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Originally Posted by swimmer_spe
Before the extension, Highway 407 ended with no freeway link to the 401. Building this extension makes sense. Even if this is the furthest it goes, it gets people back on to the 401 without going through slow areas.
Extending the 417 is needed, but, really, the GTA has some serious congestion.
The 407 is supposed to stay in Ontario government hands.
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I suppose they wanted to address some local traffic issues with the 412 and 418 (killing three birds with one stone) but I find it odd that the link-up from the 401 to the 407 wasn't just done with an east-west route (407 extension) that would have run naturally northwestwards from a new 401-407 junction in the vicinity of Bowmanville-Clarington.
Instead of two totally perpendicular routes that make you go north-south when your journey is actually east-west.
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