London Roads - Page 60

Djeffery · #**1181** Posted **May 11, 2019, 12:20 AM**

Curbs have now finally been poured on the stretch of Wilton Grove west of Highbury that has been closed for 7 months. Hopefully this piece will be open by the end of the month. And hopefully whatever issues plagued this rebuild aren't a problem for the stretch to the east of Highbury to Commerce Rd and it gets back open this summer.

Djeffery · #**1182** Posted **Jun 14, 2019, 12:09 AM**

Crews have been paving Wilton Grove west of Highbury this week, hopefully ready for traffic soon.

Also, Colonel Talbot is getting a major reconstruction this year north of Lambeth due to sewer work. The diversion lanes have been added on the west side of the road between Diane Cr and Pack Rd. I assume next week they will close off the main road and move traffic over there. The roadwork will eventually extend all the way up to Four Winds Cr where work ended last year. It sure would be nice if they left that road bed there after the sewer work was done and widened the road. Since the intent is to convert the Col Tal and Southdale intersection to a roundabout, wouldn't it make sense to do that in conjunction with this major sewer work?

jammer139 · #**1183** Posted **Jun 14, 2019, 11:00 PM**

Of course they won't do the smart thing. They won't know the smart thing if it bit them on the backside.

There are so many examples of horrible designs and choices made by our traffic and road dept.

Latest pet peeve is Riverside and Beaverbrook. Why this intersection does not have an all way stop or set of lights is utterly beyond mortal understanding.

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Originally Posted by Djeffery

Crews have been paving Wilton Grove west of Highbury this week, hopefully ready for traffic soon.

Also, Colonel Talbot is getting a major reconstruction this year north of Lambeth due to sewer work. The diversion lanes have been added on the west side of the road between Diane Cr and Pack Rd. I assume next week they will close off the main road and move traffic over there. The roadwork will eventually extend all the way up to Four Winds Cr where work ended last year. It sure would be nice if they left that road bed there after the sewer work was done and widened the road. Since the intent is to convert the Col Tal and Southdale intersection to a roundabout, wouldn't it make sense to do that in conjunction with this major sewer work?

Spoofy · #**1184** Posted **Jun 17, 2019, 1:23 PM**

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Originally Posted by jammer139

Of course they won't do the smart thing. They won't know the smart thing if it bit them on the backside.

There are so many examples of horrible designs and choices made by our traffic and road dept.

Latest pet peeve is Riverside and Beaverbrook. Why this intersection does not have an all way stop or set of lights is utterly beyond mortal understanding.

Funny enough, if you look at the report that went to council just a few weeks ago about New Traffic Light Installations for 2019, one of them is Riverside and Beaverbrook!

Djeffery · #**1185** Posted **Jul 5, 2019, 11:28 PM**

Wilton Grove Rd is now open east and west of Highbury. Earlier this week, the stretch from Veterans to 74 was closed and will remain so until the end of September (which might mean September, or it might mean next May lol).

tyeman200 · #**1186** Posted **Jul 14, 2019, 12:58 AM**

They're finally repaving Newbold and some other roads in the south industrial district. They were putting in new gas pipes before, and now they have torn down the roads and putting in some new curbs. I'm so thankful, those roads were really crap and had potholes everywhere, it'll be nice to have a smooth drive to work.

jammer139 · #**1187** Posted **Jul 20, 2019, 12:44 AM**

Traffic volumes on this stretch of Wonderland rd dramatically increased after the 401 interchange link was built. Another major gap in the road network that was finally fixed.

https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/wonderland-road-between-highways-to-close-nightly-for-repairs

go_leafs_go02 · #**1188** Posted **Jul 20, 2019, 1:41 PM**

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Traffic volumes on this stretch of Wonderland rd dramatically increased after the 401 interchange link was built. Another major gap in the road network that was finally fixed.

https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/wonderland-road-between-highways-to-close-nightly-for-repairs

I'm guessing they're simply putting the final layer of asphalt down as that still needs to be done to complete the corridor.

haljackey · #**1189** Posted **Jul 20, 2019, 3:07 PM**

I've noticed a long queue that's been forming on Wonderland NB at Exeter. The lights at both Exeter and Wharncliffe don't seem to be green for a long enough time to get most traffic through both intersections. As a result, traffic backs up quite a ways south of Exeter.

