The Metropolis of Thunder Bay is proposing some revisions to a brand new route that may hyperlink Dawson Highway and Golf Hyperlinks Highway.
THUNDER BAY — The Metropolis of Thunder Bay desires to be prepared for every time the Ontario authorities proceeds with making the Thunder Bay Expressway a four-lane divided route with interchanges.
This implies it should replace the decades-old plan for the Northwest Arterial Highway, a proposed four-kilometre-long connection between Dawson Highway and Golf Hyperlinks Highway.
After a transportation research practically 40 years in the past recognized the longer term want for the brand new hyperlink, town accomplished an environmental evaluation research alongside a route from Dawson Highway close to Paquette Highway, over the McIntyre River, and intersecting with the Thunder Bay Expressway earlier than persevering with to Golf Hyperlinks Highway.
Earlier this 12 months, it commenced an replace on the environmental evaluation.
This week, it is holding a public open home to clarify the adjustments which can be being proposed from the final revision in 1992.
“There’s some tweaks to basic intersection, area and alignment configurations from ’92 to at present’s requirements,” stated Matthew Miedema, town’s director of engineering and operations.
“When it comes to the place the arterial ties into Pioneer Drive and Dawson Highway, we need to be certain that now we have the suitable area in between managed intersections down the highway, in order that customary has modified…We’re additionally taking a look at incorporating some lively transportation routes and paths alongside the hall.”
Miedema additionally defined that, earlier than the flip of the century, the northwest part of town “was nonetheless form of a rural setting,” however “since then, it has undoubtedly taken a extra of an city look and feel to it.”
He stated that whereas a rural atmosphere might have seen open ditches, that space now requires curbs on the highway, sidewalks, and presumably a multi-use path.
The plan can even have to replicate some environmental requirements which have modified for the reason that Nineteen Nineties.
It is nonetheless unsure when the revised scheme for the Northwest Arterial will really be carried out.
“The actual driver behind that is actually the Ministry of Transportation’s future plans on Freeway 11/17,” Miedema famous. “These tasks actually need to stroll hand-in-hand, so to talk, as if one goes forward, the opposite one’s received to be able to go.”
The ministry’s present long-range plan for reworking the Expressway right into a divided freeway with interchanges would additionally block entry to the freeway from John Road Highway and from Oliver Highway, and substitute the intersections in these places with flyovers.
“We, as a metropolis, wanted some form of intermediate level to attach our residents, emergency autos, all kinds of causes, to the freeway…We want an instantaneous contact level. In order that’s the place the arterial is that key hyperlink, once we lose John and Oliver,” Miedema stated.
Members of the general public can discover out extra concerning the standing of the Northwest Arterial at an open home on Dec. 4 from 5 p.m. to eight p.m. on the 55 Plus Centre on River Road.
Town can be conducting a public survey on-line at thunderbay.ca/getinvolved.
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