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Originally Posted by swimmer_spe
You should visit there. Go for a boat ride. You will see that the side of the Malahat Mountain is too steep for a reasonable speed road on the edge. So, the other option of a bridge would make more sense, but then you have the challenge of building a bridge over 1000m high above the inlet.
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Yea this is where Google’s terrain map doesn’t do justice, unfortunately.
I did go through the Malahat once back in grade 11 (which is 8 years ago!). All I remember is the prolonged 2-lane section, U-turn spots, that 90-degree turn south of Mill Bay with mountain on one side and river on the other, lots of lights in the wilderness afterward, grain trains in Duncan, and this mall in Nanaimo where I could see the Inland Island Highway high up there.
Maybe next time I visit Vancity again, I’ll rent a car so I can check out all the places that I couldn’t reach by bus.