Highways in Canada

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Originally Posted by Treplow

Montreal is really the only major Canadian city that has an American style freeway network, and even that has some coverage gaps (i.e. the surface section of the A20 through Vaudreuil).

No Canadian city really has a freeway system that compares favourably with an American city of similar size, especially if we’re talking about an American city in the sunbelt.

American urban interstates are much more sophisticated. They have things like HOV lanes, full shoulders, tall wall crash barriers, decent acceleration lanes, stack interchanges rather than archaic cloverleafs, and usually a minimum of 3 lanes per direction - often 4, 5 or 6. They also have better road surfaces, even in places with similar climates, and more sophisticated interchanges with surface roads.

MTO and the new Alberta urban freeways are built to American standards but Lack the network size, while Quebec and the Maritimes go for the “quantity over quality” approach. BC and MB have neither.