innsertnamehere
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I found this rendering of the new Garden City Skyway on IO's website - unsurprisingly it looks like it'll be a pretty standard structure:
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I took the Gardiner to and from Hamilton today. It wasn’t that bad. My way out at 8:30 am was Bayview to DVP south, Gardiner to Yonge, Lakeshore to Gardiner, QEW to 403. At 2pm it was 403, QEW, Gardiner all the way to the DVP and Bayview. By 2:45 pm I was at the eastbound Gardiner lane restrictions and I thought it wasn’t that bad. The trick is to avoid rush hour.Doubt it tbh, the biggest cause of traffic eastbound IMO is that when you closed the lakeshore off ramp everyone HAS to get off at jarvis. You have the entire right lane blocked with people entering/exiting the highway, additionally some people in the left lane stay there until the last second and slam on the brakes.
I'm not sure I follow the logic of twinning the bridge. QEW is quite constrained through St Catharines, Are they expecting to expropriate neighbouring proprerties to expand the ROW?I found this rendering of the new Garden City Skyway on IO's website - unsurprisingly it looks like it'll be a pretty standard structure:
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The DVP works the same way: know when to avoid it and it's totally fine.I took the Gardiner to and from Hamilton today. It wasn’t that bad. My way out at 8:30 am was Bayview to DVP south, Gardiner to Yonge, Lakeshore to Gardiner, QEW to 403. At 2pm it was 403, QEW, Gardiner all the way to the DVP and Bayview. By 2:45 pm I was at the eastbound Gardiner lane restrictions and I thought it wasn’t that bad. The trick is to avoid rush hour.
I'm not sure I follow the logic of twinning the bridge. QEW is quite constrained through St Catharines, Are they expecting to expropriate neighbouring proprerties to expand the ROW?
The new structure is getting built to the north of the existing structure. And yes, it requires some expropriation, particularly through the industrial area on the west side of the Welland Canal.I'm not sure I follow the logic of twinning the bridge. QEW is quite constrained through St Catharines, Are they expecting to expropriate neighbouring proprerties to expand the ROW?
it’s bad almost always for me, weekends, evenings. Depends on the direction too. The gardiner pretty much always jams up going eastThe DVP works the same way: know when to avoid it and it's totally fine.
What kind of comment is this? You're saying people shouldn't use the DVP when people need it most?The DVP works the same way: know when to avoid it and it's totally fine.
I would expect this to be solved with the universal deployment of plate reading technology that seems to be in progress, given that HOT permits are issued and not instant.Does anyone else think it's time to just do away with the HOV lanes? Now that the Ontario government allows single occupant vehicles to pay to use them, they're practically impossible for the police to enforce. I often see drivers (with passengers) treat the lane as a passing/ fast lane and start tailgating the driver in front of them. Plus I see tons of vehicles with multiple occupants, and they don't seem to care to use the HOV lanes.
How have those newer HOV lanes on the 400 with the switching lanes been working out? Have they been helping with the flow of traffic in the HOVs?
Putting bus lanes on the highways would probably be more beneficial than HOV lanes. Add 407 style cameras along the bus lanes, so whenever a driver decides to use them to bypass traffic, we can snap a photo of their license plate and mail them the bill.
The 403 bus lanes that make part of the Mississauga Transitway seem useless because so many drivers treat the lanes as a shoulder when their car/ truck breaks down.
I feel like many here are privileged enough they don't need to go into work 5x a weekWhat kind of comment is this? You're saying people shouldn't use the DVP when people need it most?
Good thing they limited that to a few weekends. What if Lakeshore West GO line and Line2 are shutdown too while they do that.I wonder how the traffic would look like on the Gardiner during summer weekends with the Lake Shore closures...