Highways in Canada

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Originally Posted by ssiguy

You guys are so lucky being able to talk about road construction and widening.

We only had one BC expansion proposal............to widen HWY#1 from 4 lanes to 6 between Langley and Abbotford and potential, someday, to Chilliwack. Alas the project has been cancelled. It is the busiest trucking route in the province and literally connect Vancouver to the Interior and the rest of the country and between Langley to Chilliwack has daily traffic volumes of between 60,000 to 75,000 and averages 2 accidents a day between Lang/Chill but in BC even one extra lane on a road that hasn't changed since the 1960s is just too much to ask.
Any extra lanes or replacements of the George Massey have also put on hold. The tunnel remains exactly the same as it was when it was built in the 1960s and carries over 100,000 vehicles a day on 2 lanes in each direction.

Outside of HWY#1 betwtween Van & Langley, there are no 6 lane highways ANYWHERE in the province. 6 lane regular streets are also non-existent anywhere in Vancouver save rush hour on Granville, Burrard, and Hastings Street in the city and the Kingsway in Burnaby.

BC is what happens when people cannot think forward. Seriously, why is there no freeway to downtown?