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Originally Posted by king10
Widening the linc/rhvp would fall on the city’s dime, unless the province hands them the money in lieu of widening the 403. Though I could see council not being enthusiastic to widening to allow for more truck traffic.
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It would most likely involve the province funding and building the expansion, with city input. I believe the interchanges are up to standard, perhaps a few in the valley would need work though. There would need to be a barriered median and maybe drainage work to compensate for additional water runoff, but the new lanes would probably run within the current medians anyway.
A RHVP expansion would trigger a lot of opposition. The truck issue is another, but I believe there's still cut-through truck traffic in the lower city so more restrictions on that may be a palatable exchange (not that anyone on council except the reps for central lower city wards cares).
There's been debate for years about uploading "critical" highways that are currently municipally managed. It includes those two, the Gardiner & DVP, Windsor's E.C. Row Expressway, and maybe others but I can't think of them offhand (eastern portion of Ottawa's Queensway maybe). The Tory government would be loathe to do it, given that it was their party who downloaded many provincial highways in the first place, but that was a long time ago politically (and the PCs have carried on with the 407 East work as planned, despite it being launched under a Liberal government)