NL-Outsidethebox [confederation]

I recently took a trip to Boston and I noticed a few things about their highways that I've never seen in Canada.

This one here I saw in Calais. It was a sign in the middle of the road in a cross walk which was very obvious and prominent to a driver that there was a cross walk there. Especially so if it was more than a two lane road. With all of the cross walk incidents as of late this made me take notice.

Their Highways actually AutoBahns would be a more precise description. If not better IMHO.

They don't have gravel shoulders they seed them with grass. This is a good idea IMHO because the draft from tractor trailers blows the gravel off the shoulder thus creating work and drops from the should to the road surface.

They notch or groove the marking lines and put reflectors in there so that snow plows won't knock them of. Great for fog and low visibility conditions.

All of their guard rails use galvanized I beams for their posts exception being the first 5-6 posts which are made from what looked like 8X8 with a weakening hole at the bottom to allow for shearing.

Most of the I95 which I drove on had animal fencing along it. Which was only 4-5 feet high. I didn't see one road kill the entire trip in the USA lots in Canada though. Their animal fences were also 10-20 feet into the woods. The only reason I can think of for this is so that trees don't have an unobstructed area to fall down across the fence instead by putting the fence in the woods falling trees would hang up and not fall onto the animal fences.

The tolls were brutal though, something in the range of 20$ one way. All of the Trans canada should be toll. Why not the Marine Atlantic which is supposed to be apart of the TCH is Toll and isn't even claimable by our serving military who return home on LTA.

Make no wonder FPI wants to land all of it's product on the Mainland because they avoid the astronomical Marine Atlantic toll ferry rates which takes away from their profits. NL'ians be damned. If Marine Atlantic is tolled then all of the TCH should be tolled. Once again NL'ians are being treated like second class canadians. Tarriffs and tolls ensure we will stay that way.

Truely a wonderfull and enjoyable drive though on that I95, nothing to see though as is a design parameter I'm sure.

Oh construction on a four lane highway to connect Atlantic Canada with the I95 at Houlton Maine is well under way as well.

Update: Forgot to mention this one.

It is a cross walk signal that has a timer that counts down showing how much time is left before the light changes so you can decide if you have enough time or not to cross safely.

North and south lanes have barriers blocking oncoming traffic from being blinded by head lights from the other direction either by trees, berms or paddles on guard rails.