Highways in Canada - Page 67

sonysnob · #**1321** Posted **Oct 19, 2012, 5:11 PM**

A multi-year construction project which saw Hwy 8 widened from four to eight lanes finished earlier this year. I have attached some photos:

Looking west across the Grand River bridge:

Pre Construction:

Post Construction (2012):

Looking west from the King Street interchange:
Pre Construction:

During Construction (2011):

Post Construction (2012):

More images here:
http://www.asphaltplanet.ca/ON/hwy_3-9_images/Hwy8_p2_images.htm

someone123 · #**1322** Posted **Oct 19, 2012, 6:40 PM**

I thought this picture was interesting. An interchange and roundabouts along highway 102 in Halifax:

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isaidso · #**1323** Posted **Oct 19, 2012, 7:27 PM**

Nova Scotia certainly has a rugged beauty to it.

MolsonExport · #**1324** Posted **Oct 19, 2012, 8:50 PM**

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Originally Posted by sonysnob

A multi-year construction project which saw Hwy 8 widened from four to eight lanes finished earlier this year. I have attached some photos:

Looking west across the Grand River bridge:

Pre Construction:

Post Construction (2012):

Looking west from the King Street interchange:
Pre Construction:

During Construction (2011):

Post Construction (2012):

More images here:
http://www.asphaltplanet.ca/ON/hwy_3-9_images/Hwy8_p2_images.htm

Very impressive, compared to what we get down the road in London.
Our urban highway (Highbury), chock full of at grade intersections and dreck:

davpart

Metro-One · #**1325** Posted **Oct 19, 2012, 9:00 PM**

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Originally Posted by someone123

I thought this picture was interesting. An interchange and roundabouts along highway 102 in Halifax:

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Yeah, I love this new style of interchange, nearly every new interchange in BC is now built with roundabouts.

My favorite on here is this new one in Victoria:

Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tranbc/6400777223/in/set-72157626457329656/

vid · #**1326** Posted **Oct 19, 2012, 9:38 PM**

Those are called Dumbbell Interchanges.

MolsonExport · #**1327** Posted **Oct 20, 2012, 8:26 PM**

I am very jealous of those scenic Halifax and Victoria highways. People literally fall asleep at the wheel due to the sheer banality of the scenery from the 401 (especially between London and Windsor).

sonysnob · #**1328** Posted **Oct 20, 2012, 8:57 PM**

Those roundabout interchanges look pretty neat from the air. With the proliferation of roundabouts at interchanges there may never be the need to build another parclo again.

FrAnKs · #**1329** Posted **Oct 21, 2012, 12:37 AM**

The roads in Canada are getting better! .... now , let's fix the Quebec side...

someone123 · #**1330** Posted **Oct 21, 2012, 1:07 AM**

It is funny because fashions in traffic planning have gone back and forth over the years. There were some large roundabouts built in the Halifax area starting in the 1940s or so. Of course, by the 1970s and later they were heavily congested and the roundabout design itself acquired a bad reputation. The Armdale Rotary still exists but the Micmac Rotary was replaced with a highway interchange.

Armdale. One of the problems here was that prior to 2005 cars entering the rotary had the right of way. They added reversing lanes to the nearby streets but it still just handles too much traffic and it's a big pain at rush hour. It's also annoying for pedestrians to cross.

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The old Micmac Rotary.

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Newer Highway 111 interchange in Dartmouth that replaced the Micmac Rotary

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Halifax also has a bunch of complicated intersections where 3 or 4 streets meet in older parts of the city, and roundabouts have been suggested as an improvement for those areas. I'm not sure if anything will come of it, but I think they'd probably be an improvement.

haljackey · #**1331** Posted **Oct 21, 2012, 4:02 PM**

Yo Dawg I heard you like orange markings

060 by haljackey, on Flickr

(Photo by me)

FrAnKs · #**1332** Posted **Oct 21, 2012, 4:11 PM**

One thing I noticed in Ontario compared to Quebec : The number of trucks.

SteelTown · #**1333** Posted **Oct 21, 2012, 4:31 PM**

Lincoln Alexander passed away so maybe post some pictures of the Lincoln Alexander Expressway in memorandum?

SteelTown · #**1334** Posted **Oct 21, 2012, 4:41 PM**

This is the best I got, Lincoln opening up the newly built Lincoln Alexander Parkway in 1997.

Wharn · #**1335** Posted **Oct 21, 2012, 7:41 PM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

Very impressive, compared to what we get down the road in London.
Our urban highway (Highbury), chock full of at grade intersections and dreck

To be fair, most of Highbury is an arterial; north of Hamilton Road it doesn't even pretend to be a freeway. But between the river and 100 metres before the 401, it's a proper, grade-separated freeway:

(Photo by haljackey)

Our urban highway would be the VMP, which is nothing more than an arterial in drag. And a dangerous one at that- 90 km/h limit with at-grade intersections every mile? wtf?

As usual, K-W has its shit together while London drives 'round in circles.

sonysnob · #**1336** Posted **Oct 21, 2012, 7:58 PM**

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Originally Posted by Wharn

To be fair, most of Highbury is an arterial; north of Hamilton Road it doesn't even pretend to be a freeway. But between the river and 100 metres before the 401, it's a proper, grade-separated freeway:

(Photo by haljackey)

Our urban highway would be the VMP, which is nothing more than an arterial in drag. And a dangerous one at that- 90 km/h limit with at-grade intersections every mile? wtf?

As usual, K-W has its shit together while London drives 'round in circles.

But...

if London had a municipal freeway network, Londoners would have nothing to talk about.

harls · #**1337** Posted **Oct 21, 2012, 8:10 PM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

People literally fall asleep at the wheel due to the sheer banality of the scenery from the 401 (especially between London and Windsor).

Much like the borefest between Ottawa and Montreal. In a couple of months, A-50 will be complete and it will at least make you try to stay awake (2-lane divided super 2, holy SHIT-I'm-falling-ASLEEP-strips in the median, rocky cliffs, fatal fiery explosive drops from crazy-high river crossings..)

sonysnob · #**1338** Posted **Oct 21, 2012, 8:17 PM**

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Originally Posted by harls

Much like the borefest between Ottawa and Montreal. In a couple of months, A-50 will be complete and it will at least make you try to stay awake (2-lane divided super 2, holy SHIT-I'm-falling-ASLEEP-strips in the median, rocky cliffs, fatal fiery explosive drops from crazy-high river crossings..)

The River Rouge bridge is amazing. I can't to take some photos of it next time i am up that way.

harls · #**1339** Posted **Oct 21, 2012, 8:36 PM**

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Originally Posted by sonysnob

The River Rouge bridge is amazing. I can't to take some photos of it next time i am up that way.

Yeah, it's too bad you can't stop on it. it's a crazy high bridge. When you are crossing it, you can't even tell.

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sonysnob · #**1340** Posted **Oct 21, 2012, 9:03 PM**

Picture of the new bridge that will carry Hwy 7 overtop of the 407 East Extension just west of Brooklin. Picture taken today