Highway 401 Widening - Highway 8 to Townline Road

[danbrotherston]

I am hopeful that you're right, Iain, but we see the same lane configuration on Hwy 8N where the ramps from Sportsworld and King continue as new lanes. Nevertheless, most traffic immediately merges left rather than continuing in their lane, significantly slowing the second lane from the left, and leaving the two rightmost lanes almost empty. I'm not sure KW drivers can figure out something as radical as a ramp continuing on as a new lane.

Speaking from experience, this configuration is atypical, when I merge onto the highway, I generally need to merge left out of the merge lane, I use the King St. and Sportsworld onramps once in a while, and rarely remember that it continues as a lane.

I'll also add that at least the King St. starts wit double wide lane markings indicating a merge lane ending, so...there's also a failure of design.