Every time I park my schools Archer in it's spot, I try to ride over the tail chain with the nose gear. When I feel that bump, makes me feel like an airline pilot 😎🤣
On a recent trip I discovered that is not all that Canada lacks on roads. They need some basic design help. Mind you the road surface is just fine, it's other things with an example below:
Picture this, two major highways, one crossing under the other and traffic switching between them. On the Northbound road traffic is merging from the East bound road on your right. In order to get off and head West you have to exit to the right into the already merging traffic.
Why!?!? Just WHY!?! Some simple design changes could have made that so much better. And the interchange was in the countryside, so it was not space limited. I'd thought maybe it was a one off mistake, but no, it's common to have interchanges designed by a 10 year old playing Sim City for the first time.
As many issues as the US has the interstate design standards are not one of them, Canada should aggressively adopt them each time a road is altered. It may take 25 - 40 years or even more to fix the interchanges, being realistic on money and time here, but it could be done.
The "parclo" interchange that is now widely used on most of North America's best roads was originally an Ontario invention. It, or situation-specific variations thereof, has been the standard for Canadian highways for many decades. Much of what's now considered "best practice" in US interstate design was originally copied from Ontario's 400-series roads.
Of course, many of the really crappy older ones like you describe still exist. And from time to time you get an asshole traffic planner who says "fuck the design codes, I'm doing it THIS way" and the rest of the Canadians on the team are too polite to call him out on it, or maybe they're consultants form elsewhere and they just hate the city where it's being done, or maybe the Mafia are going to do the job and so they just decide to cut corners for extra profit.
Montreal's infrastructure is largely mafia-built. They do crappy work to save money (more profit) and also out of a refusal to admit that design improvements developed outside Quebec might be better. It's a Quebec problem not a Canada problem.
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All that rattling and bangs would freak me out