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Originally Posted by Metro-One
If you actually look at the proposed approaches for both ends of the new Pattullo it does not take a civil engineer to clearly see that the main span is meant to be 6 lanes. 4 through lanes and 2 add / drop lanes. Having the main span at 4 lanes creates several unnecessary merging pinch points.
Also the Pitt River bridge is completely irrelevant to the Pattullo since they serve completely different corridors (and even cross different rivers). And the Pitt River Bridge doesn’t land in Coquitlam, it lands in Port Coquitlam.
Also the Port Mann is no longer the widest in the world. Also having the the Pattullo land in Coquitlam would make little sense since it is better to have major bridges regularly spaced out along the river. That was a silly argument from New West to begin with and actually highlights my point for why it is troublesome to leave major road and bridge projects up to the cities.
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With Horgan fronting the money for the PB, don't count out the 6 lane option. The government doesn't just hand over money without having a say in what is being built. Until a bid for a certain design has been put to tender, anything is possible.
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