Highways in Canada

[SaskScraper]

I wonder if there are similar stories of people wanting to go to Vancouver, BC but somehow end up inexplicably in Vancouver, Washington after taking a wrong direction on turn-pike





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While Regina's $2 Billion By-Pass that circles the city is nearing construction completion, Saskatoon's equally ambitious plans for a four-lane, 110-kilometre per hour
$2 Billion Perimeter freeway are being designed.
The Saskatchewan government has finished roughly mapping out the full route for a proposed freeway around Saskatoon. The last two sections of the planned route had yet to be finalized until recently.



http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/full-route-mapped-proposed-saskatoon-freeway-1.4624936

There are currently half a dozen interchanges including two bridges to be opened within this next year on Saskatoon's CMA motorways.

One of the busiest interchanges in Saskatoon is being planned for improvements in the next decade. The current 60 year old four-leaf-clover interchange at Hwy 11 & Hwy 16 is planned for reconstruction as one of Saskatoon's most expensive single interchange projects in city history. Two tunnels underneath the main interchange plus extra on/off ramp lanes are planned for this Quarter Billion dollar interchange.



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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon...skatoon-cloverleaf-interchange-1.4539782

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Originally Posted by Spocket

That seems really odd that people letting them on the plane don't notice their destination doesn't match the flight they're on.

It happens when they book the flight, they enter the wrong airport and buy tickets to the wrong destination.

[isaidso]

Originally Posted by SaskScraper

back to highways...

While Regina's $2 Billion By-Pass that circles the city is nearing construction completion, Saskatoon's equally ambitious plans for a four-lane, 110-kilometre per hour
$2 Billion Perimeter freeway are being designed.
The Saskatchewan government has finished roughly mapping out the full route for a proposed freeway around Saskatoon. The last two sections of the planned route had yet to be finalized until recently.



http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/full-route-mapped-proposed-saskatoon-freeway-1.4624936

There are currently half a dozen interchanges including two bridges to be opened within this next year on Saskatoon's CMA motorways.

Is that Saskatoon ring road far enough out in your opinion? Given that there are less than 400,000 people in the metro that map suggests that it's not that far out and the city will be bisected by highway as soon as it's built. Btw, that you say 'motorway' is a dead giveaway that you're from Britain.

[Spocket]

Originally Posted by SaskScraper

There are currently half a dozen interchanges including two bridges to be opened within this next year on Saskatoon's CMA motorways.

God, sometimes I think Winnipeg and the Manitoba government are the most penny-pinching, backward bunch of schmucks on earth. Saskatchewan can afford billions in highway infrastructure and Manitoba literally took over 20 years just to COMPLETE a single interchange at one of the busiest highway corners in the province.

One question, however: Where are the six interchanges in Saskatoon (area) ? I can only think of 3.

[milomilo]

Originally Posted by SaskScraper

It seems odd that they would design this interchange such that it is not the two legs of the 16 (north and east) that get the full directional flyovers (or tunnels as is the case here). What they have designed splits the TCH into two parts (at least going south to east) rather than have it as one continuous road.

[ghYHZ]

Originally Posted by Spocket

That seems really odd that people letting them on the plane don't notice their destination doesn't match the flight they're on.

In the case of the Sydney travelers....as far as the crew was concerned they were on the right flight and the boarding pass would have scanned just fine!

The passenger selected the wrong ‘Sydney’ when booking.

We’ve got to be responsible for ourselves. When boarding in Halifax the crew of the small Dash-8 Prop shouldn’t have to ask passengers if they really want to be going to Sydney New South Wales……not Sydney Nova Scotia!

[SignalHillHiker]

The Team Gushue extension is coming along.

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[Dengler Avenue]

Another important question: For the speed cameras on Québec autoroutes, at what speed do they start taking pictures?

Once I was driving south on A15 and I saw the camera go off. At that time I was doing either 105 or 115 kph so that had me worrying for quite some time.

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by Dengler Avenue

Another important question: For the speed cameras on Québec autoroutes, at what speed do they start taking pictures?

Once I was driving south on A15 and I saw the camera go off. At that time I was doing either 105 or 115 kph so that had me worrying for quite some time.

I have rarely seen them on autoroutes. I don't believe we have any here in the Outaouais, but there are some on A-50 when you get closer to Montreal (Mirabel).

I generally stick to around 112 kmh around them. This is totally "non-scientific" BTW.

We have lots of them in the city though, and they seem to be set in the lower 60s for 50 kmh zones. I've gone by them at 62-63 kmh and never set them off, but friends have gotten tickets in the mail for going 66 in a 50 zone.

[Laceoflight]

Originally Posted by Dengler Avenue

Another important question: For the speed cameras on Québec autoroutes, at what speed do they start taking pictures?

Once I was driving south on A15 and I saw the camera go off. At that time I was doing either 105 or 115 kph so that had me worrying for quite some time.

