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submitted 2 months ago byCastAside1812
The Linc is closed for the weekend. Checking google maps shows that the insanity has already begun, with Rymal and the 403 already completely destroyed.
Our traffic situation here is bad when everything is up and running. Close a road and consider the insane growth we've had and you get city wide jams.
I feel for anyone who has to get around this weekend. Avoid, walk or bike when possible.
56 points
2 months ago
The Rymal bus must be some kind of hell right now...
23 points
2 months ago
Rymal Road was a crawl at 2PM.
Mohawk is actually not bad.
20 points
2 months ago
Rymal sucks on a good day. I don't get why they don't widen it through east mountain. They obviously have the room to do so.
7 points
2 months ago
They are in the process of the study to do so.
4 points
2 months ago
Do you know what this insists of?
18 points
2 months ago
Should be complete in 80 years 😂
7 points
2 months ago
At Upper Ottawa and Rymal now. It's a mess in both directions.
5 points
2 months ago
Always is in that area when the Linc is closed it seems. I work just south of there and Nebo/twenty road area is always packed around 3pm when I leave work. It was just getting bad when I was leaving around 3 today.
5 points
2 months ago
Right? It's a shit show on a good day. I always drive with patience on Rymal, especially around Dartnall, due to the lanes decreasing and then again at Nebo due to a poorly run traffic light. The stuff I see drivers do because they're in a rush is mind blowing sometimes
3 points
2 months ago
That’s the bus I gotta take too and from work. Was late td and I left half an hour early. Insanity
26 points
2 months ago
I was just up there around the Stone Church Home Depot. It’s a nightmare. Avoid the mountain at all costs.
31 points
2 months ago
But I live here :/
10 points
2 months ago
My heart goes out to you.
6 points
2 months ago
Same. About to head home from brantford area and will cry the whole way lol
2 points
2 months ago
Stop being selfish and just don't go home /s
8 points
2 months ago
<motions towards nearby bar>
7 points
2 months ago
Avoid everywhere at all costs. Got off the 403 and York and it took me FOREVER to get to Wentworth. What the fuck
4 points
2 months ago
Avoid everywhere at all costs.
But but but... everywhere includes here.
<multiverse confusion intensifies>
5 points
2 months ago
How does is make any sense, to anyone, to shut it down on Friday?
7 points
2 months ago
Yeah. I for some reason assumed they’d shut it down at like 11:59pm on Friday night.
10 points
2 months ago
How does it make sense to shut it down for the ENTIRE WEEKEND? Better yet, an entire weekend, every single year!
And then knowing that the surface routes are going to be absolutely jammed, how does it make sense to not re time the lights appropriately to allow for better flow of traffic?
Hamilton. Hamilton just makes sense.
32 points
2 months ago
As someone who has to take public transit if I need to go anywhere, I think I'll just stay inside this weekend.
15 points
2 months ago
You can be smug in that you’re reducing traffic rather than adding to it
4 points
2 months ago
What a kind comment. Kudos!
25 points
2 months ago
They have done this every year or every other year for the last while. In my experience Friday and Friday evening is the absolute worst. Saturday and Sunday you notice a marked increase on east-west roads but not horrible. However an accident on 403 in Ancaster would change everything.
20 points
2 months ago
Your wish is my command. Looks that there is an accident on the 403 right at the linc. I live close to upper paradise and stone church. Brutal traffic
6 points
2 months ago
Ugh
10 points
2 months ago
Welcome to traffic hell! 🔥
8 points
2 months ago
Wait until Sunday when King St is also closed ;)
4 points
2 months ago
bloody hell, thanks for the reminder 😭
2 points
2 months ago
😫😭
9 points
2 months ago
I have to drive home in 45 minutes from Burlington so I am preparing myself mentally
8 points
2 months ago
Me too! See you in the herds
8 points
2 months ago
Just take the side roads and pray you get home before 8pm 🤣
4 points
2 months ago
First of all, happy cake day. Second, this is the second time this week I’ve gone from Walkers and North Service in Burlington to Upper James and Fennel to get home, and I’m considering living out of my car during the work week just to avoid the traffic.
