Burnaby Updates

[BaddieB]

Originally Posted by Klazu

Also, all projects along Willingdon should leave space for widening this arterial road to 6 lanes. It is incredibly congested today.

I agree that room should be left, but it should be for a Skytrain, or really to add actual sidewalks to Willingdon. It's not going to get any less congested by adding lanes. We can't really be surprised that Burnaby has traffic when it has subpar bus service due to a lack of bus lanes, and virtually no good cycling infrastructure (what exists is very limited and misses key destinations and routes)

[ecbin]

Originally Posted by Klazu

To the person saying that Grange could be cut to 2 lanes, that is just crazy talk. It's a very busy road that is needed to bypass Metrotown (just like Imperial) and it is only getting busier.

Not between Patterson and Willingdon it isn't - it's bottlenecked at the Patterson side because of the connection to Kingsway (and there's really nothing that can be done about it short of destroying all walkability there) and from Patterson to Willingdon it behaves like a local road rather than an arterial. Making that stretch a 2 lane road wouldn't affect travel times in any meaningful way while dramatically improving the liveability of that area - an area which will see significantly more pedestrian traffic as the towers get built out.

It's only busy between the Willingdon and Nelson stretch but it otherwise (all the way down to Canada Way) is lightly trafficked - even that stretch between Willingdon and Nelson is only busy b/c people leaving Metrotown are directed there (you can't exit to Kingsway from the Metropolis parkade, you have to go to Grange).

[osirisboy]

Originally Posted by Migrant_Coconut

Fat chance of any road in Burnaby getting wider. They'll have to manage the extra residents the same way Vancouver does.

I’m fine with that! But Burnaby doesn’t have a street grid like van