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Originally Posted by north 42
It’s the extremely high amount of trucks on that stretch of the 401, and the very high deadly crash rates that warrant expansion to 6 lanes and concrete barriers.
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Yeah, except none of what you just wrote is actually true. People believe it to be true, but the facts don't back it up.
The collision rate on the 401 in southwestern Ontario is in line with the provincial average, and while the volume of commercial traffic is indeed high (as it is on other sections of the 401), the traffic range is well within the capacity of four lane highway.
The 401 between Kitchener and Toronto wasn't widened from four to six lanes until it had almost double the volume of traffic on it. Double. Do you think goods were transported by pack-mule back in the 1980s when that highway was widened?