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Originally Posted by wave46
I'm surprised they chose the QEW between Saint Catharines and Hamilton for part of the pilot. It's a fairly busy stretch - most places tend to keep lower limits in place for high-volume highways.
The 417 to Montreal and 402 to Sarnia I get - they're pretty rural stretches.
I would have added the 400 north of Barrie, the 416 and the 401 east of Kingston as candidates too.
I have no idea how zealous the police will be about enforcing this - generally places with higher speed limits tend of frown more seriously on speeding (like in Europe), whereas places with artificially low limits (defined as less than the speed of median traffic) tend to be more lenient.
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From an experimental point of view, it makes sense. Pick a lightly travelled one, then a medium-volume one, then a high-volume one, and see where the 110 km/h speed limit is truly appropriate.
My prediction is that it will only work well on 417 between OTT and MTL, then that MTO will raise the speed limit on 416.
IMO the speed limit on 401 should never be above 100 km/h because it’s busy through and through. Even the section from Highway 416 to Quebec sees a high amount of truck traffic. But it’s a different story if MTO’s okay with trucks going 110 km/h outside of Northern Ontario.
As for 400, as I mentioned in swimmer_spe’s thread, 110 km/h isn’t appropriate unless and until MTO constructs EDR between Exits 162 and 177. The newly twinned section of 69 also seems to lack EDR between Estaire and Alban.