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Originally Posted by Glacier
And that's a complete and utter joke. Any other jurisdiction in the western world would be building a freeway, but not BC. Nope, they cheap out for long term pain. Look at highway 1 though Hope, Chilliwack, Abbotsford and Langley. Imagine if they had cheaped out by putting all the lanes together. Then when land is very expensive, it would cost triple to price to expand to 3 lanes each way. They have the luxury of adding lanes in the middle because of the grass median.
BTW, the Cariboo connector has more traffic than Hope to Abbotsford had when the properly twinned the highway.
The original plan was to actually build a new 4 lane highway from 70 Mile House straight down to Kamloops where it would cross the Thompson at Singh Street and up Summit Dr. to highway 1 with another good connection to the Halston Connector (over to highway 5). Local politics means the governments are unwilling to bypass Cache Creek since they still feel bad about the Coq. doing so. |
I assume you wrote that article? BC's way of doing things is a little strange, but as long as you put in a concrete barrier (which BC doesn't do a lot of the time), it's fine and is what is done in most places with higher population density. Building 100m medians is incredibly wasteful of space, and despite what that article claims, also incredibly ugly.
This would be fine for 95% of the long distance roads in Canada essentially forever:
It's also completely false that very other jurisdiction in the western world would be building a freeway to a small town of 74,000 people. For example, the road to Aberdeen from Edinburgh is a fairly low standard 4 lane highway. The road from Newcastle to Edinburgh isn't even 4 lanes. There's plenty of examples of what you would perceive to be under built roads - BC isn't some anomaly.