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Originally Posted by SOSS
Correct me if I'm wrong, I wasn't living in the area during the Olympics, but weren't the viaducts closed to traffic during the games with next to no major traffic issues? If this were the case, I'm sure that removing a short section of unconnected freeway will have little major effect.
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During the Olympics, our downtown office was largely empty, and I think lots of others were too. So there would not have been the regular commuter flows of traffic. A lot of people also avoided the downtown and went on vacation.
So the closure would not have been a good "test case".
That said, traffic will - always - redistribute.
You'll see North Shore traffic diverted through the DTES and Gastown, and Hwy 1 1st Ave. traffic diverted to the new "superroad" and Georgia or Smithe (and maybe even to Quebec, West 2nd and Cambie Bridge), and some will choose to exit Hwy 1 earlier at Grandview (instead of 1st Ave.) and take 12th Ave / Clark Drive, GNW, West 2nd and Cambie Bridge.
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