TCH east of Nipigon (La route transcanadienne à l'est de Nipigon) - Page 67

VANRIDERFAN · #**1321** Posted **Dec 31, 2019, 11:53 PM**

Made it to Cochrane (named after a famous admiral!)
One thing about highway 11 is that it is mostly flat and strait. Damn lot of semi's on that route. The section along the Nipigon River is stunning!!!

No pictures though. On my own and in get home mode!!!

wave46 · #**1322** Posted **Jan 1, 2020, 12:34 AM**

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Originally Posted by VANRIDERFAN

Made it to Cochrane (named after a famous admiral!)
One thing about highway 11 is that it is mostly flat and strait. Damn lot of semi's on that route. The section along the Nipigon River is stunning!!!

No pictures though. On my own and in get home mode!!!

The Palisades are fantastic as you wind between them and the Nipigon River.

How many of the 'biggest' things did you end up seeing on your drive?

I recall a giant snowman (in Beardmore?), a moose fighting some wolves (Hearst), a T-Rex in someone's front yard and the Moonbeam flying saucer on my travels up there.

Dengler Avenue · #**1323** Posted **Jan 1, 2020, 12:48 AM**

Have you guys ever seen anyone with a massive beard at beardmore?

Loco101 · #**1324** Posted **Jan 1, 2020, 1:54 AM**

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Originally Posted by VANRIDERFAN

Made it to Cochrane (named after a famous admiral!)
One thing about highway 11 is that it is mostly flat and strait. Damn lot of semi's on that route. The section along the Nipigon River is stunning!!!

No pictures though. On my own and in get home mode!!!

You are close to where I live! But I'm away from home right now.

Hwy 11 has a lot of transport trucks for sure. I'm always afraid of them around the Temagami area with all of the turns and some of them are over the line.

Cochrane was named after Francis Cochrane who was a politician who was a cabinet minister and represented a couple of different ridings in Northeastern Ontario.

vid · #**1325** Posted **Jan 1, 2020, 2:42 AM**

This region was big on naming shit after its own politicians. Almost every street built in Thunder Bay in the 1950s was named after either a city councillor, city planner, or relative of either of the two at the time. Most of the townships around Thunder Bay (Conmee, Gillies, Strange) were named after whoever was the highest authority around at the time they were created.

VANRIDERFAN · #**1326** Posted **Jan 1, 2020, 10:29 AM**

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You are close to where I live! But I'm away from home right now.

Hwy 11 has a lot of transport trucks for sure. I'm always afraid of them around the Temagami area with all of the turns and some of them are over the line.

Cochrane was named after Francis Cochrane who was a politician who was a cabinet minister and represented a couple of different ridings in Northeastern Ontario.

Aww, being named after the "loup de la mer!" would be so much cooler.

Agree on the hugging of the centre line. The worst was when there would be a convoy of 3 or 4 semis with the blowing snow obscuring everything.

Dengler Avenue · #**1327** Posted **Jan 1, 2020, 3:03 PM**

As in trucks shooting snow from their wheels onto your windshield? Dang, just when I thought having rain shot at my windshield on a rainy day from these big guys is bad enough...

wave46 · #**1328** Posted **Jan 1, 2020, 3:37 PM**

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As in trucks shooting snow from their wheels onto your windshield? Dang, just when I thought having rain shot at my windshield on a rainy day from these big guys is bad enough...

I find the slushy mix tends to be the worst - it is thick enough to completely blind one when it splatters on a windshield and is sticky, so it takes a couple of passes with the windshield wipers to clear it.

Snow tends not to really stick - it just blows everywhere when a semi goes by. Which destroys visibility, true, but I'm not frantically trying to hit the wipers full blast as I can still see through the windshield itself.

VANRIDERFAN · #**1329** Posted **Jan 1, 2020, 10:05 PM**

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As in trucks shooting snow from their wheels onto your windshield? Dang, just when I thought having rain shot at my windshield on a rainy day from these big guys is bad enough...

Luckily it was not slush but swirling snow that made it look like a whiteout for a couple of seconds. You just pray that some arsehole isn't trying to pass the semi at that moment.

