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New Highway 6 interchange between Maltby Road and Wellington Road 34
New Highway 6 interchange between Maltby Road and Wellington Road 34
Shovels in the Ground to Widen Highway 3
Ontario investing $50 million to build a new Banwell interchange for Windsor
Yes both of those are new. City of Windsor recently announced that they were going to fund and start work on grading the ramps for the Banwell/E.C. Row interchange (similar to the staged approach we saw for the Tremaine/HWY 401 interchange in Milton), looks like this is the province chipping in the rest.Ontario Newsroom
news.ontario.ca
Highway 3 isn't new, but funding for the Banwell Road interchange on the E.C. Row and the Lauzon Parkway interchange are both new as far as I know.
Ontario Newsroom
news.ontario.ca
Highway 3 isn't new, but funding for the Banwell Road interchange on the E.C. Row and the Lauzon Parkway interchange are both new as far as I know.
I expect a few of these announcements in the next few weeks in the run up to the provincial budget.
I feel quite strongly that this section should either remain a local road, where applicable, or even be removed (re-aligned) entirely. Its very close to the water and really cuts off Lake access in some measure, most of the properties on the south (lake side) are subject to erosion issues and may have to be removed anyway. Better to rebuild the road further north, particularly east of Wheatley and line it up to #6 or #8 east of Merlin.
There are a whole ton of little cottages and houses along the lake there though that need access so I don’t see its removal as being particularly useful.
The website does says it should open in June 2024.Anyone know what's going on with the 404 widening north of H7? I swear its been under construction for 6-7 years now and it feels like work has completely stalled for the last 2. The section north of Major Mack has basically looked done since summer 2019 and it is still not open due to the expansion south of MM still being worked on.
Some other wishlist roads projects for this year:
I have some other ones I would love but think are generally less likely..
- Thorold Stone Rd interchange rebuild - probably the most substandard interchange left on the 400-series network and it creates an awkward 4-lane section of the QEW between the 420 and 405
The Skyway is getting widened to 8-lanes as a part of it's rehabilitation in the next few years. It's a questionable project in terms of priority to me as it hardly ever gets really congested, but it is what it is.
MTO some times confuses me as they have quite a lot of low-hanging projects which could make a big difference (QEW widening for example - no structural changes needed west of Grimsby and the platform is already widened in many places.. minimal structural widening required east of Grimsby as well.. widening would be cheap and address a pretty badly congested stretch, but it's not even close to being on the priority list), but then go ahead and spend a billion dollars to twin a bridge that doesn't really need any new capacity.
Any plans to reconfigure 401 through Belleville? That to me seems much more substandard than Thorold Stone.I have some other ones I would love but think are generally less likely..
- 11 interchange reconfiguration in Gravenhurst
- Start working towards 4-laning 7/8 to Stratford - perhaps just the Nafziger Rd interchange for now
- Cookstown Bypass on 89 (this one will probably happen if Honda ends up doing the massive EV plant they are talking about in Alliston)
- 4-lane Highway 5 from Waterdown to the 5/8 split
- Thorold Stone Rd interchange rebuild - probably the most substandard interchange left on the 400-series network and it creates an awkward 4-lane section of the QEW between the 420 and 405