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Originally Posted by Alex Mackinnon
Why would you massively upgrade a highway if the choke point that it serves isn't upgraded?
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Originally Posted by nickbeaulieu
But they're already pushing the bottleneck further down the highway by not doing anything about the oak st. bridge.
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The GMB studies already showed that the Oak St Bridge is not the destination for most tunnel traffic.
60% of the tunnel traffic goes to/from Richmond.
30% of the tunnel traffic goes to/from the Steveston part of Richmond specifically.
A minority of Hwy 99 traffic goes to the Oak St Bridge.
The freeway system already distributes Hwy 99 traffic effectively between Oak St, Knight St, and other North-Arm bridges, so it is false to say that there is a 2-lane choke point to the north.
This corridor does not hinge on the Oak St. Bridge, and continually bringing it up just shows that you need to educate yourself on this.
What this corridor needs is
more access into Richmond and ideally the GMB project would have added a brand new additional interchange around Blundell Rd. to help with this.
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