I thought it was also as I saw all kinds of material stock pile for ducking. I know for sure the section north of CP track was done as that was one area I saw the most of all. Going south I saw very little of it yearly. The gas line work has taken a lot longer to the point extra work was done that wasn't originally plan or require, Still doing work at the Queensway and to be completed in a few months.
Its completely horrendous. The other choice is Mississauga road and it is narrow south of the QEW with traffic that speeds by way above the limit. If you're travelling southbound making the transition from the exit lane to get on the highway to the through lane can be downright dangerous. Go further west and youve got the S***show of Erin Mills Parkway which is even worse. Something needs to be done.
Thank you!! What's irritating are the two golf courses that take up so much space with no pedestrian/bike bypasses, so the distance between Mississauga Rd. and Hurontario at Dundas is >5km! Mavis (or Glengarry) should've been another road that crosses the Credit River. As you said, all the options are horrendous. I have biked to Port Credit on Mississauga Road exactly ONE time, because it is insane. I don't understand how so many bikers are ok with it. When I drive through the area, I refuse to pass a biker unless the opposing lane is empty and I'm able to cross the yellow line to give the biker space. Many other drivers are not willing to do that and will pass dangerously close!
Any ramp off an expressway will have the same "problem". Instead of looking at fixing the road design, they blame the cyclist.
What a disaster the multi use trail on Hurontario south of South Service road is now. It's like five feet from the road on the east side. If you're riding southbound in the morning you're literally in the shadows and southbound cars waiting to turn left into driveways just don't see you. Or, with all the hedges and landscaping at some business, cars don't see you when they pull out because of the obstruction. I used to bike that section on my way to work quite frequently about a decade ago. On my way from Etobicoke, it wasn't the transport traffic on the West Mall (south of Dundas) or sometimes having to run the light at Sherway Drive and Dixie because the stupid traffic light wouldn't change if there was no car in the lane, or trying to bike over the QEW on that weird stretch of Dixie that worried me. It was that stupid multiuse trail. While I was spared as a cyclist, a coworker clipped a cyclist with his car when he was pulling out of the company driveway. Fortunately the cyclist was not badly hurt.
And this one isn't as bad as Mississauga road. Mississauga road is an underpass so you're in darkness making it even more difficult for traffic to see you.
Highway ramps are the most dangerous place for pedestrians and cyclists.
Sometimes, bikers don't like the fact that the trails are out of the way, or have a destination on the road. I take parallel, less-busy roads whenever I can - but many people don't. What if there is no alternate route? I would not generalize, because people have unexpected circumstances (many a pothole that a car can drive over, a bike cannot). Do we expect cars to take an inconvenient route to protect bikers because "there's a perfectly good road right next to it"?