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Originally Posted by Mininari
I know overpass strikes is the hot topic right now, but can we talk a little bit about the Oak Street Bridge area? Ya ya, I know, its been bad for a long, long time (I grew up in Port Moody, lived in the GVRD until 2006, and it was atrocious then), but come on, something has got to give on this... I experienced a total clusterf*ck of congestion today, trying to get to the Tsawassen Ferry terminal to make the 7pm ferry. I left UBC at 5:00pm, and did not make my reservation cutoff (fortunately the 7pm was not full today). Enroute, I was witness to no less than four *bad* driver events, including someone making a very aggressive left turn across the 3 southbound lanes on Oak Street, basically forcing his turn movement through moving traffic (!)
Anyways, I imagine I'm going to get flamed one way or another for making such as obvious complaint about something thats been F*cked for decades, but why oh why can we not do something about this problem, at least for southbound traffic? I know the CoV has had a 'no new lanes' into the city policy for decades but isn't the Sim City regime, I mean when has there been a better political presence in council to do something about this?
The Marpole / Oak street bridgehead needs to be unf*cked.
End rant.
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Rant continued
I've also been stuck in this mess going over Arthur Laing bridge many times. There have been days it has taken me 40 mins to get from Yukon street to the bridge which is insane; it's 1.5 km. Last week, 90 minutes to drive about 15 km from office to home when I had to go in. Only other choice is Knight Street Bridge and that one is very congested as well.
I believe it's mostly, because of the construction in the Oak Street area and I saw a new sign indicating that lanes on Oak Street Bridge were going to be impacted until March 31 which means many people will go to Arthur Laing or Knight St Bridge to avoid Oak.
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