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RE: Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph - Drake - 05-29-2015 Initial work on new Kitchener-Guelph Hwy. 7 to start in June May 30, 2015 | Paige Desmond | Waterloo Region Record | Link Quote:KITCHENER — The Ministry of Transportation is moving ahead with a new Highway 7 between Guelph and Kitchener and expects some advance construction underway this summer. RE: Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph - Markster - 06-21-2015 Since it comes up a lot, here's an overview of the highway 7-85 interchange: RE: Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph - Chris - 07-06-2015 Construction has started on Wellington along the bridge. Traffic is down to one lane in each direction while they dig up the middle of the road in front of the Christie parking lot. ETA: looks like they are removing the rumble strip that runs down the middle of the street. RE: Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph - Viewfromthe42 - 07-06-2015 Just looking at that diagram, how bad an experience will it be for those traveling from Guelph who want to get off at Victoria? It looks like they'll need to hit two traffic lights from the off-ramp before getting onto Victoria. RE: Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph - jamincan - 07-06-2015 It's actually worse for people getting onto Victoria from the south-bound 85. In that case we're looking at three intersections to get onto Victoria (one is a right turn though). RE: Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph - Coke6pk - 07-06-2015 (07-06-2015, 12:19 PM)jamincan Wrote: It's actually worse for people getting onto Victoria from the south-bound 85. In that case we're looking at three intersections to get onto Victoria (one is a right turn though). Could be worse... planners could of eliminated that whole section and made access left on Wellington/Shirley, then right on connector road to get to Victoria. Coke RE: Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph - Canard - 07-06-2015 Hmm, or getting from Victoria heading Eastbound onto the 85 Southbound. I don't really relish heading North, through another intersection, and then having to pull a complete 180. It will be kind of fun to drive through this every day, though. I was in total awe at the massive stack interchanges in Texas. They know how to build 'em there, that's for sure. RE: Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph - Drake - 07-06-2015 How does one travelling Eastbound on Wellington Street get onto Eastbound Hwy 7? It looks like you bypass the spaghetti junction and head to the extreme East edge of this diagram. Is that correct? RE: Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph - Coke6pk - 07-06-2015 That's what it looks like to me. RE: Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph - KevinL - 07-06-2015 Indeed, it's also how you'd get there from any local street in the Victoria area: go up the new Bruce extension, turn right and down Shirley, then left at the on-ramp. RE: Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph - Viewfromthe42 - 07-07-2015 Is that just the most suicidally short on/off ramp, to get onto/off of the westbound hwy 7 that heads into southbound hwy 85? RE: Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph - Markster - 07-07-2015 (07-07-2015, 08:26 AM)Viewfromthe42 Wrote: Is that just the most suicidally short on/off ramp, to get onto/off of the westbound hwy 7 that heads into southbound hwy 85?No? The merge on to highway 85 southbound continues past the bottom of the image. Are you talking about a different ramp? RE: Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph - Viewfromthe42 - 07-07-2015 I'm looking at the west side, the area where the current southbound 85 offramp is, the portion going underneath the Victoria St bridge. I know we currently have the Wellington onramp and Victoria offramp feeding near each other, just wondering what that conjoined area will be like with westbound hwy 7 also feeding into it. RE: Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph - Markster - 07-07-2015 Aha, think I see what you're talking about. Westbound 7 does not have an offramp to Edna. The "suicidally short" section is not a merge zone. One can only go from westbound 7 to the southbound 85. RE: Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph - jamincan - 07-07-2015 Presumably west-bound Highway 7 drivers would get off on Wellington and then use Lancaster to get to Victoria or elsewhere downtown. |