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Originally Posted by aberdeen5698
...which shows the how false the "goods movement" argument is. This argument is constantly trotted out to justify road expansion, but we have way more than enough infrastructure to move goods. The problem isn't goods movement, it's single occupancy vehicles. By far the cheapest way to expedite goods movement would be to create incentives (like tolls) for SOV traffic to choose different alternatives (like transit).
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Aberdeen... both you and the foregoing poster are `cherry-picking` data. Quite easy to do in order to arrive at a certain willful conclusion. Very obvious that both of ya have not had personal `day-to-day` as well as `long-term exposure` to the GMT. IOW, have not `lived` the GMT - like I and many others have. I have explained, in my numerous previous posts, detailed facts inclusive of the massive container trucking increase (with impacts thereto) ... but obviously to no avail.
Based upon the data... just this nugget:
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In the afternoon, delays for the one lane of northbound traffic are far greater, averaging about 20 minutes and ranging up to 50 minutes.
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Ya just gotta try that some time - just getting from one side of the GMT to the other (forget about the rest of the way). Might just grow some hair on your chest.
BTW, funny ya mention GMT SOV traffic. I know that ya are from inner city Van. But guess what? I just re-read a chunk of the PMB thread and noticed that ya posted numerous posts thereto looking forward to `drive` certain segments of the new Hwy 1 upgrades. Why didn`t ya just take `transit`? If ya deny same, I will re-post your posts thereto. No skin off my back.
So why the hypocrite? Ya wanna impose social engineering in my neck of the woods, yet ya freely boasted in the PMB thread that ya were lookin`forward to drivin` the new Hwy 1 upgrades? No logical sense whatsoever. What gives?
On that note, others here say that we can `save` money on the project by reducing its scope. I can say the same thing about the proposed Broadway subway line. Why not just turn the curb lane into a bus-only lane and add numerous more buses? Would save $billions, right?
Or perhaps turn the Broadway curb lane into at-ground LRT? Would save another $billion perhaps. Right? But I know better. And have some schooling in transportation & logistics. Only a subway along Broadway is a long-term solution - akin to the current GMB proposal. When ya build somethin` - best strategy is to build it `right` from the get-go. End of story.
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