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  Thread: Highway 401 Widening - Highway 8 to Townline Road
Post: RE: Highway 401 Widening - Highway 8 to Townline R...

jeffster Wrote: (08-01-2019, 05:18 PM) -- timio Wrote: (07-31-2019, 11:10 AM) -- Still holes in the pavement and no signs of adding the final layers of asphalt to the new lanes as of this morning. M...
  p2ee Transportation and Infrastructure 441 304,080 08-05-2019, 01:03 AM
  Thread: Highway 401 Widening - Highway 8 to Townline Road
Post: RE: Highway 401 Widening - Highway 8 to Townline R...

Coke6pk Wrote: (07-05-2019, 02:36 PM) -- I found it weird that the inside lanes were paved and lines drawn, but not the HOV lane markings.  Will they be re-paving and re-marking all of these lanes ag...
  p2ee Transportation and Infrastructure 441 304,080 07-05-2019, 08:54 PM
  Thread: Highway 401 Widening - Highway 8 to Townline Road
Post: RE: Highway 401 Widening - Highway 8 to Townline R...

This project is about 2 months off from the scheduled completion. Has anyone seen signs that it will meet that timeline?
  p2ee Transportation and Infrastructure 441 304,080 05-18-2019, 02:02 AM
  Thread: Highway 401 Widening - Highway 8 to Townline Road
Post: RE: Highway 401 Widening - Highway 8 to Townline R...

Canard Wrote: (12-24-2018, 09:59 AM) -- This is why I’m optimistic the new configuration will solve all of these problems, which those on-ramps continuing on as lanes 4 and 5. The reverse will ha...
  p2ee Transportation and Infrastructure 441 304,080 12-24-2018, 06:07 PM
  Thread: Highway 401 Widening - Highway 8 to Townline Road
Post: RE: Highway 401 Widening - Highway 8 to Townline R...

Canard Wrote: (07-26-2018, 10:04 PM) -- Whoah, you really think the whole thing is going to be done by the end of the year?!  That'd be awesome, but I totally don't see it... I hope you're right thou...
  p2ee Transportation and Infrastructure 441 304,080 08-09-2018, 05:17 PM
  Thread: Funding roads (taxes, user fees etc)
Post: RE: Funding roads (taxes, user fees etc)

Let's approximate that 80% of households have a car and drive. An extremely conservative approximation, because the number is likely in the 90% range. So based on what's being suggested here, those ...
  p2ee Transportation and Infrastructure 170 100,154 03-04-2018, 02:15 PM
  Thread: Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph
Post: RE: Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph

jamincan Wrote: (01-30-2018, 01:03 PM) -- PAHTDC Wrote: (01-29-2018, 11:02 PM) -- Separate from CTV discussion, can anyone confirm what is happening with Wellington to SB 85 onramps? I thought I saw...
  p2ee Transportation and Infrastructure 927 822,057 02-02-2018, 11:33 AM
  Thread: Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph
Post: RE: Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph

SammyOES Wrote: (01-29-2018, 01:48 PM) -- Someone mentioned a few years ago (maybe in this thread) that tree clearing has to happen at certain times of the year for environmental reasons.  Not sure i...
  p2ee Transportation and Infrastructure 927 822,057 02-02-2018, 11:30 AM
  Thread: Highway 401 Widening - Highway 8 to Townline Road
Post: RE: Highway 401 Widening - Highway 8 to Hespeler R...

They have diverted westbound lanes into the eastbound lanes "express" lanes (I know will be no collector-express, but using that terminology makes it easy to understand what I mean) for most of the pr...
  p2ee Transportation and Infrastructure 441 304,080 12-09-2017, 11:49 PM
  Thread: General Road and Highway Discussion
Post: RE: General Road and Highway Discussion

nms Wrote: (11-13-2017, 02:28 PM) -- I read somewhere that a portion of Highway 401 will be closed in Waterloo Region from Nov 17 to Nov 19 (or thereabouts) to allow for bridge installation/replaceme...
  p2ee Transportation and Infrastructure 3,086 2,212,193 11-13-2017, 06:14 PM
  Thread: Highway 401 Widening - Highway 8 to Townline Road
Post: RE: Highway 401 Widening - Highway 8 to Hespeler R...

I noticed they are not installing any more high mast lighting after they installed them at the highway 8/401 interchange. I thought they were going to keep installing them east toward Hespeler. The ...
  p2ee Transportation and Infrastructure 441 304,080 09-27-2017, 10:22 AM
  Thread: General Road and Highway Discussion
Post: RE: General Road and Highway Discussion

Canard Wrote: (09-08-2017, 07:20 AM) -- What are they doing on Hwy 8 West/North at the big hill? Seems like every day when I'm driving home, more of the pavement is torn up! Are they just resurfacing...
  p2ee Transportation and Infrastructure 3,086 2,212,193 09-08-2017, 10:58 AM
  Thread: General Road and Highway Discussion
Post: RE: General Road and Highway Discussion

The pavement on Weber is in terrible shape for basically the entirety of Waterloo. University to Northfield is not in much better shape compared to Erb to University.
  p2ee Transportation and Infrastructure 3,086 2,212,193 08-01-2017, 01:24 PM
  Thread: Highway 401 Widening - Highway 8 to Townline Road
Post: RE: Highway 401 Widening - Highway 8 to Hespeler R...

