Tips/Techniques Urban and traffic planning

[TorontoBuilder]

The way I see it...
If $hit ever hits the fan, all those "stupid" farmers will be well prepared well fed and armed. More than likely half the "smart" population in Toronto will wipe each other out fitting over the last litre of milk in the superstore.

meanwhile the people who buy canned water will survive to inherit the earth...

where they get to roam the roads daily scouting for expired canned goods they can crack open with a rock to release sweet life sustaining nutrients. An monotonous existence until the day the radiation levels get high enough to turn their innards into a runny liquid that they'll clench their butts tightly to retain as long as possible

sounds fun.

I guarantee no one will want to survive when the $hit does hit the fan.

There are probably more urbanite preppers who have whole house back up power and supplies than rural ones. For the urbanites however it's more an entitlement thing than for rural residents whose infrastructure and support is less robust. No urbanite had to slaughter a dairy herd because they couldn't milk them

ps I figure we have less than 4 years before the $hit hits the fan aka nuclear holocaust. Have your end of life plans ready...

 

[Doggggboy]

ps I figure we have less than 4 years before the $hit hits the fan aka nuclear holocaust. Have your end of life plans ready...

"The good thing about a postal strike is it temporarily interrupts postal employee thefts of mail"

Sounds like somebody skipped their morning coffee

 

[MrWhoopee]

ps I figure we have less than 4 years before the $hit hits the fan aka nuclear holocaust. Have your end of life plans ready...

I thought the exact same thing,
the year was 1970.

 

[TorontoBuilder]

Sounds like somebody skipped their morning coffee

I spent around 6 hours on the 401 yesterday, so....

 

[Doggggboy]

I spent around 6 hours on the 401 yesterday, so....

I have never had the pleasure.
That may explain why I am such a beacon of joy.

 

[Dan Dubeau]

I have never had the pleasure.
That may explain why I am such a beacon of joy.

You can Start in Toronto, drive for 2 hours on the 401 and STILL be in Toronto.....

Consider yourself lucky.

 

[TorontoBuilder]

You can Start in Toronto, drive for 2 hours on the 401 and STILL be in Toronto.....

Consider yourself lucky.

Fact, I have not been able to drive from my house to the other side of Toronto in under 2 hours in 5 years at least.

The only exception is when I take the 407 toll road north of Toronto which is only ever at about 15% capacity. Province needs to buy it back and remove the toll and encourage every possible truck to take it and not the 401

 

[combustable herbage]

You can Start in Toronto, drive for 2 hours on the 401 and STILL be in Toronto.....

Consider yourself lucky.

Try taking the 33 into Regina on a Sunday morning hungover and/or drunk.. give you a new perspective on traffic.

 

[Greywynd]

You can Start in Toronto, drive for 2 hours on the 401 and STILL be in Toronto.....

Consider yourself lucky.

Or start downtown, and two hours later REACH the 401.

 

[Greywynd]

Try taking the 33 into Regina on a Sunday morning hungover and/or drunk.. give you a new perspective on traffic.

Having spent years in Ontario, and now 7-8 years in the west, there is nothing in the prairies that compares traffic wise to the GTA. Heck even Ottawa is worse than the prairie cities.

 

[Doggggboy]

Try taking the 33 into Regina on a Sunday morning hungover and/or drunk.. give you a new perspective on traffic.

"The straightest highway in Saskatchewan is Highway 33, which is 139 kilometers (86 miles) long and runs southeast towards Stoughton. It's the longest straight road in Canada and the 12th longest in the world. Some say the highway is so flat that it's part of an experiment to prove the Earth is round."
This is a bit of a lie as there is a slight curve near Richardson and another at Lajord but it is definitely a tie your seatbelt to the steering wheel and have a nap kinda road.

 

[TorontoBuilder]

"The straightest highway in Saskatchewan is Highway 33, which is 139 kilometers (86 miles) long and runs southeast towards Stoughton. It's the longest straight road in Canada and the 12th longest in the world. Some say the highway is so flat that it's part of an experiment to prove the Earth is round."
This is a bit of a lie as there is a slight curve near Richardson and another at Lajord but it is definitely a tie your seatbelt to the steering wheel and have a nap kinda road.

