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Originally Posted by djmk
ya, i still do not like them. well, at least the big ones. i'm too much of a polite driver and i end up yielding to everybody and nobody yields for me  and besides, i think the rule is.... always yield to the person on your right, so you are yielding once your inside the circle.
besides, right now i'm imaging my mother in law stuck in the center lane of a traffic circle going around and around and around and wondering how she is going to get to the outer lane.
actually, in my neighbourhood in N Burnaby, traffic circles have been installed in about 1/5 of the intersections. many drivers just wizz through them without looking. i ask ICBC why and they said that the purpose of a traffic circle is to have some confusion therefore drivers slow down and if there is an accident, the accident is from the back corner of the car rather than a T-Bone. |
Like others have said before they are safer and once you get used to them (which really shouldnt take long) they make quite a bit of sense. They are also better for fuel economy, as you dont need to be constantly stopping and starting as with a traditional stop sign intersection.
one less tangible benefit is that they allow for a much more asthetically pleasing intersection as the middle of the circle can be filled with landscape features or even fountains statues etc...
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Originally Posted by nickinacan
Not at all. This has nothing to do with the soccer stadium. This is basically a mixed use venue much like GM Place, just on a smaller scale. The demand is there and it would help attract concerts that don't need a large scale venue like GM Place or BC Place.
And yes, they have set the bar very high for them, but they are working extremely hard to accomplish their goals, and even lobbying to attract business and government offices to the area. Even with the current economic situation, investment and the interest to invest in the Surrey City Centre is quite high. Weststone group has another huge project that will be announced in the coming months. Not to mention the investment by the multiple levels of government, which in multiple other upstart cities was the key to getting investment started.
Will Surrey rival Vancouver in 10 years? Probably not. But the rapid development, low business taxes, sustainable development might garner Vancouver to take a look at itself and prepare for more competition. Even if Surrey doesn't rival Vancouver, anything is better that what is currently there.
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Sounds quite promising, maybe could even attract a WHL team for surrey in the near future.