Ontario Highways

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Originally Posted by sonysnob

The lack of a median barrier could have been addressed with a cable median barrier for much less cost.

I think the installation of the cable median could have been delivered at less than 20% of the cost than fully widening the highway to six lanes.

So, assuming a real MTO estimate of about $1 billion dollars to widen the entire highway, they could have achieved almost as safe a highway for $200 million dollars.

That would have left $800 million in funding available to improve other highways. The question then becomes, how many lives could be saved by investing $800 million on another highway corridor vs. the marginal safety improvement by investing an additional $800 million dollars on a marginal safety improvement vs. the cable median barrier.

There is a reasons there are no other barriers besides the Jersey or Ontario Tall Wall being used.