Wonderful Waterloo Archive

This site is maintained by Sam Nabi as a record of the vibrant Wonderful Waterloo community, which was taken offline in 2014. This site is a partial archive, containing some posts from 2009-2013. To read more about the recovery effort and access the data in a machine-readable format, check out the GitHub page.

Highway 7

Post #295
01-03-2010 02:34 AM
UrbanWaterloo

Senior Moderator
Date Dec 2009 Location Kitchener-Waterloo Posts 454
Canadian Monopoly - Vote for Kitchener & Nominate our Other Municipalities
Highway 7
Kitchener to Guelph
Post #7269
05-20-2010 08:29 PM
TripleQ

Member
Date Jan 2010 Posts 40
Quote Originally Posted by Waterlooer View Post
Thanks for finding that! I think it's unnecessary for it to be that big still.
What's that in your avatar?
Post #7270
05-20-2010 08:53 PM
Waterlooer

Member
Date Apr 2010 Location K/W Posts 58
Quote Originally Posted by TripleQ View Post
What's that in your avatar?
Oh haha! I like the way it looks!
Post #7292
05-21-2010 12:20 AM
jtouch

Junior Member
Date May 2010 Posts 1
TripleQ beat me to it, but here is a more detailed clipping from the EA pdf from the website that's since gone offline.




I agree that it's a bit overkill, but whoever mention there was already a "high capacity" interchange here is overlooking the fact that it only has "high" capacity to go westbound on Wellington. It's actually quite a poor interchange going eastbound, as it exists today with a tight NB->EB ramp and a left turn from SB->EB.

Aside from cost, I think the biggest drawback of this plan will be Victoria/Frederick st. accessibility. It will be a bit of a hike (+ multiple lights) to get from Frederick on to the expressway, especially to southbound KWE.

Not to worry. It'll be 10 years before ground is broken, if ever... I've never heard of any actual funding for this project.
Post #7301
05-21-2010 08:15 AM
Spokes

Senior Moderator
Date Dec 2009 Location Kitchener Posts 2,049
Thanks for posting that. And welcome to Wonderful Waterloo!
Post #7352
05-21-2010 05:42 PM
Duke-of-Waterloo

Construction Moderator
Date Jan 2010 Location Waterloo, ON Posts 319
Quote Originally Posted by jtouch View Post
TripleQ beat me to it, but here is a more detailed clipping from the EA pdf from the website that's since gone offline.

If the website is offline, how did you find this? Was it saved on your computer? The EA website was running less than a year ago, but I don't think I saved the document (ESR) to my computer. Thanks for posting it by the way for those like me who were looking for it once again.
Post #7355
05-21-2010 07:28 PM
isUsername

Junior Member
Date Apr 2010 Location Kitchener, Ontario Posts 2
Here's an overlay I made to give it some more context: