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Originally Posted by VANRIDERFAN
The Province and the city of Regina allowed development on the TCH starting at Balgonie about 30 years ago. It just got worse and worse. In hindsight they should have built a proper interchange at TCH and Victoria (east side of the city) and a couple more overpasses at key points to the east. Maintain service roads all along the route and that would have solved needing to build a whole new highway.
Oh well, it is what it is.
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They should have just made a simple bypass south with the TCH, and then have a highway that does an upside down U around the city.
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Originally Posted by Loco101
Oh I drove that a couple of times this Summer. I totally understand what you mean!!
I'm not a fan of Saskatchewan highway designs. So many flaws and obvious places where the province didn't want to invest in safety. I can provide Google Streetview links to show. I also can't believe how many very busy at grade intersections there are along Hwy 1 (Trans-Canada).
I witnessed a horrible accident in Whitewood along Hwy 1 at an at-grade intersection with Hwy 9 and couldn't believe how badly the first responders handled it compared to anything I've ever seen in Ontario. And the fact that there have been a number of deadly accidents at that intersection yet nothing has been done. I do realize that Saskatchewan isn't as well off as Ontario but there are some inexpensive interim measures that could be taken.
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You mean, you don't like a divided 4 lane highway? Between The BC and ON border, we were driving on 4 lane highways. this means being able to pass slower drivers safer than on the 2 lanes.
I think if we build 11/17 in Northern ON like that - at grade for all but the busiest intersections, we might be able to do more and get more done.
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Originally Posted by VANRIDERFAN
Not only SK but MB has TCH/16 junction that has been the sight of numerous deadly crashes. Alberta has several dangerous ones as well. Of course there are the awful sections throughout the BC sections of the TCH.
Maybe if we (Canada) had a national highway authority...............
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It seems BC sets their speed limits right. It is not a limit due to some nanny state, but a limit that if you go over it, you die. 120 km/hr on a mountain freeway and 100km/hr on a 2 lane mountain highway is about as fast as one would want to go.
If Ontario did that, 100km/hr in the GTA makes sense as you cannot go faster than that. BC even has changeable signs. That should exist on all major highways.
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Originally Posted by wave46
This actually brings up an interesting tangent: half-assed highways.
I can think of a couple of them. Where highway designers just said 'this is fine' and now they're complete messes, because nobody had the foresight to plan for future growth and just let them become part of city streets. We've discussed Regina and Saskatoon, but I've driven Ile Perrot on the west side of Montreal.
You're on a high-speed divided highway going 100 km/h and suddenly you're on a 50km/h main drag through town. I always wondered why the MTQ never just routed the 20 via the 40/30 west of Baie-D'Urfe and let the section of the 20 become a dedicated city street.
Or the bonkers routing of the 40 through downtown Trois Rivieres when it looks as if there's a nice corridor north of the city.
Throw in your candidates.
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102 in Halfax. It is signed all the way downtown...
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Originally Posted by wave46
Ontario Highway 11 between Barrie and Gravenhurst comes to mind too. It's always an interesting question if that person looking to get on the highway is actually going to pull out in front of you from the Tim's/gas station/RV dealership into the flow of semi-dense traffic.
You wonder how good your brakes are and how good the reaction time of the transport driver behind you is going to be.
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That is the test of how close you are behind the other driver. Besides, when you're crawling at a snails pace, what does it matter?
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Originally Posted by Acajack
What about the missing link between Highway 417 in Ottawa and A-5 in Gatineau which requires heavy truck traffic between the two cities to weave through a maze of tight turns on narrow, busy inner city streets? Including Rideau, one of the capital's main streets.
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I have always thought they should just tunnel under the city to make the connection. It's only about 2km between the bridge and 417. Enough for an exit or so.