Usually, there is a tolerance up to 118-119 km/h when the limit is 100. If the speed limit is under 100 (90, 70, 50...), be sure not to drive at more than 9 km/h over the limit.

[Dengler Avenue]

Originally Posted by Acajack

I have rarely seen them on autoroutes. I don't believe we have any here in the Outaouais, but there are some on A-50 when you get closer to Montreal (Mirabel).

I generally stick to around 112 kmh around them. This is totally "non-scientific" BTW.

We have lots of them in the city though, and they seem to be set in the lower 60s for 50 kmh zones. I've gone by them at 62-63 kmh and never set them off, but friends have gotten tickets in the mail for going 66 in a 50 zone.

Yea there’s a camera on the 2-lane section of A50 west of the airport where there are no barriers. Then there are 2 on A15 in Laval.

Then there’s another one on A20 Ouest west of interchange with A30.

For Québec City, I already forgot where (and on which highway) the camera was.

Perhaps the speed camera on the highway doesn’t go off until 13 kph over? (My friend from Calgary told me the cameras in his city work that way.)

16 kph over on city roads is definitely asking for a ticket regardless though.

[Dengler Avenue]

Originally Posted by Laceoflight

Usually, there is a tolerance up to 118-119 km/h when the limit is 100. If the speed limit is under 100 (90, 70, 50...), be sure not to drive at more than 9 km/h over the limit.

Thanks for the tip.

The annoying thing about speed cameras, though, is that it creates artificial congestion because people will now only go 99 kph in the passing lane.

Ontario used to have it but the then ruling party which brought them in got voted out. (Well, for many other factors too.)

In my opinion, cameras shouldn’t be installed unless the speed limit’s between 120 and 140 kph.

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by Laceoflight

Usually, there is a tolerance up to 118-119 km/h when the limit is 100. If the speed limit is under 100 (90, 70, 50...), be sure not to drive at more than 9 km/h over the limit.

This is definitely true for radar done by police officers in person, but is this true of cameras too?

[Proof Sheet]

Originally Posted by Dengler Avenue

Thanks for the tip.
The annoying thing about speed cameras, though, is that it creates artificial congestion because people will now only go 99 kph in the passing lane.

I got a fine in a rental car in Spain going 111 km/h on a 100 km/h divided highway (2 lanes each way). I was quite surprised the threshold was that low. Six months after I was there I got the fine in the mail with a photo of the car

[Taeolas]

Originally Posted by ghYHZ

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03...prise-arrives-sydney-nova-scotia-rather/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/italian-tourists-end-up-in-wrong-sydney-1.975605

And it doesn’t help either when it’s Sydney NS vs Sydney NSW

It just happened again. (Airplane mixup, not Sydney vs Sydney)

Sounds like it turned out well as it usually does, and it's partly airline and partly his own stupidity that caused it, which he admits.

[Fischbob]

I was flying home earlier this year and in Montreal they were boarding my Saint John flight and another flight bound for St. John's at the same time through the same gate. Talk about a recipe for confusion!

To Air Canada's credit, they had a staff member stationed outside directing people to the right plane, and additionally made an announcement onboard before closing the door, just to be sure nobody was on the wrong flight.

[ssiguy]

Originally Posted by Spocket

God, sometimes I think Winnipeg and the Manitoba government are the most penny-pinching, backward bunch of schmucks on earth. Saskatchewan can afford billions in highway infrastructure and Manitoba literally took over 20 years just to COMPLETE a single interchange at one of the busiest highway corners in the province.

Clearly you have never been to BC. Vancouver`s roads are completely incompetent for a city half it`s size and Victoria is just as bad. Windsor/Essex County which is 300km from Toronto has more 6 lane freeway than ALL of BC.

[Dengler Avenue]

Originally Posted by ssiguy

Clearly you have never been to BC. Vancouver`s roads are completely incompetent for a city half it`s size and Victoria is just as bad. Windsor/Essex County which is 300km from Toronto has more 6 lane freeway than ALL of BC.

To be fair though, like I said a few pages back, Vancouver highways at least have HOV lanes on them.

As for ON 401, except for bus lanes on the shoulder in Cambridge and near Milton (and only EB too), there isn’t any other anywhere else. Not even in Toronto where congestion is at best 20/7. Also did I mention the dangerous spot through Chatham-Kent and Elgin County? Nowadays even the eastern-Ontario segment of 401 can be dangerous.

[JHikka]

Originally Posted by ssiguy

Clearly you have never been to BC. Vancouver`s roads are completely incompetent for a city half it`s size and Victoria is just as bad. Windsor/Essex County which is 300km from Toronto has more 6 lane freeway than ALL of BC.

Surely Windsor and Essex County have a six lane freeway due to their proximity to the Ambassador Bridge/Detroit and not due to their lack of proximity to Toronto.

[Dengler Avenue]

Originally Posted by JHikka

Surely Windsor and Essex County have a six lane freeway due to their proximity to the Ambassador Bridge/Detroit and not due to their lack of proximity to Toronto.

But what about 402 then?