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Ah yes, the side of a freeway in the middle of an industrial park with poor transit access. Absolutely excellent.

great shot there of the Bloor & Dufferin development.

I mean going by that map, most of Billy Bishop is between 76.08 and 76.91 metres ASL, so between 15 and 100 centimetres of the flood level. That 15cm measure is also the "minimum" for the colour category which in itself has a variance of 37 centimetres, so the lower elevations of the airport are...

yes, up until now the 407 has been adding expansions which were "future-proofed" into the original design. Since the design originally protected for them, they were relatively inexpensive. Those have now been exhausted between the 401 and 404, meaning the corridor is at it's "ultimate" build out...

If expansion was to a, say, 18-lane core-collectors system similar to the 401 south of Pearson, you would need a minimum corridor width of about 100 metres for the highway itself not including any merge lanes or collector-express transfers. That stretch is already 12 lanes and about 60 metres...

The design never changed when Concord took over to be clear - there was simply a bad rendering posted which was wildly mis-interpreted.

given the 407's private ownership it wouldn't surprise me if we see the company undertake privately-initiated expansions at some point as capacity goes overboard. At a certain point the revenue potential from additional capacity pays for any expansion. There is definitely room for a...

define "at capacity". I would be surprised if this tunnel operates at full traffic speed on day one, correct.. but will median travel times across the 401 corridor improve over going without it? Almost certianly.

yea, they are starting a 300+ unit complex in Simcoe too. Building big in odd markets and at a time when nobody else is building.

Difference is that Pemberton hired a competent architect here and the City didn't allow them to build a borg-cube shaped massing.

Getting rid of the bulky support beams between the road and sidewalk really open the underpass up and reduce the barrier feel of the rail corridor.

looking quite close to completion overall. I'd guess a Spring 2025 completion.

Dundas interchange starts construction next year. Morriston Bypass is in a continuous holding pattern for whatever reason. There are no real plans to upgrade 6 in between the two projects though. I think making it a RIRO a la 11/35 would work fine and be a lot cheaper than a full freeway...

Yea, grass never survives in these highly urban environments. That’ll be a patch of dirt in no time.

A family friend lives in this building. They have been enjoying it from what I hear.

WestConnex:

the station is dead as Metrolinx is building a layover yard in the area.

The globe portraying the 401 as being constantly widened is so misleading. The 401 remains substantially unmodified since 1968 when the GTAs population has nearly tripled. It technically went from 4 to 14 lanes since the 1960’s. but from the 1970’s, it’s entirely unmodified. I think there needs...

Westconnex is 6 lanes (well, 6+2 emergency lanes), others are 4-6.

The finch LRT as currently built would take 3 hours to get from it's current terminus to Downtown Oshawa. That's not a practical application. The only real possibility would be some sort of GO RER service, and even then it has heavy limitations of potential.