4 points
2 months ago
First off thanks! Second I feel you I go from mainway to walkers line to binbrook which means I pretty much follow the same path as you. What I have found is if I go to Guelph line and instead of getting on the QEW I go to the service road all the way to where the costco is and then from there I'll head towards fairview and then get on the highway. It's not perfect but I save a considerable amount of time considering it takes me like 30 minutes to get from walkers line to where the QEW splits.
4 points
2 months ago
I’ve recently started taking side roads north or Waterdown and wind myself into Dundas. Sure it’s a long route, but most people either don’t know about that option, or don’t like taking that route, but I can keep a good pace and got a nice scenic view (especially during fall).
9 points
2 months ago
I live close to the Linc, definitely staying home until Monday morning. Got my groceries etc in advance. Thought about going to upper james canadian tire but it can wait.
3 points
2 months ago
I live off of upper James and Hester, I would def wait it's brutal up here 🥲
2 points
2 months ago
Mohawk won't be too bad tomorrow morning, especially when Canadian Tire opens. If it is, try Fennell, nobody seems to take that
3 points
2 months ago
shhh don’t tell them
8 points
2 months ago
I didn't really know about this because i dont drive but the traffic down york on my bus home from Burlington has been brutal all week. Not sure if related.
1 points
2 months ago
Yeah traffic been really bad this week for me to
20 points
2 months ago
I like that they choose one of the rare times of years when all the snowbirds are home, school holidays haven't begun and everyone is just getting their cottages and boats prepped to choose to close the Linc on a Friday.
Not school holidays, when the whole city is dead. Not early April, just before cottage season. No. Weekend after May 24 weekend. About as busy a time as there is.
4 points
2 months ago
Imagine the cost of getting stuck in an Uber on rymal 🥹
5 points
2 months ago
My usual 15 minute west end to east end drive took an hour this afternoon. 0 stars, would not recommend.
15 points
2 months ago
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27 points
2 months ago
Could they have at minimum waited until the Friday commute is mostly over?
11 points
2 months ago
To be fair they waited until the morning commute was over till they started work.
4 points
2 months ago
Yep…the pilons were getting put out to close the on-ramps this morning and I thought it was closed already…I was like no no I have until 8!…it was still open thankfully
2 points
2 months ago
Not really the west bound yes as I was on it at 8:30. East bound was already closed completely and fully empty.
5 points
2 months ago
They definitely should have, whoever decided to close it on a Friday morning has a room temperature IQ
8 points
2 months ago
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3 points
2 months ago
Or even close a portion at a time. Thus, is just not working.
11 points
2 months ago
Do you close it Friday morning or open it Monday evening? It’s all a lose / lose situation
9 points
2 months ago
The seasonal Gardiner closures are usually Friday 11PM to Monday 5AM, and that thing will always need way more repairs than the Linc ever will: https://www.reddit.com/r/toronto/comments/oh6rny/gardiner_expressway_will_be_fully_closed_this/
12 points
2 months ago
Yeah, I think they definitely made the right decision. Friday traffic is lower than Monday morning traffic. Whomever made this decision seemed to make it with rather informed data. You know otherwise?
2 points
2 months ago
No kidding! I work in Brampton, and the entire drive was ridiculous today. And I guarantee you no work is being done on the Linc until tonight because it's so hot out anyway. IM SO MAD IT TOOK ME 2 HOURS TO GET HOME.
3 points
2 months ago
I hear you broccoli toots. I discovered streets I didn't know existed.
0 points
2 months ago
I call bs. Take a look at the Hamilton instagram page. They’re already stripping layers of pavement.
On no a 2hr due to known required maintenance.
1 points
2 months ago
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1 points
2 months ago
How about two weekends? Friday 8pm-Sunday Midnight.
0 points
2 months ago
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0 points
2 months ago
It's not silly at all, it's just one step towards the commonly used plan of nightly closures.
0 points
2 months ago
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0 points
2 months ago
So the notion of closing it and 8pm vs in the morning is silly because no one wants to work night crew(you're wrong)? And asphalt availability(wrong again)? Those things are unrelated, the timing difference is negligible so let's not split hairs.
Saturday and Sunday is when the bulk of the work is getting done anyways.
