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[lanforod]

Just put it all in a Google sheets doc and post one link. no need to post the DB every time then.

[Mike K.]

The TCH has been shut down at McKenzie below the overpass. It could be flooding related. Vehicles are using the on and off-ramps as a detour.

[sebberry]

I'm shocked we're not hearing of more collisions around the interchange construction site.  

 

Driving back in tonight in the rain, most of the lane markings are nearly completely invisible.  Adding to that are all the temporary lane dividers which, when between traffic of opposite directions, cast a sort of windmill light effect with the oncoming headlights.  So you have alternating shadows/glare reflected from the wet road which has already washed out whatever markings are left - it all adds up to a terrible experience.

[AllseeingEye]

Totally agree it's very poorly done; I was heading out of town from Uptown last weekend - at dusk - looking to make the right turn up the hill toward McKenzie/Burnside. The "exit" was so poorly marked I damn near took out several dividers after only discerning the actual turn off at the very last instant. It is terribly marked and - typical of Victoria in general at night - also very poorly illuminated.

 

Whether its cloverleafs or overpasses Victoria needs to send a team to the US to figure out how to design these things. And I'm only being partially facetious: in general this region does a terrible job when it comes to major road infrastructure design. 

[Spy Black]

That McKenzie/Burnside exit when heading west is so poorly marked as to render it "not marked at all", it's also completely un-lit (actually pitch black), extremely narrow, and poorly sighted such that once up at McKenzie, you really can't see clearly if any cars are coming from the south, which now blends highway traffic with Admirals traffic, making for a fast, lengthy and steady stream of cars.

 

I'm sure the final exit ramp (when the project is finished) will be fine, but the state of the temporary exit now is ridiculously unacceptable (it's been in its current form for at least a couple of months now).

Edited by Spy Black, 23 February 2020 - 01:13 PM.

[Bernard]

I chose to drive east through the new exchange at night with rain and the markings were useless.   I will be avoiding it at night until it is complete with proper markings

[Lorenzo]

A question for anyone who does the inbound commute weekdays between 7 and 9. I have to head into town tomorrow (Monday) for an appt, my first one since they opened up the interchange. How is the backup now during that time?

Edited by Lorenzo, 08 March 2020 - 05:18 PM.

[Victoria Watcher]

I could have e told you to the minute until I was harassed out of this thread a month or two ago for sharing data.

[Mike K.]

If you want to supply that data it’s fine by me.

[Victoria Watcher]

from sooke and goldstream to victoria city hall:

 

5:39   -  15 minutes car

6:00   -  15 minutes car

6:37   -  19 minutes car

6:58   -  23 minutes car

7:30   -  29 minutes car

7:59   -  29 minutes car

[Mike K.]

23 minute commute at 5PM on this COVID-19 Thursday.

[sebberry]

23 minute commute at 5PM on this COVID-19 Thursday.

 

We've got a few people who will be working from home for a while just to keep the numbers of people mixing in the office to a minimum.  

[Darren14]

What's the ETA on completion at this point.. like i can't be more than a few months right...

[Victoria Watcher]

"summer 2020" last we heard.

[On the Level]

What's the ETA on completion at this point.. like i can't be more than a few months right...

 

I like what Horgan has done....but he needs to start putting pressure on to stop the TCH Mckenzie interchange is turning into the Johnson street bridge legacy of the NDP.  

[Fairbanks]

I like what Horgan has done....but he needs to start putting pressure on to stop the TCH Mckenzie interchange is turning into the Johnson street bridge legacy of the NDP. 

Johnson Street Bridge...NDP?  Huh?  Talk to the city of Victoria.  The province had nothing to do with the Bridge and the TCH is federal.

Facts please.  Research/homework.

Edited by Fairbanks, 11 May 2020 - 08:05 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

the tch is not federal.

[jasmineshinga]

Correct! Despite the name, highways are a Provincial purview. Per Wiki on TCH: "Canada's national highway system is not under federal jurisdiction or coordination, as decisions about highway and freeway construction are entirely under the jurisdiction of the individual provinces."

 

But yeah, the bridge wasn't provincial, it was the gross mismanagement on the municipal level which made it a cluster-F.

[Daveyboy]

I like what Horgan has done....but he needs to start putting pressure on to stop the TCH Mckenzie interchange is turning into the Johnson street bridge legacy of the NDP.  

I think that your meaning was "stop the TCH Mckenzie interchange turning into a fiasco of the NDP similar to the Johnson Street Bridge fiasco of the City of Victoria".  But maybe I'm putting words in your mouth......

[Spy Black]

......the TCH is federal.

Facts please.  Research/homework.

It's not On The Level that needs to do their "Research/homework", or has to worry about posting "facts".