Highways in Canada

[GreaterMontréal]

Will it remain that way as the Turcot interchange is being rebuilt?

No,
http://www.turcot.gouv.qc.ca/projet/Documents/2016-02-24_Turcot.pdf

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Do trains travel full speed on that stretch? Looks like a disaster waiting to happen.

good question, but I know that oil trains can't go faster than 56kmh, in the CMAs across Canada.

futur Turcot interchange, project presentation. in french ,
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[MalcolmTucker]

That potash unit train is so dangerous. Really, the city should move the highway and let the railway be - it was there first (probably).

[begratto]

Originally Posted by Acajack

Carriageway on the left!

In Canada!

I was on my way to Ottawa with a few friends, including one who had recently immigrated from Romania, I told her that the carriageways switched sides because we were getting closer to the English-speaking areas, where people drive on the left, just as in the UK.

She seemed skeptical at first, but when she noticed that we were, indeed, driving on the left, she didn't have a choice but to believe me.

The joke lasted the time it took for us to cover this particularly stretch of the highway, i.e. 8-10 minutes (we were stuck in a traffic jam), when everyone erupted in laughter and our friend realized it was all a joke.

[Innsertnamehere]

how long until that highway gets moved to the "correct" side? Every time I've driven through montreal I've taken A-15, Gotta make sure I drive on it once before its ripped up.

[GreaterMontréal]

Originally Posted by Innsertnamehere

how long until that highway gets moved to the "correct" side? Every time I've driven through montreal I've taken A-15, Gotta make sure I drive on it once before its ripped up.

hurry up.

[Airboy]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/inuvik-tuktoyaktuk-highway-1.3526669.

Another year and we will be able to drive to the North Coast. May be next years road trip.

[MolsonExport]

Originally Posted by GreaterMontréal

Rear DPU by Michael Berry, sur Flickr

wicked photo. I drove that highway for damned near 30 years.

[Loco101]

I always thought those lamp posts were unique.

[sonysnob]

It's too bad it aged so poorly, it's such a neat interchange otherwise. Drive into Montreal when it was new at the end of the '60s must have been really impressive.

[FrAnKs]

Originally Posted by sonysnob

It's too bad it aged so poorly, it's such a neat interchange otherwise. Drive into Montreal when it was new at the end of the '60s must have been really impressive.

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[MolsonExport]

Originally Posted by FrAnKs

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what a great find. Thanks for that!

[LeftCoaster]

The video seems to have cut out the scene where the mobsters add woodchips to the concrete

[le calmar]

The last time I went to Montreal, about a month ago, it struck me how the Turcot interchange looked awful. I mean, it looked awful for a long time now... But it appeared to look even worse, as its deterioration had now entered an exponential phase. They really need to tear down that thing before something bad happen.

[GreaterMontréal]

Turcot looked good till the end of the 90's.

[MolsonExport]

The original Turcot interchange (still the granddaddy of spaghetti junctions in Canada) had lights embedded in the roadsides (that is, the short concrete walls abutting the traffic lanes), rather than the usual overhead light standards. It looked extremely futuristic. Too bad nobody thought of all the snow (and salt), which caused the lights to short out, and the whole system, eventually replaced.

[Kokkei Mizu]

Northeast Anthony Henday Drive project in Edmonton:

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[RueBulmer]

Originally Posted by sonysnob

It's too bad it aged so poorly, it's such a neat interchange otherwise. Drive into Montreal when it was new at the end of the '60s must have been really impressive.

It was, and the Bonaventure Expressway, with its impractical lighting built into the concrete guard rails to the Champlain bridge was tres cool.

But I was disappointed when I found out the Decarie expressway would be just a bigger, longer, version of the whiskey trench. We expected it to be completely underground.

[sonysnob]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

The original Turcot interchange (still the granddaddy of spaghetti junctions in Canada) had lights embedded in the roadsides (that is, the short concrete walls abutting the traffic lanes), rather than the usual overhead light standards. It looked extremely futuristic. Too bad nobody thought of all the snow (and salt), which caused the lights to short out, and the whole system, eventually replaced.

The Gardiner in Toronto had a similar system back in the day. You can see a short segment of it on the westbound off-ramp to Jarvis Street.

https://www.google.com/maps/@43.6470028,...2QXF3Tajg0yQw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by GreaterMontréal

Turcot looked good till the end of the 90's.

It's been a while since most of these infrastructures looked "good" in the Montreal area, but in fairness regarding Turcot, they stopped doing any type of aesthetic maintenance on it several years ago when it was decided that it would be torn down and replaced.

[GreaterMontréal]

Originally Posted by Acajack

It's been a while since most of these infrastructures looked "good" in the Montreal area, but in fairness regarding Turcot, they stopped doing any type of aesthetic maintenance on it several years ago when it was decided that it would be torn down and replaced.

ce que j'aime, c'est que l'image que Montréal a, de ses mauvaises infrastructures et toute l'image négative de la ville, va changer. Les 2 plus grosses infrastructures qui donnaient une mauvaise réputation vont être remplacées. Un Champlain et un Turcot tout neuf, ça va ramener la fierté et tous les commentaires négatifs vont disparaître. Les gens seront bouche bée.