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Originally Posted by The Jabroni
I hate asking this, but it's bound to be asked sooner or later, but...
...is it actually worth it to twin the remaining 16 km of the TCH in Manitoba, considering the nature (almost literally) of the terrain that goes through it? I know many cottagers go to NW Ont. for long weekends and such, but, digging through all that rock... it's too much trouble for engineers and workers to go through all that again, as it's evident on the rock face with those drill marks when you pass by those large rocks.
Then again, I'd love to see the TCH twinned fully from border to border or beyond. 110 km/h from at least Kenora to Calgary would be nice (or in this case, bump it up from 90 km/h to 100 km/h, pending the safety IF there was going to be a twinning from the border to Kenora).
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Well it was all supposed to be twinned years ago around Kenora, but then the Ontario government abandoned northern Ontario. I remember seeing the call for tenders for the Kenora by-pass (maybe around 25 years ago) and it stated specifically that it was to be 2 lanes initially and then 4 lanes by some year that at the time sounded far off in the future but was probably 1990 or something. There's nothing particularly unusual in doing rock cuts. It's probably a tight squeeze given the density of development in the Whiteshell though, plus the fact that a couple of interchanges / overpasses would be required (as exist now). They did do that little bit right at the border in the mid-70s, where they built the tourist centre. Originally the old highway (now 44) started just inside the Ontario border and veered north; they changed it all around at that time.