6 lane roads in London are pretty rare, but more will be coming. Right now Wellington from Baseline to Wellington is the only one in London. Wellington is set to be widened further south to 6 lanes. It's fairly easy since the west side of the road is unoccupied. Next year to Southdale, 2016 to Bradley & 2018 to 401. Even the 6 lane set up might be shot lived if BRT comes.
Oxford from Richmond to Wonderland is potentially set to be 6 lanes, but again it would be for BRT, not just for traffic.
Wonderland from 402 to Southdale is set to be 6 lanes and the city is currently going an EA. Wonderland does has the ROW to be 6 laned, to south of the Thames.
While Highbury does have a good argument to be 6 lanes, there's no plans in the next 20 years, other than Oxford to Dundas to support BRT. It's very costly either way, lots of rail overpasses to widen and full homes to expropriate. Nothing the city will move heaven and earth to do..
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And sorry I was wrong about the time to make VMP a freeway, I looked back at the
VMP Thread it's actually
2073. It was 62 years back in 2011 until it would be finally a freeway, which is what I got confused with.
Basically the timeline is soo long because of the cost (~$250 million in 2011 dollars) so the city because they don't have the money to do it in one shot by itself. The city is "
committed" to making VMP a freeway though, and would build an interchange every decade or so, until it's finally a a full freeway. Still a lot of work to VMP is remaining, needs to be widened to 4 lanes to Huron, then a new roadway going north-west to link with Clarke Rd. as well an overpass is needed @ VMP & GEXR, and several non-interchanges and closed road diversions will need to be made. Makes widening Highbury not seem that bad in comparison
So unless Queen's Park decides to be generous on highway projects, or hits an oil patch Alberta style, 2073 remains the plan...
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Originally Posted by tyeman200
The reality of this, Is that I can see them having to eventually do this in the future.
I like that idea, making that intersection similar to the one on Wellington/Commissioners. Ohhh, I can hear the locals bitching about it now...
2062? This may sound like a stupid question, but does anyone know why it's going to take 50+ years for them to turn that road into a freeway? That's just insane to me!
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Originally Posted by HillStreetBlues
This is the first I’ve read “2062.” Cripes. I agree completely with you that Highbury should have been given that full expressway treatment (or as close to it as possible), rather than widening Airport. As you say, it was already halfway there. Now we have a freeway Highbury halfway up, and then way to the east (too far to be of much utility until a few more years of sprawl), half of a freeway all the way up.
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