Here are some older arm fixtures that are very uncommon here now. You can see the common straight tapered e arm and the underbraced arms. This road became split off into 3 sections when the highway beside (where the highmasts are) was built. Reason why we have 3 "Heart lake" roads due to the new 410 beside it
Cool arms! I looked up the road on google maps. I can see why they separated the road in the direction of the pic but why did they separate the road in the direction going away from the pic? Looks like it ran parallel to the freeway, not in its path. I noticed an R47 on a pole from the time this freeway was built. Does that mean this freeway was built in the 90s sometime?
It opened in 1978. Yeah I should have said parallel lol. Where did you see the R47? I know theres one random one and a R37 on the old section of heart lake road just north of bovaird.
Ahh cool! North york also used to have these arms but they got killed off during the HPS conversion. Another thing interesting is the 410, I know the original lighting was cobras since there's still the original pole bases along a few stretches of the 410.
haha, I never realized the stretch of road to the south is actually also called heartlake road too (only for a small portion as it changes name at each end it turns). This stretch has an uncommon variation of luminaires.
@Mike: there is a major railway that cuts across where the road stops, not enough demand for the unsafe crossing. I railway does go underneath the parallel freeway though.
@Joe: You mean the cobra pole bases that are part of the concrete barrier walls along the freeway side right. Those never had cobras on them, they were "built in" to the barrier for future lighting, but by that time they just went with the high masts in the middle...
I know there were some cobras at Bovaird before. I seen a picture on vintage kings and just in front of the bridge there was what looked like a B2255 on a polefab. Now, I don't know why MTO decided to use those hubbell rmg's but they are a nice change around here
Ive biked along Heart lake road including the ex parts that are now reclaimed by nature I wonder what it would have been like to travel on before the highways existance
@m@ I guess it's another one of those MTO rough in that never got used lol. Another one I know of are the pole bases on one of the 404 overpasses over the 401. It was built in 1999-2000 but by that time highmast are already being installed in that area so the pole bases sat empty all these years.
Heart Lake road also features some abandoned R47s. That's cause the road got detoured when the 410 was extended back in 2007. If you set the streetview date to 2007 you can see how it used to look.
do they still work? i saw those while hunting around that area looking at that abandoned stretch. here they severed this road when they built I-195 in the 40s. Look back at the 2007 streetview. You can see the road is still brick too. not a recent notalgic thing If you zoom in you can see where it picked up on the other side of the old I-195 (...) here. . Those underbraced arms are from the 40s and held 400W MV teardrops and form 109s, There's actually a Fisher Pierce add featuring one of these poles in Providence. (...) here you can see the old rout of I-195 as well as the new one. The pillars of the old bridge are still over the water. The freeway curved northward around Traverse street, went over those pillars, and curved west again before ending on I-95. You can see they build "Friendship Street" where the freeway (...) this here is a shot of the old 95/195 interchange after demolition of the eastboung 195 occured. the shot is from the 195 westbound ramp onto 95 south. change the streetview to current day, and they got rid of the median on 95 and made a jersey barrier with M-400 FCOs.
That section past bovaird is recent too so nature hasn't fully reclaimed it yet. You can tell where the road was going by the ramps onto roads such as Queen Williams and Clark
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@Mike: there is a major railway that cuts across where the road stops, not enough demand for the unsafe crossing. I railway does go underneath the parallel freeway though.
@Joe: You mean the cobra pole bases that are part of the concrete barrier walls along the freeway side right. Those never had cobras on them, they were "built in" to the barrier for future lighting, but by that time they just went with the high masts in the middle...
Heart Lake road also features some abandoned R47s. That's cause the road got detoured when the 410 was extended back in 2007. If you set the streetview date to 2007 you can see how it used to look.