06-26-2018, 02:14 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-26-2018, 02:14 PM by danbrotherston.)
(06-26-2018, 02:03 PM)ijmorlan Wrote:(06-26-2018, 01:46 PM)urbd Wrote: 'Add lanes above or below Highway 401 to ease gridlock, board of trade urges'
https://www.therecord.com/news-story/869...ade-urges/
wow.
I was going to make a snarky comment about “… or spend less than that on better transit to more effect” but then I saw they’re talking about that 5km section from Renforth Drive to the Airport expressway where the collector lanes disappear. I’m not convinced that a fantastically expensive second deck is worthwhile, but it is strange having that narrow section in the highway so it’s at least potentially worth investigating.
IIRC, the reason for that is that the 427 bridges weren't built wide enough to accommodate the additional lanes, and the fantastical expense of rebuilding that entire interchange was foregone when the collectors were built. You know, because we probably weren't going to focus all of the population growth in sprawling bedroom communities...I mean, that would be a short sighted policy that no government would implement right....
*sigh*.
Double decking is fantastically expensive, I wonder if it's actually cheaper than widening, or if the board of trade simply believes that the political appetite for the property acquisitions that would be required is no longer present.