Highway 401 Widening - Highway 8 to Townline Road

[Coke6pk]

Drive westbound this evening, and traffic has moved to the newly paved bits between Townline and Franklin, where it then switches to the old lanes, while the Hespeler exit continues on the new lanes from the Franklin St. bridge.

I feel like they're making much quicker work of this widening than the previous section. Though I suppose having franklin bridge already widened and no bridges to construct probably expedites the process significantly

For those in this forum that are commuters, its very similar to the progress down Milton way.  The Credit Valley expansion of the 401 took 10 years to cover a not huge section, and was traffic nightmare, whereas the current Milton -> Credit Valley expansion is flying along, and traffic delays are manageable.

I wonder if they have improved the tender process to have bigger/multiple crews to make the work happen quicker.

Coke