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[Bingo]

I like to read all posts as we continue to learn more about ourselves and how we respond to the news of the day.

I don't think it is possible to totally ignore a post as it will show up again when someone quotes that person with a rebuttal.

Just exchanging an opinion, which has something to do with an interchange...just to get back on topic.

[2F2R]

Drove by today ... turning right of Mckenzie onto highway ... forms and steal going up !!!

Edited by 2F2R, 18 March 2017 - 01:16 PM.

[LJ]

Drove by today ... turning right of Mckenzie onto highway ... forms and steal going up !!!

That might be more prophetic than you meant.

[weirdie]

I think we might want to point people at the "ignore" functionality. It's remarkably effective. I haven't read an HB post in months.

WHERE? Please tell me this isn't a joke. I've been asking for one for over a year!

[Bingo]

WHERE? Please tell me this isn't a joke. I've been asking for one for over a year!

A similar question was asked here.

http://vibrantvictor...-47#entry373342

[Fairbanks]

In the field below the schoolyard.

[ressen]

I know it's off topic,but one rainy fall day my friend and I paddled a canoe on Colquits river from Panama flats all the way to the inner harbour. The water was so high under the bridge by Tch and the mall that we had to lay on our backs and push the canoe down using our feet against the underside of the deck so that we could complete the journey without portageing . I believe that any tidal influence on Colqits river ends near the movie theatre.

[Mike K.]

That's pretty cool, ressen. The last time I was passing through Cuthbert Holmes there was a guy kayaking the river.

[malahatdrive]

https://news.gov.bc....TRAN0160-001048

 

Work on the first contract for the McKenzie interchange project has passed the halfway mark, and the second and final construction tender will be posted to BC Bid later this spring.

Crews working under the first contract are currently:

• placing preload materials to compress the existing soft soils, which will minimize future settlement following construction. Drains enabling vertical drainage have been installed to release groundwater and help speed up the soil settling process;
• drilling and blasting;
• building the retaining walls to support the Galloping Goose overpass; and,
• widening and realigning the Galloping Goose Trail and beginning construction of the new pedestrian and cyclist bridge over McKenzie Avenue.

Upcoming work will involve relocating the waterline once the new pipe arrives in the coming weeks, and starting to build the temporary pedestrian bridge over the highway.

The second round of work will begin in summer 2017 on the remaining activities that include lowering the Trans-Canada Highway, constructing the ramps, overpass, and new pedestrian and cyclist bridge over the highway, as well as the final landscaping.

[malahatdrive]

Latest Photos:

 

https://flic.kr/p/SWJSpu

Edited by malahatdrive, 05 April 2017 - 09:18 AM.

[nagel]

They are paving a section of the former shoulder/grass on the east side of McKenzie today, just north of the interchange.  I believe this is to reroute the 2 northbound travel lanes around from the middle of McKenzie, where they'll need to install concrete supports for the Galloping Goose bridge.

 

The Goose bridge will be in by end of summer or so and will sit for a few months for the approaches to it on each side to finish preload settling.

[nagel]

McKenzie has been realigned to clear out the formerly right turn lane onto the TCH. A section of this will be drilled for the columns holding the new Goose overpass. My guess is 4 columns where the white marks as in the last photo. They're also placing crush for the Goose east of the interchange.

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[lanforod]

[LJ]

Are they working overnight on this project? Mainly just at night? 24 hours?

[Nparker]

Are they working overnight on this project?...

I think so. I seem to recall a recent story in the news about complaints from neighbours. Of course this being Victoria, that could have been just about any news story not specifically the McKenzie project.

[nagel]

All day and night. They take some days off like Sundays and holidays. Lane closures only at night. Right now westshore bound one lane is closed. They blast at 8pm and sometimes a bit later but never past 915. Excavators and dump trucks run all night long. Doesn't bother me I'm far enough away but others are losing their minds.

[VicHockeyFan]

http://www.saanichne...-admirals-road/

 

 

Saanich residents call for traffic calming measures on Admirals Road

 

 

[On the Level]

 

http://www.saanichne...-admirals-road/

 

   

 

OMG....."traffic calming".  Why do we keep pretending major thoroughfares are country lanes?  We just spent millions on an overpass.....so lets spend millions more sticking objects in the way of the traffic.

Edited by On the Level, 25 April 2017 - 08:06 PM.

[VicHockeyFan]

Residents who wish to access Portage Road off Highway 1 must travel down Admiral Road, then turn up hill onto Esson Road.

 

“The turn of well over 90 degrees from Admirals [Road] and then up hill into Esson [Road] is especially dangerous for cyclists,” said Norman Bruce, a Skeena Place resident.

 

Cyclists must perform this turn, all while signalling and slowing down as they come down Admiral Road, said Bruce.

 

Cars travelling down Admirals Road meanwhile naturally accelerate as they come down the hill. “This makes it even more difficult and dangerous as they (cyclists) are trying to stick out their arms and break at the same time now that the entry at Portage Road is blocked off,” he said.

 

Cars meanwhile turning off Admirals Road onto Esson often cut across the bike lane running down the right-hand side of Admiral, thereby endangering cyclists or other drivers, said Blogg.

 

As for traffic heading up Admirals Road, it has to stop in middle traffic to let the cyclists pass across the entrance of Esson Road, said Bruce.

 

 

 

Surely the small amount of traffic that have to make that turn are already familiar with it, no?  Especially bikes.

 

I also don't think many bikes signal a right tun lol.

[Nparker]

So the solution solution is to slow ALL traffic down to accommodate the handful of cyclists making a turn here?