Highways in Canada

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Edmonton is currently building its final sections of its ring road.

The project involves 27 kilometres of six- and eight-lane divided roadway, 8 interchanges, 9 flyovers, 2 river structures, and 47 total bridge structures. Using the P3 process, the road will be finished three years earlier than through conventional delivery.

http://www.northeastanthonyhenday.com/project-maps.php

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189 lane kilometers of new roadway
Approximately 9 km of a new six-lane and eight-lane divided freeway between Manning Drive (Highway 15) and Highway 16 (Yellowhead Trail).
Approximately 9 km of reconstructed six-lane and eight-lane divided freeway between Highway 16 (Yellowhead Trail) and Whitemud Drive (east).
Approximately 6 km of reconstructed six-lane and eight-lane divided freeway on Highway 16 (Yellowhead Trail) from east of the North Saskatchewan River to east of Sherwood Drive.
Approximately 3 km of reconstructed six-lane divided freeway on Sherwood Park Freeway between east of Anthony Henday Drive and west of 17 Street NW.
Utilities

Approximately 523 utilities.
Anticipating 292 relocations and protections of the utilities.
Stormwater Management

Will be a significant challenge, requiring detailed stormwater modeling, construction of 24 stormwater ponds with inlet ditching, outfalls and related piping
Structures

Total of 47 bridge structures, comprised of 37 highway bridges, 8 rail bridges and 2 river bridges.
The current plan has 15 bridges with steel girders, 23 bridges with NU girders and 8 bridges using concrete boxes.
Interchanges located at Manning Drive (Highway 15); 153 Avenue; 130 Avenue; Highway 16 (Yellowhead Trail) (systems interchange); Sherwood Park Freeway/Wye Road; Baseline Road; 17 Street NW at Sherwood Park Freeway; Broadmoor Boulevard/17 Street NE at Highway 16; and, Sherwood Drive at Highway 16.
Grade separations located at Canadian National Railway Company (“CNR”) Coronado; Victoria Trail; CNR Vegreville; CNR/CPR north of Highway 16 (Yellowhead Trail); Canadian Pacific Railway Company (“CPR”) south of Highway 16 (Yellowhead Trail); CPR east of Anthony Henday Drive on Highway 16 (Yellowhead Trail); and, Petroleum Way.
There will be twin river bridge structures over the North Saskatchewan River.
The project requires 58 overhead sign bridges and 45 cantilever signs.











photos from: http://www.northeastanthonyhenday.com/project-photos.php

[eternallyme]

I know there has been a lot of debate about transportation policy, but I am wondering: why is the Turcot interchange reconstruction in Montreal like $4 billion? Are there extras being added to it or other costs involved? That is probably higher than the cost to construct the entire 407 around Toronto, which has a whole bunch of impressive interchanges.

[FrAnKs]

Originally Posted by eternallyme

I know there has been a lot of debate about transportation policy, but I am wondering: why is the Turcot interchange reconstruction in Montreal like $4 billion? Are there extras being added to it or other costs involved? That is probably higher than the cost to construct the entire 407 around Toronto, which has a whole bunch of impressive interchanges.

I'm not an expert, but the reconstruction of this interchange is WAY MORE large than the interchange itself.

Thats why it's called the turcot ''complexe'' because there is (if my memories are good) three other interchanges west of the turcot one.
Plus many streets, exit & merges lanes IN and AROUND the complexe.

Edit : here we go : Turcot interchange (the biggest one), Angrignon Interchange, De la vérendrye Interchange and Montréal-ouest interchange.

So it's HUGE, it's like many projects in one, and/or a major facelift for the whole area.

If you can read french :

http://www.turcot.gouv.qc.ca/projet/description/pages/default.aspx

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[sonysnob]

Some new pics of the Autoroute 5 extension north of Ottawa/Gatineau, taken last June:











More and larger:
http://www.asphaltplanet.ca/PQ/A/5/index.html

[MolsonExport]

^nice looking drive.

[haljackey]

Highway 427's rehab is wrapping up.

Some nice development along it too!

Toronto Photo: Hyw 427 + One Valhalla (427 n of Bloor, Etobicoke, Edison, 35 + 30 + 22s, Page + Steele & IBI Group) + West Village (2-6 Eva Rd, Etob, Tridel & Evral, 16 + 27 + 28 + 31s, Rafael & Bigauskas) by drum118, on Flickr

Full size: http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5525/11429814595_1c7b241faa_o.jpg

[TMA-1]

This is a update on Autoroute 5 near Wakefield PQ. My pilot's a Brit and he loves his roundabouts.


_8052527 by southfacing, on Flickr



_8052527 by southfacing, on Flickr

Originally Posted by harls

Autoroute 5 north of Ottawa, extension under construction. The existing route 105 runs parallel to it.


9558 cottagers cut in winter by southfacing, on Flickr


9550 cottagers cut in winter by southfacing, on Flickr

[MolsonExport]

Is there anything greyer than a Toronto Winterscape?

[vid]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

Is there anything greyer than a Toronto Winterscape?

A Thunder Bay Winterscape.


This is a colour photo. I have others with even less colour. You can barely even get colour out of them when you turn the saturation up all the way, it's that bad.

[GernB]

Originally Posted by vid

A Thunder Bay Winterscape.


This is a colour photo. I have others with even less colour. You can barely even get colour out of them when you turn the saturation up all the way, it's that bad.

Ye Gods that's depressing. Almost as bad as here in Deathbridge during/after a storm. It's been a damned hard winter so far - below -20 temps and ridiculous amounts of snow and it's not even January yet - and there's still three months to go. I understand now why people go postal and kill all their co-workers.

[isaidso]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

Is there anything greyer than a Toronto Winterscape?

Most places in the British Isles, but it gets worse the further north you go. Glasgow? Grey, grim, and dilapidated infrastructure.

[Chadillaccc]

Originally Posted by GernB

Ye Gods that's depressing. Almost as bad as here in Deathbridge during/after a storm. It's been a damned hard winter so far - below -20 temps and ridiculous amounts of snow and it's not even January yet - and there's still three months to go. I understand now why people go postal and kill all their co-workers.

Uhmmmmmmm... wuuuuhhhhhhht?

[GernB]

Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

Uhmmmmmmm... wuuuuhhhhhhht?

Just saying that the weather is very depressing. Usually Decmber is not all that cold and not a huge amount of snow, but we've had a lot of both so far.

[vid]

We don't go postal and kill all our coworkers.

We do shrooms and orgy.

[Tone]

Originally Posted by GernB

Ye Gods that's depressing. Almost as bad as here in Deathbridge during/after a storm. It's been a damned hard winter so far - below -20 temps and ridiculous amounts of snow and it's not even January yet - and there's still three months to go. I understand now why people go postal and kill all their co-workers.

Hopefully most people are more grateful towards life than this.

[Beedok]

Ah, the lovely grey of winter. It makes the world look fresh and new. Unlike the horrid smoggy haze and humidity of the summer.

[eemy]

Also, there are no bugs.

[GernB]

Originally Posted by Tone

Hopefully most people are more grateful towards life than this.

It's a joke. Relax.

[Tone]

Originally Posted by GernB

It's a joke. Relax.

My apologies then!

[FrAnKs]

You guys, fan of Roads will enjoy it probably as much as I did !
I'm a little bit jaleous of what that dude is doing with such aweome videos like that ahahah lol... I will need to move my ass off next summer

A-720 through Downtown Montreal - A-15 (Aut. Décarie, Aut. Métropolitaine)

HD is Worth it.... and for the first time, Quebec's roads looks sharp , I can't believe it

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