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Originally Posted by jeremy_haak
So another major accident has closed a major highway in Ontario for an extended period.
While the southbound direction now has one lane open, they don't expect he northbound direction will be open until around 10pm.
This section of highway has an AADT of 94,500 as of 2010. While we can't know if a tall-wall barrier would have prevented the cube van from being pushed into the on-coming lanes, the guardrail that was there was certainly not up to the task. It's frankly astonishing that such a busy section of highway is not built to better standards.
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Another example of why relying so heavily on roads to get people around in our climate is so stupid. If we had fast and frequent rail service between cities of southern Ontario these huge pileups would be less frequent and disruptive. The GO line to Barrie is a start but it still has very limited and slow service.
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Originally Posted by Innsertnamehere
yup, now if they can get rid of the canal road at grade intersection.
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It's not really an at grade intersection - you can only go one direction and you don't cross any highway lanes. It's definitely substandard though.
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