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Upgrading highways to a certain design speed is harder than building a new highway, you really can't mess with grades too much, then there is upgrading horizontal curves, which likely would require land. MTO's own design manual states that 130km/h design speed for design for horizontal...

Take a look at this - http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/phmpmbp/Reference%20Materials/EstCon-ProductionRates-2011.pdf This is how us in the work/bridge/culvert world estimate construction timing/days. But the real answer is, this stuff just takes time. There is no overnight fix for alot of it. To...

Closer to 15million actually. http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/91-215-x/91-215-x2014000-eng.pdf Table 2.1-1

It's easy for people who are not in the engineering/construction world to criticize timing, cost, etc. Comparing projects is build x years ago in x country is useless. As they have different safety laws, weather, etc. Building in the middle of nowhere where you know there will be no...

Drainage & some culvert sizing changes still going on.

Incorrect, people in my company, including myself, are still working on certain aspects of the design for phase one. I haven't been involved in a few weeks but many co-workers are still working on it as of today.

What happens if the design isn't complete by then? :)

2 people. Eastbound ones include green license plates haven't seen that for Westbound yet. They were hoping to have the eastbound lanes open this week. It looks like they are close.

I would agree with this staging, as nfitz pointed out it's much more of a timeline issue, when the Minister of Transportation said in 2007 they wanted to expand the 401 to 6 lanes all the way by 2012? They were clearly dreaming. The widening that's going on in Kingston right now is a 5 year...

You can believe what you want I guess. I've worked on Bridge design projects beyond the 416 towards Montreal, and will be working on culverts between Gan & Brockville that MTO has specifically stated want to be designed to accommodate future widening.

You want a better source than what the Transportation minister said at the time? Yikes. Yes MTO has plans to widen the Highway to 6 lanes all the way. However, there is a shit ton of prelim work. Countless bridges, culverts, property.. etc. There is currently alot of major Highway...

It would likely cost less than your proposed elevated highway. Hence why I brought it up

d) buy land Hence why there is never any appetite for major reconfiguration, anywhere.

This doesn't tell you the full story. Look at the street view historical view. (There is 4 other dates) The newest one is from October 2012, for all we know it's Thanksgiving weekend. The other ones are dead. I drive this stretch enough to know that while twining is needed to Renfrew...

Good comment....6 years later.....

I drove by the stretch from arnprior to renfrew Friday. They've already started the clearing & grubbing.

Soccer has been "growing" in Canada for 30 years as people claim. And where is it? A highly anticipated opening draws half the TV audience as a Tuesday night Argo game, and the Men's team bottomed out at it's lowest ranking ever. The Woman's team is our really our only source of pride when it...

Fans were sick of seeing the second coming of the expo's. They had to do something to attract people to the stadium. First off, this isn't what I said. I said north american football. Secondly, ratings wise, doesn't show it to be a huge success. Which is why CBC cancelled it in the...

It's OLG that's the issue. There are already hundreds of thousands people who bet on NFL games via this method. Where are the profits of the team coming from? NFL teams break even right now from the television contract. As I said, a Canadian broadcaster would have to match on a per team...

Don't quote me on this, but it's more likely MTO contracted out the design work. There is major differences between how they would do it too. If the Gardiner was done in precast sections originally, we likely wouldn't be having the conversation on remove/replace/maintain. They...