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To avoid traffic I drive the between highway and Leslie St. Really pretty at night the headlights make it light up as it has 20 lanes. Are government has spent billions on it. It less busy in London Ontario with 3 lanes. Much bigger cities such as New York, Chicago and Los Angeles do not cram as many cars on any single highway because they have more public transit as well as more higher-speed roadways.

Fuck us, right? And the contract is for 99 years. What the fuck were they thinking? A lack of materials delayed completion of the bridge over the Don River, but there had been bigger problems the year before. The new highway bridge over the Humber River was washed out by Hurricane Hazel and had to be extensively rebuilt. Archival photos show tonnes of river silt over the surface of the road and deep cracks in the structure.

No sooner had the ribbon been cut were plans in the works for expansion. Four lanes became six, then 12, before the familiar express and collector configuration was added in an attempt to make the road flow better. Unfortunately for drivers, the never became a motorists paradise.

An editorial in The Globe and Mail said the project had been "bungled. The full highway was completed from Windsor to the Quebec border in It's been growing in size ever since.

Through Toronto, the express and collector layout swells the road to in excess of 12 lanes, making the road one of the largest and busiest in the world. Archives of Ontario. Additional photos: Globe and Mail, Jan. Join the conversation Load comments. This Toronto company is breaking barriers for women in construction. There is a tiny guinea pig oasis in the middle of Toronto.

Ikea won't be selling Christmas trees in Toronto this year due to shortage. Truck driver without a licence spills concrete all over Ontario highway. Near Pearson International Airport, the road is 18 lanes wide. If you count the additional four lanes of connecting ramps, it's wider than the Katy Freeway; if you count through lanes only, the two are tied.

Until someone adds a nineteenth lane, with national highway pride on the line. Civil engineers have known for decades that the fundamental rule of road congestion is this: adding capacity doesn't reduce traffic in the long term. This is the economic phenomenon called "induced demand:" providing more of a free resource in this case, freeway lanes will inspire more demand to fill it.

After the widening of the Katy Freeway, morning and evening travel times along the route actually increased by 30 and 55 percent, respectively.

The days of super-wide highway projects like Houston's might be numbered. Explore the world's oddities every week with Ken Jennings , and check out his book Maphead for more geography trivia.

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