Huh, that's pretty much what I did driving between Moose Jaw and Regina to university every day, except the curve at Belle Plaine its close your eyes and sleep

 

[Doggggboy]

Huh, that's pretty much what I did driving between Moose Jaw and Regina to university every day, except the curve at Belle Plaine its close your eyes and sleep

Unless it's icy and then you just get stuck on one side or the other till the sanding truck noodles by.

 

[FatherWes]

Or it’s snowing, the wind is blowing, and the whole world is white and moving sideways. You’ve got both feet planted on the brake and your brain is still telling you you’re going sideways at 50 miles an hour.

 

[6.5 Fan]

I spent 6 hours behind the wheel of my smoke spewing diesel yesterday. But i was making money and helping my daughter spend her money. Took a load of calves to SC then went to pick up 2 bred critters the girl bought. The most traffic we saw was is the Burger King parking lot at chowtime, it was packed with people parking off the pavement on the grass on the next door empty lot.

 

[historicalarms]

Im gonna spend 8 hrs a day in my diesel pick-up this weekend... driving around at 15 kph ....and loving every minute of it moose hunting with a buddy

 

[TorontoBuilder]

Or it’s snowing, the wind is blowing, and the whole world is white and moving sideways. You’ve got both feet planted on the brake and your brain is still telling you you’re going sideways at 50 miles an hour.

Oh yeah... I drove through a storm like this, leaving regina I couldn't see and started following a semi who I thought could see the road. I couldn't see crap, and I lost sight of the truck. I thought he pulled away.

I spent the next 5 hours feeling my way along the hwy, as my tires would contact the right shoulder I'd steer back onto the road... slow and steady, I couldnt even see the end of my hood.

Got the shock of my life when a guy leaped onto my hood, because he thought I'd drive by without seeing him or stopping and he'd freeze to death. It was a very long slow drive.

The next morning there were dozens of semi trailers found off the road, and I discovered what happened to the one I'd been following. In the ditch along with about a dozen other semis right on the western border of regina,

I dont even recall how many cars went off the road, but I remember seeing aerial shoot of them all thinking damn was I lucky. The RCMP closed the hwy just after I got onto the hwy

 

[Dabbler]

This April while I was driving toward Ontario, near Medicine Hat, I was passed by a transport truck with two trailers... This was on the Trans Canada, and I was on new ice/snow tires - going 60km/hr because of how slippery it was. (and I'm not overly cautious). He had to be going at least 80km/hr.

Less than an hour down the road, this same rig was about 150m off the road in a farmers field. At least he was straight.

 

[ChazzC]

This April while I was driving toward Ontario, near Medicine Hat, I was passed by a transport truck with two trailers... This was on the Trans Canada, and I was on new ice/snow tires - going 60km/hr because of how slippery it was. (and I'm not overly cautious). He had to be going at least 80km/hr.

Less than an hour down the road, this same rig was about 150m off the road in a farmers field. At least he was straight.

Seen it numerous times: people going significantly over the posted speed limits in dicey conditions and then passing the predictable result, many times with a third party paying the price.

20-odd years ago traffic on the North side of Harrisburg, PA was crawling along and all you could see was thick black smoke: a tanker had ignored the signs showing a truck rolling over at an interchange and crashed into an abutment, firing the fuel; the interchange was closed for weeks while steel was fabricated for the repairs.

 

[LenVW]

You guys should see the traffic on the 401 and 403 in SW Ontario.
From Kitchener-Cambridge to the East Side of Toronto, traffic is the busiest in North America.

I spend Tuesdays and Fridays working with vendors for an automotive & machinery company that supplies components and application assistance. Three lanes of traffic in both East & West directions usually roll at 120 kms per hour.
On the 407ETR the traffic is usually moving at 130 kms per hour.

Defensive driving and courteous lane changes keeps the traffic volume moving.