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Old Posted May 20, 2010, 2:33 AM
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Originally Posted by Richard Eade View Post

The City could widen the 174 to 10-lanes in each direction, but the MTO is only allowing two lanes to enter the 417. ‘The Split’ will forever-more be a bottle-neck from the east. This is the MTO plan – basically throttle the flow from the OR174 so that the 417 only needs 4 west-bound lanes.
And yet the MTO rebuilt the 417 to Kanata with 4 lanes in each direction (plus bus lanes) in addition to the traffic from the 416.

I can see why east-end motorheads might have some reason to feel slighted.
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