... The plan is for the Sudbury southwest bypass to be twinned/fully freewayized after the conversion of highway 69 into highway 400 is complete, however, I...
... Fort ... I am sure the local businesses there are going to raise a big stink over this one... They are more concerned about their wallets than the safety...
I was doing some channel surfing and I noticed on CNN that the bridge on I-35W that crosses the Mississippi River in Minnaepolis, MN collapsed during the...
... CNN was reporting during Larry King Live that there were 3 confirmed fatalities. One apparently was a drowning in the Mississippi. From the footage, it...
... bridge on ... collapsed ... each ... Yeah, making a BBQ but having my eyes glued to CCN at the same time. A massive structural collapse without any known...
... I spoke with a customer from St. Paul today, and we started discussing the bridge collapse. I told him about the overpass collapse in Quebec and told him...
... bridge on ... collapsed ... each ... Woah man! I remember driving on that bridge less than a year ago! I recall that it had a very high deck and an exposed...
... In the online news articles I read over the past year or so, there has appeared to be little contention over the inevitability of bypasses around these...
... Well just a second here... you're suggesting that a plan should just roll ahead without any careful thought of the economic and environmental impact the...
... elsewhere? ... Those are strips installed above the asphalt, they're fairly common, on highways with heavy traffic, as paint would simply wear off in a...
-Some businesses can be moved onto service roads similar to Gasoline Alley near Red Deer. Other solutions include service lanes like the Esso Station or...
... I'm not sure if it's quite the same thing but on TCH-17 from the end of TCH-417 to the lights at Baskin Drive (less than 1km) at Arnprior, the line down...
... The bridge portion went from 8 driving lanes total to 4, had it been down to 1 lane in each direction that would have been a serious mess. But yes, this...
... But that's exactly what we want to avoid here. Franchising companies move a mile out of town next to the proposed alignment and nobody even has a look at...
Those raised dots ("raised pavement markers" is the technical term) can't handle much in the way of snow removal, especially if rubber-tipped blades are not...
... That seems to be a west-coast thing. I've only seen those reflectors in Washington, Oregon, and California. California's reflectors were put on roads back...
The typical pattern here is that the businesses oppose the bypass until congestion gets so severe that no one wants to stop there anymore, and then you can't...
... until congestion gets so severe that no one wants to stop there anymore, and then you can't build it soon enough. But typically, a community with over...
Oregon is trying to route "bypasses" through towns instead of around them, but the right-of-way costs a lot more, and so does mitigation, especially for noise...
Nanton has two attractions that are worth stopping for... The Lancaster Air Museum and the Garden Railway. With a bypass built people will still go to these...
... Exactly. Most of the traffic through towns does not stop there, or would get off at the interchange to stop. The BBS's approaching the towns should also...
I note that the East Freeway is under construction east of Calgary and an interchange is being built there where both 16th Avenue and East Freeway are free...
If I remember correctly about what I saw on the plans for the East Freeway, 68 Avenue will have a half-interchange, a half-diamond with 2 ramps coming to and...