Highways in Canada

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Originally Posted by Dwils01

I think the biggest priority is to widen hwy 17 between Sudbury and North Bay. There is not a lot of passing lanes and traffic is always so heavy there.
It would be nice also to have the Sudbury by-pass become a divided hwy instead of just sections of it because sometimes you're stuck behind a vehicle going only 80km/h and you can't pass it.

All of Highway 17 between Sudbury and Arnprior needs to be twinned. Traffic is always very heavy because it's the only road on the North End of Algonquin Park, so everyone is inevitably funneled onto it. I would agree that the Sudbury bypass should be upgraded first though, it would be immensely beneficial for the city to have both a freeway connection and a true half-ring road.

Originally Posted by toaster

Surely a city of that size in any other province isn't that far away from a proper freeway.

For McMurray in Alberta has about 60,000 people and as far as I can tell, there is no proper freeway connection. You also forget that Thunder Bay, with about 120,000 people, is in an even more outrageous situation since it's more than 12 hours away from another Ontario freeway. Only 6 hours to Manitoba, though.