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RE: General Road and Highway Discussion - Coke6pk - 10-18-2017
(10-16-2017, 04:17 PM)creative Wrote: I drove through 4 lights on River Road during the blackout and all were being treated as 4 way stops when I went through.
Maybe River Rd drivers had more patience. I think with the Ottawa St construction (that already delays traffic) peoples patience to "wait" at the blank lights wasn't there. I drove thru all Ottawa/River, Ottawa/Franklin and Ottawa/NB Expressway ramp intersections 3 times that afternoon, and saw near misses each time at at least one of the above intersections.
Coke
(EDIT: Yes Sammy, unfortunately tests would not catch this)
RE: General Road and Highway Discussion - embe - 10-30-2017
Southbound 85 off-ramp at Edna is open again (noticed this yesterday when I was back in town). Used it twice today and my world is now a better place. So nice after the few months of alternate routes. The concrete retaining wall doesn't look too bad either.
RE: General Road and Highway Discussion - tomh009 - 10-30-2017
What's the outlook on the completion of the King St E construction?
RE: General Road and Highway Discussion - Canard - 10-30-2017
...and while we're talking completion timelines, what about Krug? I feel like it's been under construction since Kitchener was Berlin.
RE: General Road and Highway Discussion - Square - 10-30-2017
Also Ottawa Street from River to the highway! Walked the route today, nobody in sight. Guess nobody works in drizzle anymore, lol
RE: General Road and Highway Discussion - clasher - 10-31-2017
(10-30-2017, 10:07 PM)Canard Wrote: ...and while we're talking completion timelines, what about Krug? I feel like it's been under construction since Kitchener was Berlin.
According to CoK it'll be open on the 21st of this month. I imagine the sidewalks are done and open, the last time I rode through there was the end of August... it was a weekend but there were no barriers on the sidewalks.
RE: General Road and Highway Discussion - KevinT - 10-31-2017
Not sure when exactly it happened, but all four lanes of Weber St on the overpass between Parkside and Albert were open today.
Sadly the slap-on safety fences to keep pedestrians from reaching out and touching the Ion wiring were still there, I was hoping they'd get replaced with something more attractive during this rework. :-(
RE: General Road and Highway Discussion - GtwoK - 10-31-2017
(10-30-2017, 09:51 PM)tomh009 Wrote: What's the outlook on the completion of the King St E construction?
When I drove by last week, the section closer to downtown was complete and new sidewalks were all in, and the side just off the highway had tamped ground and looked like it was ready for curbs.
RE: General Road and Highway Discussion - timio - 10-31-2017
(10-30-2017, 11:46 PM)Square Wrote: Also Ottawa Street from River to the highway! Walked the route today, nobody in sight. Guess nobody works in drizzle anymore, lol
Between last weekend and this weekend, it had looked as though the part from Franklin to River had finalized paving of the base layer, and the part from Franklin to 7 had been cleared of random gravel piles and rolled in preparation for paving. Maybe there will be more done if/when I go by next weekend.
RE: General Road and Highway Discussion - MidTowner - 10-31-2017
(10-31-2017, 11:45 AM)KevinT Wrote: Not sure when exactly it happened, but all four lanes of Weber St on the overpass between Parkside and Albert were open today.
Sadly the slap-on safety fences to keep pedestrians from reaching out and touching the Ion wiring were still there, I was hoping they'd get replaced with something more attractive during this rework. :-(
It was open for Monday morning. Finally that traffic nightmare can come to an end now that we have four lanes again!
RE: General Road and Highway Discussion - Pheidippides - 10-31-2017
Speaking of nightmares, that 1.5 day closure of Columbia/Lexington @ Marsland created some chaos.
RE: General Road and Highway Discussion - danbrotherston - 10-31-2017
(10-31-2017, 07:42 PM)Pheidippides Wrote: Speaking of nightmares, that 1.5 day closure of Columbia/Lexington @ Dearborn created some chaos.
It wouldn't have been nearly as bad as it is if drivers didn't continually drive through the road closed sign then block our driveway while turning around.
RE: General Road and Highway Discussion - Canard - 10-31-2017
The ramp from 401 WB to 8 NB (WB?? Whatever - exit 278 if you're on 401 headed west toward London) has been slightly reconfigured - annoyingly so. I think it's so crews can work on the pavement on the left lanes, so everything's been shifted a little to the right. That makes for a really awkward transition in the curve (loose radius > tight radius > loose radius).
It's not quite as bad as the little jog in 401 heading EB just after you come down the ramp off of 8 (which I'm amazed nobody has died at, yet - since I see trucks every morning drifting half a lane out of position in it), but I fully expect someone's going to roll their vehicle here in the next week.
RE: General Road and Highway Discussion - darts - 10-31-2017
going on the 401 wb under 24 the lane markers are not very visible, and pretty much just as visible is the black paint used to paint over 2 other lane markers, you can see something there that looks like lane markers. In twilight or at night I could only imagine how easy it is to distinguish which lanes are legit.
RE: General Road and Highway Discussion - Pheidippides - 10-31-2017
(10-31-2017, 08:17 PM)danbrotherston Wrote:(10-31-2017, 07:42 PM)Pheidippides Wrote: Speaking of nightmares, that 1.5 day closure of Columbia/Lexington @ Dearborn created some chaos.
It wouldn't have been nearly as bad as it is if drivers didn't continually drive through the road closed sign then block our driveway while turning around.
I mistyped. I meant Marsland not Dearborn. And yes, there was all kinds of illogical and illegal driving going on.