Highway 401 Widening - Highway 8 to Townline Road

[jeffster]

LOL, I love how it’s just a year.

Why do projects like this get to have such wild and massive unspecific timelines and nobody cares, and people lose their shit when ion slips a few months?

I am guessing this is because you can use the 401 vs you can't use the Ion. If they had closed the 401 down, well, that would be a different story, and people would be losing their shit if the opening was anything more than 10 minutes late.

I do recall people losing their shit over the Margaret bridge people delayed; and that only inconvenienced people, plus not helpful to the Chinese restaurant. Same applies to the work being done in uptown Waterloo, which was delayed, lots of people losing their shit over the delays happening with the projects happening (not just the Ion).

With this 401 thing, they haven't reduced lanes on the highway itself, so for the majority of people, nothing really to be upset about.