The video first shows an aerial view of what the current morning rush hour traffic pattern is like Trans-Canada Highway/McKenzie intersection, then switches to show what it will look like in 2018 when the new Cloverleaf interchange is complete. Watch the afternoon simulation.
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The before is not representative of actual traffic flow (if you can call it that), if the traffic was that light there would be no need for any “improvements”. Unless the entire highway has improvements all this will do is move the bottleneck further along.
I do agree that the traffic flow represented is too light…..it’s stop and go from Millstream which isn’t represented.
Your statement that the entire highway needs to be improved assumes that traffic congestion is caused by commuters going downtown and therefore the congestion will backup somewhere else. At certain times of the day you have almost half of the traffic trying to turn at that intersection, causing the rest of the traffic to sit. That’s why the congestion seems to disappear for morning commuters after they get through McKenzie.
I’m not saying that the new overpass will be a permanent solution to the regions transportation problems, but it’s a start.
Good points.
Yes agreed good points, guess I was looking at more than just the AM (PM is sometimes worse – weekends in summer etc..) rush being a long suffering west shore commuter. I also was looking at the larger picture of other intersections like Burnside/Mckenzie, traffic flowing to the TCH from McKenzie, Admirals to TCH heading west, etc.. Seriously why are there traffic lights on a Highway? 😉 My thinking is also tainted by the “new” overpass in Langford – yes it funnels traffic but just leads to further bottlenecks elsewhere (like Goldstream, Sooke Road, Veterans, etc.. It reminds me of the way local Municipal, Regional(CRD), Federal and Provincial Governments deal with the homeless, prostitution and low level crime – they move it out of one neighbourhood into another mentality. Again I am not saying you are wrong – you are very right, but I am not assuming the entire issue is those heading down-town, much commercial traffic turns off at McKenzie to head to the Pat bay for instance. All levels of Govt should sit down together on the major infrastructure in the CRD before it turns into another Vancouver… should we speak about what’s going to happen when they start building this? “Blue Bridge Part Deux”?
I agree, I spoke with the engineer over Burnside/Mckenzie and he said he would love to work with the municipality on that intersection.
Goldstream through to the Malahat is quite a challenge. They would need to punch a roadway through further west, which is through our drinking water watershed. The E&N could help for commuters should they finally decide to replace the RDCs that were built in 1956. Can you imagine our Victoria Regional Transit System being limited to buses built in 1956? Can you imagine regional transit ridership being told that their bus pass not only needs to pay for the bus, but also needs to chip in for roads, bridges etc that the bus rides on? How many $100s of dollars would each bus rider need to pay? This is what E&N rail riders face today.
I still see traffic lights. Back to the drawing board. Here allow me to do your job for you…(see pic).
If something is in the way knock it down. Go big or go home, else you will just be band aiding the problem and will need to build a new one in the future.