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Originally Posted by Dengler Avenue
The corridor was designated until a year ago when MTO removed the freeway designation…
That said, an MTO engineer did say that the current alignment of Highway 3 would have space for expansion (probably undivided 5 lanes?). The jog around St Thomas would just feel weird.
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I think they’re going to have to re-designate it, or at least come up with a new design that sends it back up to London and not send it the full way to Aylmer. I am getting the impression that this is likely going to be treated as a staged freeway, and the existing alignment of HWY 3 along Centennial and Talbot Line has far too many properties fronting it for it to work that way without a ton of expropriation. The current jog around St Thomas is awkward and crosses the railroad, so I can’t imagine they would want to keep that as the main route for what is shaping up to be a major industrial corridor.
Central Elgin is also rezoning the section south of CN Rail along HWY 3 that they still own as industrial, and I am hearing from some people that I work with who live in the area that they are also planning on rezoning more near the airport to make up for the lands lost by the annexation.
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