Dengler Avenue · #**1330** Posted **Jan 7, 2020, 5:54 AM**

https://northernontario.ctvnews.ca/i-los...ren-killed-in-new-year-s-crash-1.4755231

Mother of 3 killed when her car hit the rockcut on the 4-lane section of 17 spoke out...

swimmer_spe · #**1331** Posted **Jan 8, 2020, 4:48 AM**

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https://northernontario.ctvnews.ca/i-los...ren-killed-in-new-year-s-crash-1.4755231

Mother of 3 killed when her car hit the rockcut on the 4-lane section of 17 spoke out...

I live in Chelmsford. I did not know them. I am still trying to figure out how they lost control. The roads weren't that bad. Also, they had 4 children with 2 adults. That car does not seat 6 people. It is horrible what happened, but there are more questions than answers.

Dengler Avenue · #**1332** Posted **Jan 8, 2020, 1:09 PM**

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I live in Chelmsford. I did not know them. I am still trying to figure out how they lost control. The roads weren't that bad. Also, they had 4 children with 2 adults. That car does not seat 6 people. It is horrible what happened, but there are more questions than answers.

Really? The road surface looked slick to me. Also now that I think of it, it was bizarre that OPP closed both directions instead of one.

Now that you mentioned the overcapacity problem, it might be reasonable to conjecture that many didn’t wear seat belts. Otherwise it wouldn’t have caused such casualty.

swimmer_spe · #**1333** Posted **Jan 8, 2020, 2:41 PM**

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Really? The road surface looked slick to me. Also now that I think of it, it was bizarre that OPP closed both directions instead of one.

Now that you mentioned the overcapacity problem, it might be reasonable to conjecture that many didn’t wear seat belts. Otherwise it wouldn’t have caused such casualty.

The roads were not bad. One of the kids was in the ditch, with no vitals. Chances are, they were ejected due to not wearing a seat belt. I think they closed the highway for them to deal with the deaths without rubberneckers.

vid · #**1334** Posted **Jan 9, 2020, 4:06 AM**

If you have a large family but not much money, and you're from a country with pretty lax safety to begin with, overcrowding a car might not seem like as bad a thing to do. Hopefully other new Canadians can learn from this tragedy about the importance of seat belts.

Dengler Avenue · #**1335** Posted **Jan 13, 2020, 1:14 AM**

https://www.tbnewswatch.com/local-news/feds-put-up-37m-to-twin-highway-near-dorion-1667097

I was looking at the 2nd picture. Why was the truck way over the solid centre line...

vid · #**1336** Posted **Jan 13, 2020, 1:22 AM**

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Originally Posted by Dengler Avenue

https://www.tbnewswatch.com/local-news/feds-put-up-37m-to-twin-highway-near-dorion-1667097

I was looking at the 2nd picture. Why was the truck way over the solid centre line...

Probably because a photographer was standing on the shoulder and he wanted to leave space?

Dengler Avenue · #**1337** Posted **Jan 13, 2020, 1:27 AM**

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Probably because a photographer was standing on the shoulder and he wanted to leave space?

Fair enough. I was wondering how likely it would be to capture an instance of traffic infraction.

swimmer_spe · #**1338** Posted **Jan 13, 2020, 1:32 AM**

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Fair enough. I was wondering how likely it would be to capture an instance of traffic infraction.

Crossing the line is not necessarily a traffic infraction. Remember, you must slow down/ pull over for stopped emergency vehicles in Ontario.

Djeffery · #**1339** Posted **Jan 13, 2020, 1:39 AM**

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Crossing the line is not necessarily a traffic infraction. Remember, you must slow down/ pull over for stopped emergency vehicles in Ontario.

And it's just common courtesy, in any vehicle but especially a truck, to move over when anyone is parked on the side, assuming it's safe to do so.

Djeffery · #**1340** Posted **Jan 13, 2020, 1:47 AM**

Speaking of caught on camera, I remember back in the 90's the Kitchener CTV affiliate was out on the 401 between the 6's doing a story about the OPP speed enforcement. The officer was doing that ridiculous (for a highway anyway) procedure of stepping out into traffic and pointing at a car to pull over. So as the camera rolls, the cop steps out, points, a car pulls over, traffic slows and a transport trucks glides by the camera fully jack knifed and plowing into what was still a grass median strip. The OPP was quoted in the story as saying they weren't going to continue that type of enforcement on the 400-series. I don't know if they have discontinued it, but I never see it happen myself anymore.