Highways in Canada

[sa230e]

Originally Posted by haljackey

One more timelapse driving video: This time continuing on the 401 from Highway 403 to Highway 8 and into Kitchener.

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Skip to 5:30 if you just want to see the Kitchener part.

The lack of a flyover ramp from 401 eastbound to 8 northbound is a real pain. Its not like the 8 can't handle the extra traffic now that it is 8 lanes.

I think the lack of a flyover was due to there being too little traffic to justify the connection. The MTO is stingy like that. Kind of like the Highway 401/402 interchange. To get on to 402 from 401 West you have to use Highway 4.

I have heard there is a proposal to turn that interchange into a full T-interchange, though. I don't think it's going to happen any time soon, though.

Cool videos, though.

[sonysnob]

Originally Posted by sa230e

I think the lack of a flyover was due to there being too little traffic to justify the connection. The MTO is stingy like that. Kind of like the Highway 401/402 interchange. To get on to 402 from 401 West you have to use Highway 4.

Do you really think that the 401/402 interchange should have full movements?

[sa230e]

Originally Posted by sonysnob

Do you really think that the 401/402 interchange should have full movements?

I was using it more as a comparison.

[haljackey]

Originally Posted by sa230e

I was using it more as a comparison.

Well the 401 and 402 are both east-west routes whereas the 8 is north-south. If you're entering Kitchener/Waterloo you want to take the 8 to get into the city (but can take other exits to get to the 'burbs).



Oh also I found this post in local Calgary showing Stoney Trail construction pics: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=127346&page=215

[haljackey]

Footage from a bus showing the Hurontario-401 widening

It's shaky, but shows the project in pretty decent detail.

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[SignalHillHiker]

Impressive!

[sonysnob]

I uploaded a few new pictures of the most recently completed section of Hwy 69 south of Sudbury tonight:







The whole collection (and some new photos from the two lane sections of highway) are available here:
http://asphaltplanet.ca/ON/hwy_60-69_images/Hwy69_p4_images.htm

[Innsertnamehere]

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toro...the-gardiner-expressway/article12506359/

New Gardiner replacement concepts.

WARNING, LARGE IMAGES

1. Improve – architectsAlliance and Diller Scofidio + Retro – A view of the public and cultural pavilions under the Gardiner



2. Improve – Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg + Bjarke Ingels Group – New park landscape overlooks the Gardiner



3. Remove – James Corner Field Operations – A seasonally changing landscape replaces a fixed concrete environment



4. Remove – Office of Metropolitan Architecture – Lake Shore is an 8-lane at-grade urban boulevard lined with buildings on both sides



5. Replace – Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture – A 6-lane Lake Shore Boulevard and streetcar right-of-way are built at grade



6. Replace – West 8 + DTAH + Cecil Beaumond AGU – A new expressway is built up against the rail corridor



Source

[Dado]

Assen, Netherlands-based British ex-pat cycling advocate David Hembrow pours cold water on the Ontario Traffic Council's final draft of its updated Bicycle Facilities (Book 18) of the Ontario Traffic Manual:

http://www.aviewfromthecyclepath.com/2013/06/ontario-traffic-manual-bicycle.html

The manual itself:
http://www.otc.org/Book18FinalDraft.pdf
http://www.otc.org/research.cfm


Pity we couldn't just learn from the country with the safest roads on the planet: the Netherlands.

[sonysnob]

Originally Posted by Innsertnamehere

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toro...the-gardiner-expressway/article12506359/

New Gardiner replacement concepts.

I love how in the fifth photo down, there is a person playing the violin on the street corner. Seems pretty plausible...

[kwoldtimer]

Originally Posted by sonysnob

I love how in the fifth photo down, there is a person playing the violin on the street corner. Seems pretty plausible...

How did you see them. The link was blocked for me......

[sonysnob]

^ For me, there was a "show" button in the above post that revealed the images. They are huge as the OP noted.

[kwoldtimer]

Originally Posted by sonysnob

^ For me, there was a "show" button in the above post that revealed the images. They are huge as the OP noted.

Thanks!

[ssiguy]

I think they should bury the Gardiner from the Miss boundary all the way to the DVP and then north 20km to York Region to make for a true urban renaissance.

Needless to say I'm being sarcastic but my point is that although many of these designs are quite interesting and novel they mean absolutely nothing without the dollar amounts that go with them. Without the price tags one cannot distinguish which options are even feasible and of the one's that are {if any as we now Toronto's record on transportation infrastructure isn't stellar} which ones offer the best value for the money spent.

Some of these plans seem to proceed from the false assumption that money is no object but it is THE object or something would have been done years ago.

These proposals are just pipe dreams until the price tags are included and they may find out that after the price tags are presented they may all be pipe dreams.

[sonysnob]

New Hwy 404 vid taken last week:
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[sa230e]

I love your videos. Great quality, very well done and good taste in music. Thanks for putting them together.

[sonysnob]

^ Thanks, I appreciate that.

I have shot a few videos, and I notice that (despite my best efforts) my footage always ends up on at angle. Some of that is just the crown in the road, but one videographer to another, any ideas on how to correct it?

[Metro-One]

Just do it in post, zoom in your image size to about 104% to 111% (depending on the size of the angle) and just correct the horizon there.

Or, try to correct your mount by sliding a wedge under the lower side.

[sa230e]

I never even noticed it. It certainly doesn't detract from the video.

[Wharn]

Originally Posted by sonysnob

New Hwy 404 vid taken last week:
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This seems to be moving unusually well. Nice video, mate.