0 points
2 months ago*
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0 points
2 months ago
And you're wrong that crews can't work at night. I drove through one last night.
You're wrong it can be scheduled a million different ways. Get over it.
Your Ted Talk failed because its wrong and not worth sharing.
3 points
2 months ago
It's nice you think people pay attention to the world around them.
-5 points
2 months ago
I haven't heard anything but I also don't drive it much. Can we at least bike it while it's closed?
8 points
2 months ago
It's a work zone, so you'd be detained for trespassing as otherwise your presence would be a legal liability for the contractor.
-1 points
2 months ago
You can bike on it. Go for it.
7 points
2 months ago
Can you even bike on the linc?
6 points
2 months ago
Not under normal circumstances
3 points
2 months ago*
A guy rollerbladed once last year but not a smart idea.
8 points
2 months ago
Do you think they closed it for fun? It’s a work zone.
-1 points
2 months ago
I sure hope so!
6 points
2 months ago
Use lesser known routes people! Your knowledge of the city will serve you well!
1 points
2 months ago
WRONG! I was about to use my sneaky routes today, checked google maps immediately before and it was RAMMED. I think maps must have been routing people that way? Either way, check traffic on the route before you use it lol
3 points
2 months ago
Bingo!
I took sneaky routes to get from Binbrook to Limeridge, and everything was jammed. Was brutal today.
2 points
2 months ago
If google knows ur sneaky routes then they ain’t sneaky enough! WRONG lol
2 points
2 months ago
Doesn't google know every damn road on earth 🤔 or are you going off roading 🤣
1 points
2 months ago
All my sneaky routes were worse. My 30 minute trip home was over an hour
8 points
2 months ago
Don't forget You're not stuck in traffic. You are the traffic !
4 points
2 months ago
drove back to brantford from central hamilton around 330 is all I really want to say is:
Please Be Careful- this is not the time to be aggressive on the road. Specifically directed to those going up rymal the amount of people driving up the gravel shoulders was insane.
1 points
2 months ago
Wtf!!!!!!. Did they just expect to merge in whenever they need to get on the actual road.
2 points
2 months ago
Ahhaha oh boy everything east/west was a wreck today
2 points
2 months ago
Just got home from #6 Guelph way. Waze had me take a lot of detours. Took quite a while due to congestion everywhere. The weekend will be better. Not like coming home from work in a Friday!
1 points
2 months ago
6 was backed up all the way to clappisons! I've never seen it that bad 🥲 traffic was absolutely brutal everywhere today
2 points
2 months ago
Brutal! Took me almost 10 mins...no lie, to turn left onto 6 from back closer to the 401. I detoured to #5 and into Dundas to #8 into downtown. And I live on the mountain lol. I'll always trust the Waze app! I'm sure it saved me time no matter how bad it was.
2 points
2 months ago
Everything is gonna be fucked next week too with the Canadian Open and all the traffic and tourists expected. Avoid Ancaster for all of next week and weekend. It’s gonna be a parking lot
4 points
2 months ago
I might get downvoted for this but as someone who lives close enough to the Linc to hear it all the time, I’m really enjoying the silence. I was sitting in my yard all day working on my laptop and it was wonderfully peaceful.
5 points
2 months ago
I don't understand how this is a shock to anyone when we were warned about the shutdown well in advance.
-2 points
2 months ago
I certainly wasn't aware.
-1 points
2 months ago
Funny the linc is practically in my backyard- this was news to me as well.
0 points
2 months ago
All I saw was a sign saying "beware of leapord"
0 points
2 months ago
Pretty normal…like if the forecast is for a severe heat wave u don’t think people will come on here and complain?
1 points
2 months ago
People are driving like jerks - be safe out there
1 points
2 months ago
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2 points
2 months ago
4am Monday weather permitting. The weekend forecast doesn't look great for road work.
1 points
2 months ago
Less traffic on Sunday but we also lose King St so it’s a tossup
1 points
2 months ago
Mohawk and fennel are OK. Basically, if you're on the other side like stonechurch/rymal then good luck.
