PEACE BRIDGE Removing tollbooths will delight neighbors By PHIL FAIRBANKS News Staff Reporter 2/1/2004 Peace Bridge tollbooths are moving across the border to...
... able ... True, but I've never seen an acceleration lane that small myself, not even here in Quebec. We have some that just ram you into the highway without...
I always considered the 20 - 13 merge to be a zipper - one car from left, one from right. In any case it's insane to have 6 lanes plus several on-ramps merge ...
... I just came across an article whereby an engineer has estimated the cost of such a fixed link at around $4.2 billion, almost triple the federal estimate of...
... The stretch of highway, where this unfortunate incident took place, just north of Squamish was constructed as a by-pass of Brackendale roughly in the...
Okay, the 40 West (Metropolitain) at the merge with the 15 north is insane! I mean, I couldn't see where the hell the lanes were supposed to be! The sun was...
... eastern ... right ... One of them is the Blue Heron Route, which I remember seeing signs for on Route 20 north of Kensington on the way into CJ01. I'd ...
... Even longer accel lanes which do immediate merges are a hazard, since they often obscure visibility until shortly before the merge. But ignoring them,...
... (i.e. ... and ... I was on a few of the Secondary Routes on my travels in that province in 2001, and I remember some of them being in rather good ...
... The article is a complete red herring. The engineer the article sources for the $4.2B figure (Tom Kierans) is the same guy who came up with the original...
I've been travelling throughout the weekend, and I have this report to pass along. CAMBRIDGE - I am strongly suspecting that Highway 24 has been fully restored...
... Is there a good reason why there isn't a barrier separating the lanes in this relatively high-standard section? The accident was touched off by a...
... I understand that road conditions were bare and clear on early Saturday morning when the unfortunate incident occurred. I guess a side-swipe can happen on...
... The accident photos show it occurred on a 4-lane stretch. I'm wondering why that particular stretch isn't divided. Not that it's unique. MinorRoadsKill...
... Gee, I did hear through the grapevine that some of that *double- exposure*, knock-off film was circulating within the photographic community.<grin> The...
What level of quality do the Labrador / NE Quebec roads (PQ-138, PQ- 389, NL-500, NL-510) have? If they are paved, can their alignments support consistent...
... PQ138 is a fairly good 2-lane primary highway to Sept-Iles, posted at 90km/h (traffic travels faster). East of Sept-Iles, it's more like a secondary...
Hiho, ... It's funny that you mention that one - I just used that on Friday, and as I merged I thought to myself "wow, a Quebec-style merge"! :) Cu, Andrew...
... Three days after the first unfortunate incident - another cross-over fatality between a senior and an 18-wheeler on a 2-lane segment two km north of...
Yet that doesn’t seem to stop Anglophones from using AltaVista and FreeTranslation to translate actual documents into French! I recently shot off an e-mail...
Hiho, ... That's easy: Translate a page, select the text, and put that text back into the translator in "reverse". The "english" you get back makes it clear...
I wondered by curiosity why the Deerfoot trail Extension wasn't illuminated with high-mast light towers (I know a gap of A-20 between PQ132 and Ste-Julie had...
... though ... These roads are safer but on Notre-Dame, there are no businesses or houses. On Crémazie, there are (crappy)appartments, businesses (mainly...