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Originally Posted by theKB
There are several areas that prove that this makes way more congestion.
Cambie between 16th and the bridge comes to a grinding halt.
Cambie turning left onto marine (EB) where the light right after the intersection now has literally no synch with the major light at marine and cambie.
Dunsmuir viaduct as the lights start and cars get bunched up starting at citadel parade.
It goes on and on and is especially bad when they are not synched in any way shape or form.
The viaduct teardown will be a complete disaster. Vision keeps choking off points at which you can enter and leave the city. One would have thought that the chief proponent of the viaduct teardown (geoff meggs) leaving council would have slowed down the process just a little bit.
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I actually asked CoV to take a look at the intersection on Marine drive and Yukon relative to Cambie because the lack of timing was really annoying me every morning.
As you've obviously noticed, every time the light on Yukon turns red, it doesn't sync with Cambie resulting in the intersection clogging up.
Here is the unedited response from a city engineer after the closed the ticket as completed :
"Good afternoon, From the casework from traffic and data management: It's difficult to coordinate two signals which have different cycle lengths, and it's very difficult to coordinate both eastbound movements (eastbound and south to eastbound) to get the green light at Yukon. Yukon could be preempted to Marine Drive green during eastbound phases at Cambie, but there would be excessive waits for buses on Yukon. It's still under review, and there have been some improvements. Mike G 3-1-1"
There are no improvements, that's total BS. I can't wait until more and more pedestrians use that intersection as the new buildings are being finished and populated and buses aren't the only ones causing the light the change. Maybe there should be a pedestrian overpass there?