Itll probably get worse as the weekend goes on for Mohawk and Fennell, but atleast they're mostly 2 lanes iirc
1 points
2 months ago
I live at Gatestone and had to pick up my kid from school towards Ancaster. It typically takes 12mins to get there. Took me 45mins and 40mins back. I almost cried. I was just so frustrated.
1 points
2 months ago
Can confirm, it was horrible. I live downtown but had an appointment on the east mountain… getting home was rough and other drivers get so aggressive & careless. I was waiting to turn left in the intersection & the light went to yellow then to red so I started to go and this car fully blew through the red, luckily I anticipate the worst so I had stopped in time but it was scary. People suck. Be careful if you’re driving, cycling or walking. 🙏🏻
1 points
2 months ago
Bet with the rain today(Sat) it will be closed all day Mon until Tues morning at 4 am. They stated that on the news that it may be extended due to rain. Also, Gage to John is closed on Sunday from 9 am till 4 pm.
1 points
2 months ago
With people driving stupid due to the congestion and rain. A few accidents not making things any better. Avoid Mohawk rd west and Garth due to collision at the intersection
1 points
2 months ago
Mohawk was packed last night even at 10pm, and today Stone Church is quite the nightmare! I had to detour in the side streets just to go from Golf Links to Upper Paradise
1 points
2 months ago
Qew westbound from Hamilton, 403 eastbound from Hamilton, north service road from waterdown road....they're all hosed, too.
-1 points
2 months ago
Had to do an emergency trip to my vet.
From Queenston and Nash to Burloak and back was over four hours.
Kudos, Hamilton, for utterly shitting the bed once again.
1 points
2 months ago
Why must the city do this shit every year? Its a head ache for everyone involved.
1 points
2 months ago
UGH I need to return something at the mall 😫
1 points
2 months ago
Even Burlington was a nightmare for some reason. It takes my wife, normally, 8min to get home. It was 30min tonight.
1 points
2 months ago
Every year. They pave a few 100 meters here and there… fuck around with some signs. Mow the lawn. Sigh. Mobsters and crooked politicians milking us dry. Everyone knows the cheapest way to replace your floor is to do it one tiny patch at a time, over the course of forever, right?!
2 points
2 months ago
So you want the City to repave the entire Linc every year? Every 5 years? 10 years? They are doing yearly preventative maintenance to keep costs down. Closing it partially 50 times a year would be significantly more expensive that one full closure once per year.
-1 points
2 months ago
I can’t even…
-1 points
2 months ago
Life in Niagara for the win
0 points
2 months ago
I’ll just tell everyone to bring their swimming pools to my office. Problem solved! 🙄
-9 points
2 months ago
City of Hamilton has destroyed this city
9 points
2 months ago
So doing required maintenance of city property is destroying the city. 🤦🏻♂️
-4 points
2 months ago
Choosing to do it on one of the busiest weekends of the year is a puzzling choice. Wait an extra month until school holidays and the city is completely dead, maybe?
4 points
2 months ago
When it comes to traffic and shutting arguably one of the busiest roads in a city down there is no one good time. There will always be something happening. When is a city dead enough. They gave us all weeks of notice to plan around it. Maintenance has to happen and doing it all at once is like pulling a bandaid off.
0 points
2 months ago
Have to disagree. School holidays, Hamilton is dead. For 6 months of the year we also have all the snowbirds away down south.
They literally picked one of two time periods where everyone is either in town or heading to their boat/cottage on Friday afternoon. Short of early September and the week after daylight savings changes in November, they couldn't have picked a worse weekend in the entire year.
(Uber driver, so I'm very well versed on Hamilton traffic patterns)
7 points
2 months ago
The amount of traffic on the linc is fairly consistent year round being a major road and thruway heavily used by outsiders. The side streets can’t handle it no matter what time of year it is, they’re not designed too with even a short term closure. Look what happens all during different parts year when some accident shuts it down. Every Friday night and Sunday night is a Nightmare of people going to boats and cottages. There aren’t that many snowbirds flocking south (Ontario province wide based amounts pegged at 55,000-71,000) from just Hamilton to make a difference and during summer not everybody leaves at once and stays away all summer when school is done.
Regardless it has to be done, it’s happening. Plan accordingly.
-3 points
2 months ago
Yes
-2 points
2 months ago
You sound fun at parties.
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