Highways in Canada

[SteelTown]

Part of Burlington Street is now renamed Nikola Tesla Boulevard, today was the unveiling.




http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/news/tesla-boulevard-1.3672737

Originally Posted by thomax

Nikola Tesla Boulevard Sign by teslaeducational, on Facebook


Nikola Tesla Boulevard Sign by teslaeducational, on Facebook


Nikola Tesla Boulevard Sign by teslaeducational, on Facebook


Nikola Tesla Blvd on Google Maps by teslaeducational, on Facebook

[kwoldtimer]

Why?

[SteelTown]

It's a fitting tribute because Hamilton was the first major Canadian city to have alternating current (AC) electrical power, a Tesla invention, said Bob Bratina, Liberal MP for Hamilton East-Stoney Creek, whose family is Serbian and Croatian. And Tesla himself consulted on the Hamilton project, Bratina said.

Tesla helped build Decew Falls 1 in 1898, and the station remains the oldest hydro-generating station in Canada; the current generated flowed to Hamilton's Cataract Power Company. It was one of the longest electrical lines in the world at the time, Bratina said.

An Aug. 26, 1898 article in the Hamilton Spectator backs up the project's importance.

"Yesterday was an important day for the directors of the Cataract Power Company," it reads. "It marked the near completion of the company's plans for supplying city business men with power for their works and factories."

Hamilton's cheap electricity caused its manufacturing boom, which is instrumental to the city today, Bratina said. That's why it's fitting that the street is named after him.

"And he was here," he said.

[SignalHillHiker]

"And he was here" is a fantastic line. He could've let that stand on its own as the only explanation needed, and delivered it with a shrug.

[SteelTown]

And the first car on the Telsa Boulevard was naturally a Telsa

[Kokkei Mizu]

Highway 63 two months after the fire:

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[TorontoDrew]

Originally Posted by SteelTown

It's a fitting tribute because Hamilton was the first major Canadian city to have alternating current (AC) electrical power, a Tesla invention, said Bob Bratina, Liberal MP for Hamilton East-Stoney Creek, whose family is Serbian and Croatian. And Tesla himself consulted on the Hamilton project, Bratina said.

Tesla helped build Decew Falls 1 in 1898, and the station remains the oldest hydro-generating station in Canada; the current generated flowed to Hamilton's Cataract Power Company. It was one of the longest electrical lines in the world at the time, Bratina said.

"And he was here," he said.

Unless this stretch of road travels the full 34km to St Catherines where the power plant is located it seems rather silly to me to name the road after him. In fact naming a road after a man who helped invent clean power is rather ironic. Hamilton should have named one of it's new "electric" streetcars lines after Tesla instead.

[MolsonExport]

Originally Posted by softee

A Golden Horseshoe adventure I found on youtube.

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harsh. reminds me why I hate driving in the GTA.

[haljackey]

My first road video in over a year. showcasing the Highway 401 extension in Windsor.

Put annotations on for info

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(My other road vids: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3Yl0lRNSH1hES4_9Dp7gP9YwFkFqclxU)

[nephersir7]

Demolition of the Saint-Jacques Bridge as part of the Turcot Interchange reconstruction

[GreaterMontréal]

the future Turcot interchange. Monstrueux


from Mtlurb

[Kokkei Mizu]

That future Turcot Interchange looks just as insane as it does now. Who thought it would be a good idea to put a major interchange between two large freeways directly on top of a railway ROW?

[GreaterMontréal]

Originally Posted by Kokkei Mizu

That future Turcot Interchange looks just as insane as it does now. Who thought it would be a good idea to put a major interchange between two large freeways directly on top of a railway ROW?

go to 1:36min, the downtown core appears from nowhere , great view , Route 136, 6 lanes wide at some point
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[manny_santos]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

harsh. reminds me why I hate driving in the GTA.

I don't mind driving in North York, Etobicoke or Scarborough, but I avoid driving in the old city of Toronto in most cases. Occasionally I will do it on the weekends as it takes me only 20 minutes to get downtown by car from where I live outside of rush hours, versus just over an hour on the TTC. But during the week driving is just not worth it.

Speaking of driving in downtown Toronto, if you ever want to find free parking on a Sunday during the day, go to St. Joseph Street (near Bay and Bloor Streets). The two hours of free parking is intended for people attending a Catholic Church located on that street, but I've gone by there during Mass and there's often still spots available. It's basically on the U of T campus just steps from Queen's Park.

[trofirhen]

Originally Posted by ErickMontreal

Yep, this is definitely my kind of place, some of those photos are reminding me Gaspesie, PQ.

... for me the images gave me flashes of Norway, where I'd hitch-hiked age 19. Norway also a lot of steep wall slopes of rock, the mist, and a similar topography, somehow.
Though I think that Newfoundland is nevertheless considerably colder in winter than Norway, which is even further north, but in the Gulf Stream and not the Labrador Current.

[swimmer_spe]

Just heading hone from Halifax. While there I wondered, are they ever going to connect the Mackay bridge with Highway 102 with an actual highway?

[Franco401]

Originally Posted by swimmer_spe

Just heading hone from Halifax. While there I wondered, are they ever going to connect the Mackay bridge with Highway 102 with an actual highway?

No.

The history of urban expressways in Hali is quite interesting. It began in the 1960s with the planning of Harbour Drive, a freeway along the waterfront from around Fairview (with a connection to the Bedford Hwy) to a bridge across the Northwest Arm, connecting to Highway 102 with by way of Northwest Arm Drive, much of which was built and is now a boulevard. The first bit of Harbour Drive was also built, the now-infamous downtown Cogswell interchange.



The plan also proposed a bridge crossing the harbour from around the end of the CN rail cut, this bridge is now being discussed decades later.

Anyway, the cancellation of this plan lead to the construction of the MacKay as well as the first 3-4 km of Highway 111 in Dartmouth. I am unsure why a link to the 102 wasn't built then or ever, but it simply won't happen. The province is already pouring money into widening the 102 to six lanes, which will require corresponding widenings of Bayers Rd, Connaught Ave, and Windsor St. This will cost many millions, the fact that there is public housing, a shopping centre, and a cemetery in the way, and given the shift in attitude towards transit (there is talk of commuter rail) it would be widely opposed.

[Franco401]

Also, here is a link to a pdf showing the original expressway plan:

http://www.halifax.ca/archives/documents/SS-10-15719ProposedHarbourDrive.pdf

[FrAnKs]

Good morning everyone !

I'm quite happy to present you my new video. It is featuring the Route 132 Coastal drive, westbound, between Madeleine-Centre and Rivière-à-Claude for a distance of over 40km, following Coves & Cliffs, on Gaspé Peninsula, Québec.

It is personally on my Top 3 favourite drives in the entire province of Québec.

Enjoy !

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[MonctonRad]

Great video FrAnKs!

I did the tour around the Gaspe myself once, travelling in a clockwise direction. A spectacular drive.

I've always wondered if there is a "right way" and a "wrong way" to drive this route. I suspect it's something lie the Cabot Trail on Cape Breton Island. Most people say the Cabot Trail is more spectacular if you drive it in a clockwise direction. Is the route around the Gaspe similar?? Is clockwise better than counter-clockwise??