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[Trans Canada Highway] The Malahat
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Posted 02 March 2017 - 07:15 PM
I don't understand how there can be such a discrepancy.
Matt.
Emil is a small shop with low overhead, old crappy equipment and low labour costs who bid low to try to get into the large government project market?
Just a guess.
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Posted 02 March 2017 - 08:17 PM
Perhaps they are the only shop without unionized employees?
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Posted 07 March 2017 - 02:07 PM
The Malahat has been closed since just before noon following a two vehicle head-on collision between a large truck and a passenger vehicle. A northbound truck is believed to have crossed the centre line at split rock and collided with a southbound vehicle. The highway is not expected to re-open for some time.
This is an image of vehicles taking a detour via Shawnigan Lake Road.
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Posted 07 March 2017 - 04:08 PM
From HB:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULmeEkviqHE&feature=youtu.be
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Posted 07 March 2017 - 04:20 PM
Jeez, when you look at HB's video it really shows what a goat track that road is.
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Posted 07 March 2017 - 04:38 PM
Southbound via Shawnigan Lake rd today. Busy Road. Glad it was open because I checked out Mill Bay Ferry and to many cars waiting for it so drove the detour.
Best viewed in HD
http://youtu.be/wI371DCDmMo
Edited by HB, 07 March 2017 - 04:39 PM.
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Posted 07 March 2017 - 05:44 PM
Jeez, when you look at HB's video it really shows what a goat track that road is.
If it's wide enough for him to pull a u-turn, it's wide enough for people to not crash head-on into each other.
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Posted 07 March 2017 - 05:47 PM
The black car in the crash tonight looks awful. The occupants(s) in there might be in tough shape.
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Posted 07 March 2017 - 06:34 PM
We drive the Malahat quite often and are surprised at how lazy drivers seem to be about staying in their own lanes, straying over the yellow lines, especially on the wide corners.
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Posted 07 March 2017 - 07:53 PM
http://youtu.be/QllRp0KpS48
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Posted 07 March 2017 - 08:19 PM
Jeez, when you look at HB's video it really shows what a goat track that road is.
It's a joke.
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Posted 07 March 2017 - 08:58 PM
We drive the Malahat quite often and are surprised at how lazy drivers seem to be about staying in their own lanes, straying over the yellow lines, especially on the wide corners.
This is an epidemic all over Victoria and the Lower Mainland.
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Posted 31 March 2017 - 02:38 PM
Construction officially begins on Malahat Phase 3:
https://news.gov.bc....RAN0152-000987#
When complete the highway will be divided between Finlayson Arm Road to the Malahat summit. The highway will also become 4 lanes between just north of the top of tunnel hill to Shawnigan Lake Road.
https://news.gov.bc....RAN0152-000987#
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Posted 26 April 2017 - 09:03 AM
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Posted 26 April 2017 - 09:36 AM
If we add up all the $$$ numbers, wonder where we are at?
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Posted 26 April 2017 - 09:39 AM
In 2017 dollars, probably up around $100-million since the year 2000.
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Posted 27 April 2017 - 10:28 AM
I was surprised that this design does not extend the current (newish) southbound passing lane that currently ends between Whittaker Road and Shawnigan Lake Road. There will be 300-400 metre section of one lane going south before going back to 2 lanes again at the shawnigan lake intersection.
But this is a classic BC design
You see it also at Tsawwassen - they extended the terminal bound passing lane for a few km and then end it 300 to 400 metres before it starts again at the causeway.
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Posted 28 April 2017 - 06:27 AM
You see it also at Tsawwassen - they extended the terminal bound passing lane for a few km and then end it 300 to 400 metres before it starts again at the causeway.
Drove this yesterday and was thinking it was strange to leave one lane for only a few hundred meters. I was assuming that it probably has something to do with the adjacent land being treaty lands...but not sure.
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Posted 28 April 2017 - 07:12 AM
Drove this yesterday and was thinking it was strange to leave one lane for only a few hundred meters. I was assuming that it probably has something to do with the adjacent land being treaty lands...but not sure.
The road work was paid for by Ivanhoe Cambridge and the Tsawwassen First Nation, not the Province, for the purpose of increasing capacity for the new mall. I imagine the BC Government tried to purchase land from them to four lane that final stretch between Salish Sea Drive and the causeway, but the TFN didn't budge.
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