afransen
Senior Member
^Why I think HOV lanes are a complete failure. They cause a lot of congestion with people entering and exiting them.
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Right. On summer weekends, even the HOV lanes are jammed on the QEW/403 because so many families are heading to Niagara Falls.From my experiences, HOV are a waste having only 2 people in a vehicle when it should be at least 3/4 and should be treated as a passing lane.
Most cases, vehicles are going faster than the passing lane and being abused by single drivers. Exiting and entering can be a safety issues to the point that I have seen drivers cut across all lanes for an off road ramp.
Very rare we use the HOV lanes unless traffic is slow if I can do 10-20 over the limit in the first place in the passing lane.
Enforcement of these lanes is non existing and have see OPP mark/unmarked vehicles following single driver without stopping it.
Our trip westbound as we head to Dutton...
No as the old infoCentre was the station and was removed for the expansion. They built a new combine division station in the area and haven't check it out yet. They close Port Credit down along with X's for this new division.There are signs for an OPP station. Is the new one at the site of the former InfoCentre open?
Our trip westbound as we head to Dutton.
The westbound lanes are more advance than the eastbound that we could see in the heavy traffic. New on ramp eastbound from Winston Churchill going eastbound.
^Why I think HOV lanes are a complete failure. They cause a lot of congestion with people entering and exiting them.
Particularly frustrating when you slow to a crawl, and the express is fine. I keep trying to connive on how to go up the 427, and get onto Eglinton or the express lanes somehow. Google suggests taking the 401 eastbound to Dixon, and looping there to westbound - but I've never tried it.It always bugged me that coming off the 427, you were stuck on the collectors all the way to Hurontario Street as well, and that you also had all the trucks merging from the express to get over to Dixie Road and the 410.
They could insert a loop ramp (or a flyover?) to 401 WB express via EglintonParticularly frustrating when you slow to a crawl, and the express is fine. I keep trying to connive on how to go up the 427, and get onto Eglinton or the express lanes somehow. Google suggests taking the 401 eastbound to Dixon, and looping there to westbound - but I've never tried it.
And then there's this ... seems a bit rude though ...
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