Comment 113306 - Raise the Hammer

Comment 113306

By mdrejhon (registered) - website | Posted August 06, 2015 at 15:30:03 in reply to Comment 113305

The ramps don't necessarily need to be redone. There are two solutions I see:

(A) Scenario A (no changes to ramps)

Keep 403 ramps unchanged.
For now, keep Main/King one-way east of Dundurn.
Force westward-driving Main Street traffic to turn right onto Dundurn. It's an easy right-turn. The main problem is the left turn onto King to reach the King on-ramp.
Purchase/lease about 5 meters of land from the Dundurn Mall to widen the 1-block of Dundurn between Main King, for the extra road capacity needed to route westward Main traffic towards the King on-ramp.
Install dual left-turning lanes on Dundurn northwards turning left onto King.
For increased traffic safety, install overhead sign at Dundurn-King intersection to tell 403 on-ramp people to wait in the rightmost left-turning lane.
This is just ONE block of ONE extra traffic lane for Dundurn, possibly temporary.

(B) Scenario B (minor changes to ramps)

A more minor-than-expected re-engineer of ramps was posted by Martin Kuplēns-Ewart on Twitter.

I prefer Scenario B, but I can tolerate Scenario A for now as a very cheap temporary interim solution.

Comment edited by mdrejhon on 2015-08-06 15:48:05

@MDRejhon on twitter. Original founder of Hamilton LRT Advocacy. Spouse of @ABureauWard3.

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