Highway 401 Widening - Highway 8 to Townline Road

[sevenman]

Two things:

1.  There does seem to be enough space to fit 5+2 at the flyover, so I retract my previous statement. Apologies for my error.  Still to be determined if that's how it is eventually configured.

2. They've started paving the unpaved bits before Franklin on the EB lanes.

  No apologies necessary.  The configuration would certainly be simpler to just add the two flyover lanes to the three existing lanes.

  I also wonder about possibility that the 401EB widens to four lanes just past King St. E. and then the EB on ramp onto the 401 from King St. E. becomes the fifth lane as it passes under the Fountain St. bridge and from there the two Hwy 8 flyover lanes merge with those five.  I think that is what the final configuration will be when the 401 is widened from Homer W. to King St. E. in the future.  We may know by this weekend as the King St. on ramp is scheduled to re-open.  

  It will also be interesting to see the 401 WB go from five lanes back to three rather quickly after the Fountain St. bridge and see if this causes any merging issues.  Regardless, it looks as if we'll soon see 14 lanes under the Fountain St. Bridge, whether now with the completion of this contract or in the near future.

Cheers