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Originally Posted by hipster duck
The problem isn't that Vancouver hasn't spent enough money or that there aren't enough grade-separation projects, it's that almost no highway projects result in a seamless, connected highway system.
For example, the SFPR isn't fully grade-separated, and at-grade intersections appear at the most annoying spots, such as the access to the Alex Fraser Bridge (aka: the Hwy 91 connector). If there should be a grade-separated interchange anywhere on the SFPR, this is it!
Then there's the 91 south from the Alex Fraser itself which hits a red light at 72nd Ave, backing up traffic. Then there's the Golden Ears bridge, where the road passes under Highway 1 without an exit forcing you to make a left turn from Pacific Highway. All of these are in greenfield sites where you don't have to do any costly expropriation or engineering work. What prevented them from building interchanges here in the first place?
What's ironic is that in most cities the bottlenecks are the bridges. In Vancouver, the bridges are often quite wide and built to highway standards and then, strangely, devolve into surface roads once you get to the ground.
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I agree with the link between major roads themselves need to be improved.
Luckily two ofthe examples you used are going tobe replaced with interchanges in the near future.
72nd on the 99 looks to have a finalized design now (recent press release from the province), finally replacing that traffic light with an interchange.
On the SFPR it has also recently been announced that an interchange is being designed for the 91 connector (which I agree, should have been built in the first place).
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