Highways in Canada

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Originally Posted by Innsertnamehere

MTO has plans to upgrade highway 11, but it likely won't be renamed 411 for a long time, they will probably want to eliminate every grade crossing to North Bay to do that. The RIRO is also planned to be upgraded as the highway needs to be widened to 6 lanes, which while that will be relatively soon for the part south of orillia, it's a whiles off for north of it.

MTO looked at a Barrie Bypass, but determined it was better to widen the 400. The plan is to have it set up as an 4+HOV ultimately, with a possible further widening through Barrie, which MTO is currently studying. They may even try to squeeze in a collector express system.

As for space, you would be amazed what you can squeeze through old highway stretches. MTO is planning to squeeze through extra lanes through Oshawa on the 401 and Mississauga on the QEW, both of which "have no space" today.

I did not know the MTO had already looked at it. Any link to the study?

The Oshawa section of the 401 is actually a great point. How many lanes in total are they planning through lanes?