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Originally Posted by tybuilding
It does, it will stay that way. Lets face it that there is not much reason to commute daily from Delta to West Van across Vancouver. Adding a freeway to Vancouver is impracticable and expensive and unnecessary. People commuting to downtown should switch to transit. With parking at $20 a day you would be stupid to commute downtown in my opinion.
As far as cycling is concerned there needs to be serious upgrading of the networks outside of the crossing. This project will be unacceptable if they just throw $2 million or so to upgrade the networks. It is not enough considering this project will likely cost another $3-5 billion if it is like the Port Mann. Surrey has a plan for a greenway pathway parallel to the 99 on the east side of the 99. This project should fund the entire length. At the same time the route though Delta should be done properly, ideally a multi-use path separated from the 99 or highway 10. The path on Shell Road in Richmond should be upgraded and extended and connected to the Canada Line bridge and to the tunnel.
My Proposed Cycling infrastructure routing and upgrades |
This is what is needed and should be provided by this project. This is what should have been provided with the the Gateway projects.
What the Gateway project delivered is not good enough. More should be demanded with the 99 corridor project. Connecting to existing bike networks is not good enough.
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