wide by 15 feet long and feel like it will never end, I can't imagine how insurmountable something major like a freeway feels lol.

[sonysnob]

^they haven't tendered a contract for Hwy 413. While they might have some sort of official ceremony of some kind, construction isn't imminent. I'm not sure they own any of the property for it yet. If they do, certainly not much.

[Innsertnamehere]

No construction yet. Ford announced recently that construction will start next year, but even that will likely only be preliminary work.

The focus this year I believe is property Aquisition.

[sonysnob]

I suspect that even when a contract is called next year it will just before an advanced overpass or something similar. Something akin to what they have done at Yonge Street (Simcoe Road 4) north of Bradford.

[urbandreamer]

I heard MoT is planning some sort of photo op w/ Drug Lord & his Golden Spades, somewhere along the 413 corridor, soon. Maybe Hwy 413 will be named Rob Ford Memorial Highway?