Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph

[sevenman]

I suspect those ramps will be in a new location/configuration when they reopen under the new bridge.

I hope I'm wrong but my understanding is the current/closed ramps on Bruce and Edna aren't part of the overall final plans, meaning they'll eventually be closed for good anyway. 

Which is why I was really hoping the new NB 85 ramp, extending from Bruce st. to Wellington, would already be in place to provide an alternate route before the Victoria street bridge closure.  That plus the fact the existing NB 85 Bruce street ramp will have been closed for the majority (say 75%? ) of 24 month period come November. 

Good news is the light timing has been changed on Frederick to move the extra volume of traffic.  Bad news if you're a tractor-trailer trying to make a turn at one of the intersections onto Frederick.  Two lanes to turn from and two lanes to turn into is just not happening (to be honest, I think the half dozen truck drivers I saw attempting this today will re-think their detour routes).

  The existing on/off ramps at Edna are to be configured into a road that will pass under the new extended Victoria St. bridge and the existing railway and continue to a new four-way intersection at Wellington St. where the existing southbound 85 off-ramp meets Wellington St.

  The Bruce St. extension could not be built yet as the entire existing Victoria St. / Bruce St. intersection is going to be raised aprox 1/2  metre.  The reason for this as I understand it, is that the new 130 metre long Victoria St. bridge (14 lanes of traffic below ) has only four spans and a deeper cross-section and the bridge deck will sit slightly higher than the existing bridge.

  The new (temporary) Bruce St. on-ramp is to be slightly reconfigured as the current on-ramp lies exactly where a set of columns for the new bridge are to be located.  This new ramp will  be located slightly to the east of where it enters the expressway now.  The new two-lane ramp from the northbound expressway to the new hwy 7 eastbound will be located where this temporary ramp will be located.  The fact that they're constructing this temporary on-ramp suggests to me that the Bruce St. extension won't be built anytime soon, unfortunately

  Speaking of detours, the existing Frederick St. bridge is going to be removed and a new slightly longer one re-built sometime after the completion of the new Victoria St. bridge.