General Road and Highway Discussion

[jamincan]

I'm doubtful that there would be backups coming down the escarpment. Most of the present backups start with all the traffic coming on at James Snow Pkwy and Trafalgar. I can't see too much induced traffic being generated beyond that due to the Greenbelt. Perhaps backups might get worse heading west from Guelph and Cambridge, but they'll still have the same bottleneck as before.

It could be useful to add a climbing lane on the 401 heading west-bound, though. Backups happen all the time there due to the one truck going 101 trying to pass another going 100. In truth, while traffic slows down there, it never really seems that terrible to me.