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Originally Posted by Urbanmetro
Surrey has very poor street grid with 100 to 200m between streets and about 800m between arterial roads. Vancpuber is 50m or less for streets, not just in down town. In a short time, Surrey will have disastrous paralyzing traffic as it has much less road capacity than Vancouver but will have substantially more population by 2050. That'swhat happens when a suburb is being made into a city... growing pains. All new areas of the city need a proper street grid...
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Have you ever drove in Vancouver proper?
Roads further spaced out means fewer intersections, which increases overall traffic throughput and reduces conflict points.
Vancouver's arterials are also spaced out every 1/2 mile (~800m) but with much inferior standards compared to Surrey as the city was built up before the era of automobiles.
Vancouver's arterials are typically two/four-lane street without left-turn lanes or median and street parking is mostly allowed.
People make abrupt lane changes and whole traffic comes to halt as a vehicle try to park on the street or make left-turns onto residential streets spaced every 50 metres as you have mentioned.
Most of Surrey's arterial streets have land already dedicated for ultimate four/six-lane widening as per needed basis with left-turn bays and concrete median.
Also street parking is generally not allowed on arteries in Surrey.
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