Highways in Canada

[eternallyme]

Originally Posted by ssiguy

I've always thought one of Ontario's top priorities should be to extend the 402 from Strathroy across northern London to the 403 at Woodstock which is where is was suppose to go in the first place until Labbat's greased some palms at Queen's Park and made it swing south to the 401 at wellington road in the southern edge of the city.

The 401 from London to Woodstock carries a whopping 70,000 vehicles a day with monsterous amounts of transport traffic and it is going to have to be widened and that is going to be a nightmare. It is also near useless to people in Northern London {whuich is the fastest growing part of the city} as London has no freeways and in rush hour it can easily take 45 minutes just to get to the 401.

The 402 has become a very busy roadway with traffic volumes at 80% of the 401's level between London and Windsor with huge transport traffic most of which is heading towards Toronto or Hamilton/Niagara.

In BC, one hardly knows where to start on the upgrades needed. It just finished the HWY/port Mann and South Fraser Perimeter Road which, out of Canada's 6 largest cities, takes it from the worst highway sytem in the country to the worse highway system in the country, just slightly less so. The Island highway desperately needs freeway standards all the way from Victoria to Comox but only a small portion is and it's not even 4 lanes coming into Victoria.

BC needs a whole slew of interchanges in greater Vancouver for it's slow roads and must be 8 lanes to Abbotsford and at least 6 to Chilliwack. the Okanagan Connector still doesn't directly connect with the Coquihalla and requires a huge out of the way route thru merit and due to the very long and steep mountain near Merrit it adds 25 minutes to the trip by car and 45 minutes for the transports that crawl up the mountain.

You can blame the tree huggers for the backlogs on Vancouver Island, they want nothing to do with any highways.