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23322
I spotted this French article about a push of the Quebec government to use more wood structures (wooden structures?) ...
Stephane Dumas
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Feb 3, 2008
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23323
... to use more wood structures (wooden structures?) - "wooden" would be more correct according to traditional English grammar, but "wood structures" also gets...
captainbeowulf
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Feb 3, 2008
11:34 pm
23324
... government ... Wooden bridges were actually a common sight on British Columbia highways up until the 1980's. Many (but not all) shorter length bridges...
pkeenleyside
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Feb 4, 2008
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23325
... per?? ... million ... Perhaps the newspaper simply isn't reporting the whole story. IIRC, freewayizing AB-63 north of the Athabasca River Crossing...
darrobyou
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Feb 4, 2008
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23326
... to use more wood structures (wooden structures?) ... 075900.html ... the faisability to rebuild in wood structures, some bridges who need to be...
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Feb 4, 2008
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23327
Didn't the TCH have a one way wooden bridge which is west of the Vedder Canal? The TCH widened and there was a small farm and house in the median as well as a...
sammycaseyandjoey
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Feb 4, 2008
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23328
Courtesy of Averill hect. neat stuff: http://www.onthighways.com/Averill/...
Scott Steeves
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Feb 4, 2008
9:31 pm
23329
Hey guys, Just wanted to let you all know that with the recent completion (as a Parclo A2 with no traffic lights! Bah! Should be an A4 with lights) of the...
Snickerdo
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Feb 4, 2008
11:48 pm
23330
... Most projects that involve rebuilding the roadway significantly see a reduction to 80km/h. The 401 between Cobourg and Port Hope was, for instance,...
captainbeowulf
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Feb 5, 2008
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23331
Two questions, as posted on MTR, but you guys would be the specialists: 1: http://www.alpsroads.net/roads/qc/misc/55n.jpg - Why were the exit numbers changed...
Steve
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Feb 5, 2008
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23332
... Well, I know with the 401 widening near the 427 megachange and in the Yonge Street area you have barriers right up against the highway, yet the limit is...
Snickerdo
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Feb 5, 2008
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... 1)I don't know the reason for the change of the exit numbers on A-55 2) the exit numbers who was before was the A-55 ones and if my memory don't trick me,...
sailordumas
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... Thank you for #2 - it was one of my two suspicions but I wanted it confirmed. (It could also have been blank.)...
Steve
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Feb 5, 2008
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23335
Hiho, ... My guess would be metrification. Cu, Andrew...
Andrew Gurudata
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Feb 5, 2008
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23336
Speaking of speed limits, the mto is seemingly interested in extending the 403's 90 limit through Hamilton, westerly to just west of Aberdeen Street. The new...
Scott Steeves
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Feb 5, 2008
7:46 pm
23337
... Lowering the speed limit requires a mere Order in Council. They may be waiting for other conditions before lowering the speed limit. Is the Conestoga...
Snickerdo
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Feb 5, 2008
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23338
... Can't be. The number looks like it was changed only from 83 to 85....
Steve
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Feb 6, 2008
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... Hmmm - widening in Cobourg-Port Hope had black-on white temporary signs saying 80, with the 100s removed or covered up completely. Funny how sometimes the...
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Feb 6, 2008
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... In St. Catharines, the 100KM/h signs have been removed and replaced with the 80KM/h signs, and they've also installed additional 80KM/h signs where there...
Snickerdo
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23341
... with ... when ... doubled. ... Not every elsewhere. I believe it's Pennsylvania in which work zone laws are only enforceable when the zone is active....
Steve
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23342
... Right, but Ontario and other jurisdictions like Penna would be in the minority when it comes to this. Other states, like New York, apply the doubled fines...
Snickerdo
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23343
... a ... 130km/h) ... crawling ... everywhere, ... rural ... I always thought that Ontario was weird how every freeway seems to be posted at 100 km/h, but...
Daryl
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... Yep. It was a wood bridge with sealcoat asphalt on top. You're thinkin' of the old alignment - the original Fraser Highway which follows the dike near the...
pkeenleyside
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Feb 6, 2008
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23345
... 8 foot lanes until the 1960s!?...
Scott Steeves
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Feb 6, 2008
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23346
... A lot of highways were like this. Look at the still paved parts of the old highway 41 alignment around Bon Echo. Those lanes aren't very wide, neither...
captainbeowulf
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Feb 7, 2008
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23347
... 10 foot lanes were out of date in Ontario as of 1932....
Scott Steeves
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Feb 7, 2008
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23348
... Maybe for new construction, but what about existing highways? You can't tell me that they bypassed and upgraded every highway with ten foot lanes by 1932....
Snickerdo
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23349
... land ... the ... old ... but ... I agree with you about enjoying the old road througout the Valley. Paul, while on the topic of the Sumas Prairie (between...
Daryl
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Feb 7, 2008
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... I'm almost thinking this might be a difference at the MTO regional office level. Most of the Black-on-orange ones seem to be in Central Region (or as I...
Chris Beach
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Feb 7, 2008
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Thanks for the photos, which also included some Quebec ones. I've got a question Stephane might be able to answer - why are there signs that say "THAW" along...
Jay LaRochelle
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