Hwy 99 Fraser River Tunnel (George Massey Replacement) | Proposed

[Spork]

While we think about the future with this replacement, I couldn't help to wonder on my commute home today whether or not building additional lanes at the existing crossing would do much for the long term.

I believe that it would be prudent to get agreement from the CoV to expand the Oak Street bridge with an additional lane in each direction (or two?) before embarking on an expansion at the GMT. With option #5, additional lanes could be added to both the South Arm and North Arm with a future bridge at Boundary. Such a bridge would only have lanes out of Vancouver because of the southbound side of that round being Vancouver, and the northbound side being Burnaby.

With additional lanes, I can't help to wonder if the bottleneck will just move North to the OSB.