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Originally Posted by roger1818
Or go to a single lane and have people pull over onto the shoulder to let oncoming traffic pass? 
There are significant safety benefits to going from 2 lanes to 4 on heavily used roads, beyond 4 lanes the only benefit is a small increase in capacity, and induced demand means that increased capacity will quickly be eaten up.
For this reason, I have been opposed to the current widening of the 417 from 6 to 8 lanes. It could be more easily justified if they were designed as HOV or bus lanes, but the plan is to make them open to all motor vehicles. |
Based on the design plans, and what has been implemented so far from Carling west, I understood the 'widening' is mostly extensions of on-ramps into the next off-ramps. To fix the capacity issues at several of our local streets causing backups and dangerous accidents (Bronson off-ramp eastbound? remember that?). Will the 'new' highway truly be 8 lanes each way, PLUS on/off ramps? Doesn't seem like there's enough space for that, even with the new bridges.
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