Thank you.

Merci pour le commentaire. I should have another video online next week as well.

@@AsphaltPlanet1 Can't wait for it 😃! And btw, I saw some videos of the A-50 before, but it was good to have it's entire length for once

Lol, thank you

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Thank you.

The 417 is the preferred highway between Montreal and Ottawa. The central section of A-50 (between Gatineau and Lachute) only opened within the last ten years or so. I think they may have underestimated just how much traffic would end up using it when they first constructed it.

When I go to Gatineau from Montreal I always opt for the 417, even if I lose time. A50 is dangerous

It's being upgraded as we speak in some parts. Can't come soon enough.

I am generally in favour of cable median barriers if they are used properly. In terms of A-50 I think it’s installation proved to be a mistake. I don’t know if you noticed or not, but the section that received cable median barrier also received continuous illumination as part of that work. And the illumination is permanently installed, not with wooden poles and overhead wires or anything, so I doubt they went to that much trouble only to turn it out and immediately rip it out. I believe the cable median barrier gets hit fairly frequently and from what I understand they have to close the highway in order to retention it. Seems like a real maintenance headache. In Ontario our first cable median barrier was installed on the 401 between Tilbury and London. One of the very first trucks to hit it punched through, which of course made the media with the idea that cable median barriers weren’t effective at all. Since then it’s been hit dozens of times and I think the catch rate is something like 94%. So not as effective as a concrete barrier, but at a fraction of f the cost, pretty good bang for the Buck in my opinion.

A lot of people have died on that stretch. This was more a reactionary move by the province to have it installed. That section is currently being twinned now.

There are two railway crossings along A-50 between Mirabel and Detroit. It's the same train line, and its not very busy. I suspect when that section of A-50 was first constructed in the 70s, the government of the day expected that railway to be abandoned, and didn't want to build a bridge for a railway that was going to be ripped up. If and when A-50 is ever twinned, if the railway was still be in service, I'd expect grade separations to be constructed.

there’s also a railroad crossing the A-20 in drummondville i think it is not used often

@@francoisrousseau7026 There's also one in St-Hyacinthe

Thank you. I don't have any footage of A-520.

Simply widening rock cuts along the current highway probably isn’t going to have all that significant of an effect on the natural environment. A-50, while scenic, doesn’t go through a particularly remarkable environment, and it’s not like there isn’t suitable habitat near by for any ecology displaced by the widening project.

Thanks for the comment.

Plus, I forgot to mention that QC A-50 parallels QC R-148 from Gatineau to Mirabel, QC. QC R-148 traverses to Laval, QC while QC A-50 ends at QC R-117 in northeastern Mirabel, QC after an interchange with QC A-15/TCH Alt.

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Agreed, the overtaking is really dangerous and what's more dangerous is the railroad crossing at 10:01, they need to replace that with overpass.

Thanks for the comment.

Totally. There are just too many accidents on that autoroute.

0:18 1. Autoroute/Interstate 440 East Of Rainbow City

1:23 2. Autoroute/Interstate 40 (To Autoroute/Interstate 85)

10:45 3. QC/US-70/29 Autoroute Business/Business 85

11:00 4. Autoroute/Interstate 85

28:51 5. Autoroute/Interstate 85 (Just Near Charlotte Skyline)

The Quebec government has announced that some additional sections of this road are set to be twinned in the coming years. The trouble with blasting the entire roadway is that you have to put all of the rubble somewhere, and while it would have been better to built the entire road all at once, they designed the road the way that they did in order to save some money. Maybe they didn’t have the funding to construct the entire road as a four lane facility, so it will still be incomplete to this day if they had have chosen to build it that way. Thanks for the comment

I’m not talking about 4 laning the road from the getgo, I’m talking about just blasting ALL of the rock needed for the eventual full buildout from the getgo but leaving it all empty/vacant until the additional lanes are eventually needed. No paving the additional lanes; just getting as much dynamite work as possible done years or even decades in advance with all the ROW preserved very accordingly within the original “super 2” construction.

I understand what you are saying, but I don't think you could just leave piles of rock rubble adjacent to the highway without moving it somewhere, and I don't think you could actually complete all the necessary blasting without removing the spoils to access the rock underneath. So it ends up being quite a lot of work.

Well they did build all the overpasses for a 4 lane freeway, at the very least.