Highways in Canada - Page 522

Dengler Avenue · #**10421** Posted **Aug 3, 2023, 10:55 AM**

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Originally Posted by Loco101

Something else I remember and shown in the photo are the lines going across the Eastbound lane. I believe they are there as an indicator/reminder of watching your speed when going down the hill and that there is a curve. I don't know of anywhere else where that exists.

In general those exist elsewhere, but yes that’s probably the only one spot on the 17 with that: 6% downhill on the west approach, 3% downgrade on the bridge itself (eastbound), a sharp curve on the east approach*, followed by 7% uphill.
As I’ve said, it’s an engineering marvel.

* (As some of you may already know,) These exist elsewhere on the 17 too, like at the bottom of the hill by Old Woman Bay (5% grade), and the notorious Montreal Harbour curve at the bottom of a 7% grade.

sonysnob · #**10422** Posted **Aug 10, 2023, 12:11 AM**

Photo from July showing the St. Mary's Road overpass under construction on PTH 100 south of Winnipeg. Looking easterly:

http://www.asphaltplanet.ca/MB/100/MB100_dv_DSC02795_24x16.jpg

MonctonRad · #**10423** Posted **Aug 10, 2023, 12:53 AM**

An overpass?? In Manitoba!!!!!

Loco101 · #**10424** Posted **Aug 10, 2023, 1:00 AM**

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Originally Posted by MonctonRad

An overpass?? In Manitoba!!!!!

Welcome into the 20th century Manitoba!

Dengler Avenue · #**10425** Posted **Aug 10, 2023, 8:10 AM**

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Originally Posted by MonctonRad

An overpass?? In Manitoba!!!!!

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Originally Posted by Loco101

Welcome into the 20th century Manitoba!

A modern-looking one too

Nashe · #**10426** Posted **Aug 10, 2023, 10:18 AM**

Every dog in Manitoba:

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VANRIDERFAN · #**10427** Posted **Aug 10, 2023, 12:50 PM**

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Originally Posted by MonctonRad

An overpass?? In Manitoba!!!!!

Sadly your emoji is not required.

thewave46 · #**10428** Posted **Aug 10, 2023, 6:39 PM**

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Originally Posted by sonysnob

Photo from July showing the St. Mary's Road overpass under construction on PTH 100 south of Winnipeg. Looking easterly:

http://www.asphaltplanet.ca/MB/100/MB100_dv_DSC02795_24x16.jpg

Every time Manitoba builds an interchange, an angel gets its wings.

Jokes aside, the improvements to the Perimeter and Highway 1 are probably the best bang-for-buck infrastructure improvements we can get today.

A shame the feds just aren't up for a larger 2020s-style Trans-Canada improvement program for the Prairies. I'd even settle just for a few dozen interchanges along the route as a start.

craner · #**10429** Posted **Aug 11, 2023, 12:35 AM**

At least they appear to be leaving a large ROW for future expansion to the east & west roadways.

AuxTown · #**10430** Posted **Aug 11, 2023, 1:50 PM**

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Originally Posted by craner

At least they appear to be leaving a large ROW for future expansion to the east & west roadways.

I love the size of roads and interchanges out west. Looks like you could put 8 lanes in each direction under that thing!

sonysnob · #**10431** Posted **Aug 12, 2023, 3:56 PM**

Night view of the 401 looking easterly towards the 412 interchange east of Toronto. 2021 photo:

https://www.asphaltplanet.ca/ON/hwy_401_images/401_cl_406_East_night_Aug21_42-28.jpg

haljackey · #**10432** Posted **Aug 14, 2023, 1:24 PM**

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Originally Posted by sonysnob

Night view of the 401 looking easterly towards the 412 interchange east of Toronto. 2021 photo:

With the tolls removed on the 412 and 418, it is annoying (but still better than nothing) that these routes do not go north of the 407.

Traveling to Port Perry last week, I had to exit at Highway 7 and travel through Brooklyn to get to Highway 12. I could have taken the 412 to the 407 and then take that to the 12, but that would involve a entrance fee, camera charge, and toll to access just one interchange on the road. Not really worth it IMO.

Also the 401 should really be 4 or 5 lanes each way west of the 412. Now that it's toll free a lot of traffic is dumped on 3 lanes before widening to 5 a couple km to the west. That should really be extended ASAP and have been included in the original 401/412 interchange project.

(Great photo BTW)

Innsertnamehere · #**10433** Posted **Aug 14, 2023, 2:29 PM**

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Originally Posted by haljackey

With the tolls removed on the 412 and 418, it is annoying (but still better than nothing) that these routes do not go north of the 407.

Traveling to Port Perry last week, I had to exit at Highway 7 and travel through Brooklyn to get to Highway 12. I could have taken the 412 to the 407 and then take that to the 12, but that would involve a entrance fee, camera charge, and toll to access just one interchange on the road. Not really worth it IMO.

Also the 401 should really be 4 or 5 lanes each way west of the 412. Now that it's toll free a lot of traffic is dumped on 3 lanes before widening to 5 a couple km to the west. That should really be extended ASAP and have been included in the original 401/412 interchange project.

(Great photo BTW)

Whitby is working on a Brooklyn bypass route, but it will be a municipal road and will connect to Lakeridge, not the 412.

https://connectwhitby.ca/highway-712-EA

MTO should be looking at building a Highway 12 bypass connecting from the Highway 7 off ramps from the 412, IMO. It doesn't need to be a 400-series extension, and could probably even just be a 2-lane rural MTO highway.

I would see it starting with 2 roundabouts on Highway 7 at the off ramps, run north from the 412-off ramp roundabout, use the Coronation Road overpass over the 407, then run northeast through fields to connect to 12 around Myrtle. Probably wouldn't be wildly expensive and would fix the transportation issues in the area.

Dengler Avenue · #**10434** Posted **Aug 14, 2023, 2:48 PM**

Yea it was a bummer that 412 northward extension wasn’t considered when 407 East was built. Retrofitting that interchange would be messy though probably still doable, definitely easier than trying to extend 416 across Lac Deschênes to Aylmer onto the A-550 corridor.

swimmer_spe · #**10435** Posted **Aug 14, 2023, 3:10 PM**

412 extension should be planned to connect to Highway 11.

Dengler Avenue · #**10436** Posted **Aug 14, 2023, 11:56 PM**

https://goo.gl/maps/o4KJ2rivDgqSapn47
What is this???

All these years, I thought it was a diamond interchange until I looked more closely today.

sonysnob · #**10437** Posted **Aug 15, 2023, 9:49 PM**

Signage for the Perimeter Highway along the southbound side of MB-59:

http://www.asphaltplanet.ca/MB/59/MB59_dv_DSC02850_24x16.jpg

harls · #**10438** Posted **Aug 15, 2023, 11:40 PM**

^ I am guessing we can expect a MB video from you soon?

sonysnob · #**10439** Posted **Aug 16, 2023, 2:30 AM**

^ Stranger things have happened than that.

Dengler Avenue · #**10440** Posted **Aug 16, 2023, 11:45 AM**

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Originally Posted by harls

^ I am guessing we can expect a MB video from you soon?

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Originally Posted by sonysnob

^ Stranger things have happened than that.

Indeed, I knew you (@sonysnob) were at Whiteshell (Hawk Lake), but I didn’t know you went that far~

Ps: Someone once asked, “Is Whiteshell pronounced like ‘white-shell’ or ‘whites-hell’?”