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[maddawg5]

[quote name='GRDadof3' date='Nov 14 2006, 04:43 PM' post='614030']
It's interesting too that Toronto's suburbs just "end", with rural beyond. Not a lot of exurban development. You can really notice it here along 407 on [url="http://www.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=toronto&ie=UTF8&z=13&ll=43.558376,-79.730358&spn=0.06618,0.244446&t=h&om=1"]Google maps[/url]. And in [url="http://www.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=toronto&ie=UTF8&om=1&z=13&ll=43.687984,-79.788208&spn=0.066037,0.244446&t=h&iwloc=addr"]THIS[/url] shot too just North of the previous area. I wonder if Toronto has an urban growth boundary?

Toronto's suburban density is unbelievable, with high-rise apartments/condos dotting the skyline everywhere you look.

Stupid question: When you're coming into Toronto on 401 from Michigan, off to the East is almost a mountainous area with a large shelf/cliff of what looks like sandstone or something. Anyone know what that is?

Answers:

Toronto's urban growth boundaries are Major Mackenzie Rd and Markham By-Pass in Markham, Taunton Rd/Steeles Ave in Ajax, Whitby, and Oshawa, and Major Mackenzie Rd in Vaughan, and Mayfield Rd in Brampton.

Edited by maddawg5, 19 August 2007 - 10:51 PM.

[The Voice of Reason]

WOW!  I commute on a 10 lane Highway not counting the 2 HOV lanes or exits (I-84 east of Hartford CT).  Its not overwhelming, but It is a busy and large road.  Not so sure I would like the commute on the 401, and I grew up on Long Island where we invented the superhighway (495)

[totheskies]

Wow , that's just too huge for words!!  

I think that among Houston freeways, there is one stretch near downtown of 16 lanes in four segments, but it is very brief (0.25 mile).  US- 59 has 16 total lanes at the intersection with 610 around the Galleria.  I think the "winner for Houston is the newly constructed portion of 610 between I-10 and US 290.  17 total lanes... five main lanes on each direction, 3 feeders on one side, two feeders on the other, and two floating HOVs.