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Originally Posted by haljackey
We're in year 2 of 5 for construction work around the Highbury avenue interchange. I'm still cheezed that after all this time and effort, traffic lights will remain on the freeway stretch of Highbury. This was the time to make it right, even if it meant making the 5 year project take 6 or more years.
401 gets beat up a lot more than your typical freeway due to the high % of heavy trucks using it. That means the road wears a lot faster, so more upkeep/construction is needed. Some parts are also approaching the end of their design life (1950s/60s over/underpasses) and thus there is more construction activity now to replace them. Obviously traffic volumes are also growing, so that means widening projects add further, lengthy construction times.
We've beat the dead horse many times about this. 401 is a single point of failure. Another freeway running north of London and K/W towards Toronto would distribute the use and give you an alternate when there's a lot of construction. So would more trains and transit choices... but here we are in 2024 with just the 401 still.
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Can it be that MTO doesn’t want to add the flyover ramps between 401 and Highbury Avenue until 401 gets 8 lanes through London (just like the 8E to 401W and 401E to 8W connections)?
I suspect that, when the cloverleaf interchange was redesigned as an A4 parclo, MTO had thought about keeping the free-flow (just like 401E to Yonge Street North). That said, the design might still be there even though it wasn’t used.
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