TransitBart
Senior Member
Why a no, no? Too tricky for the plebs?
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Why a no, no? Too tricky for the plebs?
innsertnamehere
Superstar
Merging and braking in the passing lane. You end up with people "camping" in the left lane to make their exit and people merging into the left lane doing 80km/h with cars behind them doing 130.
TransitBart
Senior Member
And properly signed this can't be done?
timio
Active Member
In England they've solved this by building the service centres on a structure crossing the motorways in some places with parking and gas on each side, but the main building is shared.
darth_freeman
Active Member
Another solution to combine the service centre for both directions, but requires a single bridge overpass - Austria near Vienna:
https://www.google.ca/maps/@48.0574457,16.713785,844m/data=!3m1!1e3
A good solution given it doesn't have the safety issue of left lane exits. And building and maintaining one bridge pales in comparison to the cost of a second service centre.
https://www.google.ca/maps/@48.0574457,16.713785,844m/data=!3m1!1e3
A good solution given it doesn't have the safety issue of left lane exits. And building and maintaining one bridge pales in comparison to the cost of a second service centre.
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Kitsune
Senior Member
The one at Sequin Trail is currently used by Greyhound on the Sudbury - Toronto bus as a pitstop. It's also the last Lick's open.
Johnny Au
Senior Member
Soon, that Lick's would become a Hero Certified Burgers.
muller877
Senior Member
And there is not an Onroute on the 401 between Cambridge and Newcastle. If the 401 is not suitable within the GTA then likewise the 407 is not as well. Although I am surprised that Ontario did not provision for a future Onroute in the extension (at least expropriate the land for one).
Does anyone know when they will get rid of the eastbound eyesore of the abandoned Onroute in Mississauga? The land must be valuable and can be developed into industrial.
innsertnamehere
Superstar
Is there not a Licks still in Scarborough on Kingston Road?
am29
Active Member
There's a Lick's on Warden at Eglinton as well.
Transportfan
Senior Member
The MTO probably didn't think a service centre would be needed in Toronto back in the day when most people had their trips origin or destination in the city. Even today that's probably the case and the reason the one in Mississauga was closed.
ShonTron
Moderator
Yeah, that's right. It filled in a rather long gap between Barrie and Parry Sound. It's pretty easy to get in and out of that one too.
Markster
Senior Member
Well, the MTO didn't have a problem building left lane exits and merges when they built the 416.
I guess they might be loathe to do it again, because their implementation caused all sorts of issues there. They didn't realize that people might want to exit at Moodie Dr, needing to cross 3 lanes of traffic in a short time. The "solution" was to wall it off and cut off access to Moodie.
timio
Active Member
Didn't the lease come up for this one and due to the eventual need for the land to widen the 401 through the area, MTO didn't renew?
jamincan
Active Member
The greatest portion of that land wouldn't be useful for a highway widening anyway.