The lane marker issue is a bigger problem on city streets than highways. For some inexplicable reason (maybe because of the traffic, or because the quality of construction) I haven't had anywhere nea...
  p2ee Transportation and Infrastructure 441 304,080 07-30-2017, 03:46 PM
  Thread: Highway 401 Widening - Highway 8 to Townline Road
Post: RE: Highway 401 Widening - Highway 8 to Hespeler R...

I noticed that the high mast lights that were installed are now functional. I was not expecting them to be functional until they were installed all the way to Hespeler, so that was a good surprise.
  p2ee Transportation and Infrastructure 441 304,080 07-30-2017, 05:54 AM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

Great news. I believe that was the last major closure. All current or upcoming closures appear to be very short term.
  p2ee Transportation and Infrastructure 17,473 10,468,849 07-28-2017, 05:36 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

So - any news on the King Street grade separation opening? IIRC it was scheduled for 4 PM today.
  p2ee Transportation and Infrastructure 17,473 10,468,849 07-28-2017, 04:57 PM
  Thread: General Road and Highway Discussion
Post: RE: General Road and Highway Discussion

It appears that Duke between Ontario and Queen is closed yet again for Hydro work for another month. It was just opened maybe 2 weeks ago after being closed since February..
  p2ee Transportation and Infrastructure 3,086 2,212,193 07-26-2017, 11:08 PM
  Thread: General Road and Highway Discussion
Post: RE: General Road and Highway Discussion

It is a different argument with respect to whether HST should count toward subsidies but it is not off-topic with respect to the original article that spurred this entire discussion. We hear how driv...
  p2ee Transportation and Infrastructure 3,086 2,212,193 07-17-2017, 10:49 AM
  Thread: General Road and Highway Discussion
Post: RE: General Road and Highway Discussion

The entire discussion here seems to be one where neither side will agree with the other, so it's basically a waste of time. Besides the HST on gas and on vehicle purchase, one important piece no one ...
  p2ee Transportation and Infrastructure 3,086 2,212,193 07-17-2017, 10:03 AM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

Zebra crossing was also put in on Ontario and Duke. The "mid-July" timeline for the King Street Grade separation has come (I suppose there's another week or so left until it's gone). Any remote ch...
  p2ee Transportation and Infrastructure 17,473 10,468,849 07-15-2017, 12:15 PM
  Thread: General Road and Highway Discussion
Post: RE: General Road and Highway Discussion

tomh009 Wrote: (07-12-2017, 09:57 PM) -- GRT needs to pay its capital as well as operating costs so any shortfall must be covered by the subsidy.  There are no other funding mechanisms other than sub...
  p2ee Transportation and Infrastructure 3,086 2,212,193 07-12-2017, 10:35 PM
  Thread: General Road and Highway Discussion
Post: RE: General Road and Highway Discussion

tomh009 Wrote: (07-12-2017, 09:25 PM) -- p2ee Wrote: (07-12-2017, 08:43 PM) -- I am thinking of the Illinois tollway, which is almost entirely self-funded (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-toll...
  p2ee Transportation and Infrastructure 3,086 2,212,193 07-12-2017, 09:49 PM
  Thread: General Road and Highway Discussion
Post: RE: General Road and Highway Discussion

SammyOES2 Wrote: (07-12-2017, 08:53 PM) -- Oh we're back to the silly argument where a lot of people pay a bunch of money for roads, but we don't count that money because that's in their role as "tax...
  p2ee Transportation and Infrastructure 3,086 2,212,193 07-12-2017, 09:03 PM
  Thread: General Road and Highway Discussion
Post: RE: General Road and Highway Discussion

danbrotherston Wrote: (07-12-2017, 07:44 PM) -- Additionally, a number of toll roads have repeatedly gone bankrupt, or had the state bail them out rather than raise tolls to cover maintenance costs. ...
  p2ee Transportation and Infrastructure 3,086 2,212,193 07-12-2017, 08:52 PM
  Thread: General Road and Highway Discussion
Post: RE: General Road and Highway Discussion

MidTowner Wrote: (07-12-2017, 07:20 PM) -- p2ee, which U.S. highways do you have in mind? A lot of turnpikes in the U.S. do charge tolls, and you're right that they're low, but the tolls do not cover...
  p2ee Transportation and Infrastructure 3,086 2,212,193 07-12-2017, 08:43 PM

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