Plans call to 4-lane Wonderland to just north of the 402 (the 402 overpass isn't wide enough for 4 lanes), but this won't do squat until the light timings at these intersections is improved.

It might help to get 6 lanes on Wonderland from just south of Exeter to Southdale, but the current 6 lane plan calls for Southdale to be the southern terminus of the project.

Things will only get busier as more development on Wonderland is completed, including the new casino.

Dengler Avenue · #**1190** Posted **Jul 20, 2019, 3:29 PM**

What about roundabouts in lieu of lights?

Djeffery · #**1191** Posted **Jul 20, 2019, 4:15 PM**

I've noticed the long queues as well there, but I think it was more construction related the last couple summers. Now that the final paving is done, I've noticed things have drastically improved the last week or so. I even managed to get to Exeter and make a left in one light the other day at 5pm lol.

Djeffery · #**1192** Posted **Jul 20, 2019, 4:27 PM**

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What about roundabouts in lieu of lights?

I would imagine that would make it infinitely worse at the busy times of the day. Exeter and Wharncliffe are pretty close together and busy streets on their own that I can't imagine how bad Wonderland would back up with people trying to get through 2 roundabouts a couple hundred feet apart.

haljackey · #**1193** Posted **Jul 20, 2019, 6:18 PM**

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Originally Posted by Djeffery

I would imagine that would make it infinitely worse at the busy times of the day. Exeter and Wharncliffe are pretty close together and busy streets on their own that I can't imagine how bad Wonderland would back up with people trying to get through 2 roundabouts a couple hundred feet apart.

There was talk a while back to make the entire Exeter-Wonderland-Wharncliffe triangle a large one-way traffic circle / roundabout. Would have looked something like this:

Dengler Avenue · #**1194** Posted **Jul 20, 2019, 6:38 PM**

I was gonna suggest that too, a 3-lane giant roundabout. Way to copy London, UK.

I don’t know if the property owners in the middle sit well with that proposal though.

Djeffery · #**1195** Posted **Jul 20, 2019, 10:32 PM**

That would actually work well I think. It reminds me of the rotaries in Moncton and Halifax I'm used to from when I was a kid. You actually took a trip around those things lol. The one at Main and Wheeler in Moncton is over 500 feet across and has 2 railway overpasses on it. This one would be larger than that, but given the size, it also wouldn't need to be a perfect circle either. And I don't see why the businesses in the center couldn't stay there, with more retail space added.. There's plenty of empty land around that corner right now that the design could be worked out to keep as many of the existing buildings there as possible.

tyeman200 · #**1196** Posted **Jul 22, 2019, 1:44 AM**

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I would imagine that would make it infinitely worse at the busy times of the day. Exeter and Wharncliffe are pretty close together and busy streets on their own that I can't imagine how bad Wonderland would back up with people trying to get through 2 roundabouts a couple hundred feet apart.

Why not just build an overpass for wonderland over both roads, and have off ramps instead?

Djeffery · #**1197** Posted **Jul 22, 2019, 10:46 AM**

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Why not just build an overpass for wonderland over both roads, and have off ramps instead?

For the same reason we don't just simply make every road 5 lanes every time they have to fix some potholes, like someone else keeps saying. Because we don't have a bottomless pit of money.

Djeffery · #**1198** Posted **Sep 25, 2019, 9:57 PM**

Richmond is open again through the York St intersection. York is now open to the west of Richmond and closed between Richmond and Clarence.

BIGGUY2891 · #**1199** Posted **Sep 26, 2019, 4:19 AM**

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Richmond is open again through the York St intersection. York is now open to the west of Richmond and closed between Richmond and Clarence.

I'm glad it's open again. And I'm going to be annoyed when that north-south artery shuts down again in the spring.

https://www.london.ca/residents/Roads-Tr...ure-road-projects/Pages/RichmondIRP.aspx

jammer139 · #**1200** Posted **Sep 26, 2019, 4:52 PM**

Sunningdale Rd is getting concrete median curbs poured today in front of Tricars NorthLink project.

Knowing Sunningdale is under an EA and needs to be widened to 5 lanes why waste money only to have it removed in a few years when it's rebuilt? They could fast track the portion from NorthLink to Richmond now and build it 5 lanes wide once. When the golf holes on south side get turned into a new subdivision complete the stretch as 5 lanes to the roundabout. At least the portion of Sunningdale would be completed.