Highway 401 Widening - Highway 8 to Townline Road

[sevenman]

^ Incorrect  There will be 3 through lanes + 2 flyover lanes. There is not enough space for 7 lanes.

  Actually you may be incorrect, there definitely is room for seven EB lanes under the the Fountain St. bridge.  That's the main reason the bridge was rebuilt and lengthened in the manner in which it was.  The spacing between the new centre bridge columns and the next set of columns allows for the five 401 EB through lanes.  Then the spacing between this set of columns and the bridge abutment allows for the two EB flyover lanes.  
  Now the MTO may choose to allow the flyover lanes to just be added to the three existing EB lanes and continue as five with no merge but that's not the long term design of the 401 and it will then force lane remarking when the proposed widening from Homer Watson to this new upcoming five lane section occurs.