401 fury
If there is a worse road to travel in this part of the province, I’m yet to find it. If you’re not trying to steer clear of distracted drivers and street racers, you’re dodging potholes or sitting in traffic caused by crashes or construction. There was a day that the 401 quite ably got you from Waterloo Region to Toronto. Those days are long gone. I understand that, at one time or another, road work has to be done. But it seems to me that there is just no good time to close down even a single lane on the already overcrowded highway. But all three?
I had a very enjoyable evening at the ballpark last night. A good friend of mine and I got together with our Dads to enjoy a Jays game and some good conversation. We were headed home from Toronto around 10:15 and as we approached Guelph Line around 11 PM, we came to a dead stop. No warning, no signage, just a dead stop. Two hours later we were at Highway 6 South and using the left shoulder to squeeze past construction. All three lanes of the highway had been closed without so much as a sign telling us what lay ahead. Are you kidding me? In my opinion, a detour was the least that could have been set up. Truckers were pulling off to the side of the road to call it a night while the rest of us, presumably with places to go or people to see, simply wasted two hours sitting on the highway.
If this is an example of “moving our economy forward” as some highway construction signs would have us believe, we are headed in the wrong direction in a hurry.