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Originally Posted by 1overcosc
No. They concluded that HOV lanes are not practical east of the 416 because exits are too closely spaced.
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Seems like a silly excuse to me. Just make them combination HOV/express lanes and only permit people to enter/leave them every few exits.
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I like HOV lanes as a concept but I do agree that unless they extend all the way into downtown they're rather useless. If we were going to do them, it should have HOV lanes from Kanata all the way to Kent,
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Or better yet, to the 174 split (and then add them to the 174).
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To do this, the new lanes between 416 and Carling would be built as HOV and the inner lanes from Carling to Kent would be converted from regular traffic to HOV.
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The problem is, once a lane is assigned to general use, it can never be taken back as an HOV lane, and widening that much highway all at once is a non starter.
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They should have just left the HOV lanes out of it. Instead of a 8 lane highway from the 416 to Kanata (6 regular lanes + 2 HOV) it should have been just 6 regular lanes.
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You forgot the bus lanes. It is actually 10 lanes (6 regular + 2 HOV + 2 bus lanes). Having both HOV and bus lanes is redundant as buses are great users of HOV lanes.
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They also should have never widened the 7 out to Carleton Place. That just encourages out-of-city sprawl.
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I'm not sure I agree with you on that one. Carleton Place is far enough away that even with a wider highway 7, it isn't very attractive for those who work anywhere other than Kanata and there are better options for them. There hasn't been much development between Stittsville and Carleton Place, so I don't see that type of sprawl. However, it does make travelling west to places that are not served by any reasonable forms of transit safer.
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