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#121 Danma

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Posted 19 August 2021 - 03:09 PM

There's going to be a dedicated pedestrian and cycling tunnel - I'm actually most excited about that as it makes bike touring far easier from Swartz Bay.

 

This is genuinely interesting, as it gives me an option of cycling into town from Tsawwassen that didn't exist before.

Hopefully they'd link it up with some decent bike paths on either side...


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#122 LJ

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Posted 19 August 2021 - 07:26 PM

But the eight lane tunnel only has three lanes each way for vehicle traffic. This is exactly the same as they have now with the counter flow lanes.

 

It's not going to improve anything.

 

The only reason this is a tunnel is because the Liberals proposed a bridge, which would be open by next year by the way, if they had continued on with it.


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#123 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 19 August 2021 - 09:11 PM

I think traffic levels are not really increasing or won’t. the old tunnel can be refurbished to last another 40 years.

#124 Mike K.

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Posted 20 August 2021 - 03:25 AM

Conceivably you could counter flow lanes with the new design, too, but the highway only has three lanes. Unless they counterflow highway lanes motorists will bunch up going from four to three.

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#125 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 20 August 2021 - 03:29 AM

is there currently congestion? all these Road and transit projects seem to be going ahead while ignoring the potential new reality of more WFH and reduced 9-5 office workers and student movement.

#126 Mike K.

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Posted 20 August 2021 - 03:32 AM

Yes, it’s congested. WFH won’t change the fact it’s the only crossing for many miles in a region with millions of people.
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#127 punk cannonballer

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Posted 20 August 2021 - 07:13 AM

But the eight lane tunnel only has three lanes each way for vehicle traffic. This is exactly the same as they have now with the counter flow lanes.

 

It's not going to improve anything.

 

The only reason this is a tunnel is because the Liberals proposed a bridge, which would be open by next year by the way, if they had continued on with it.

 

Of course it will improve things. If nothing else (and there are other benefits) a dedicated BRT lane will mean much faster public transit through there.


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#128 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 03 May 2022 - 04:53 AM

5 things you (probably) didn't know about Massey Tunnel

 

It's a true low point in Canada
 
 
 
 

1. It's the lowest road in Canada

 

This may come as a surprise, but if you think about it, it makes sense. Most of Canada is not at sea level, so tunnels in other places may be further below the surface, but not as low down.

 

The road's lowest point isn't that time it got fired and was couch surfing for a month, but about 22 metres below the Fraser River, which empties into the ocean just to the west of the tunnel.

 

 

 

 

https://www.timescol...-tunnel-5318889


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#129 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 31 July 2022 - 05:08 AM

Sixty years ago, a political ­melodrama unfolded 13 kilometres east of ­Revelstoke.

 

In the summer of 1962, after 12 years of political wrangling and great feats of engineering, the final section of the Trans-Canada Highway was nearing completion.

 

That long-awaited section was the 148-kilometre stretch between Golden and Revelstoke. Crossing the ruggedly imposing Selkirk Mountains, where 15 metres of snow can accumulate in ­winter and avalanches thunder down the surrounding slopes, the Rogers Pass ­highway was one of the most ­challenging segments of the entire 7,821-kilometre Trans-­Canada project. It took five years to build and cost $40 million (about $965 million in today’s dollars).

 

https://www.timescol...ng-feat-5644076



#130 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 02 February 2023 - 04:14 PM

Vancouver City Council unanimously approved today the framework for the planning process for creating the Granville Entertainment District (GED) area plan for guiding revitalization and future redevelopments.

 

 

 

https://dailyhive.co...buses-relocated



#131 Mike K.

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Posted 02 February 2023 - 05:22 PM

I feel like we’ve been through this a few times already.
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#132 AllseeingEye

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Posted 02 February 2023 - 09:21 PM

This issue was discussed to death when I lived in Vancouver in the 80's; again the 90's and just for fun once more in the early 00's. I did a pre Christmas stealth shopping trip to my old haunts in mid December. The Granville strip was looking just as "meh" and tired and bereft of ideas and energy as it did 20, 30 and 35 years ago. Only now with more street folks gradually bleeding over from the DTES......

 

If they think plonking down a modern tower is going to cure what ails it city father's will be sorely disappointed. Its gonna take a lot more vision than simply erecting a couple of high-rises and calling it a day.....


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#133 Matt R.

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Posted 02 February 2023 - 11:51 PM

I couldn’t believe it when I discovered The Lennox had removed their chicken strips from the menu, and now they are just called “The Len” or “The Ox” or something. Here is some low hanging fruit the city could address in order to improve things on the strip immediately.

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Posted 20 February 2024 - 04:18 AM

The City of Vancouver has accused three B.C. companies involved in rehabilitation work on the Granville Street Bridge of failures that are now damaging some sections of structural steel.

 

According to a recent lawsuit filed in the Supreme Court of B.C., the city completed a rehabilitation project on the bridge from 2019 to 2021 that included replacing some expansion joints connecting parts of the bridge, installing rubber troughs underneath some of the expansion joints to protect structural steel from water run-off and re-coating the structural steel beneath the expansion joints.

 

The city states that Associated Engineering was responsible for design and inspection of the work, Graham Infrastructure was the general contractor and Ross Rex Industrial Painters was the subcontractor for the painting work.

 

The city alleges there are several defects and/or deficiencies in the completed work, including not applying caulking, not applying penetrating sealer correctly and installing faulty rubber troughs that allow salty water to spill onto structural steel below.

 

 

https://www.timescol...on-work-8326117


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#135 max.bravo

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Posted 21 February 2024 - 01:57 AM

Someone’s gonna lose their expensive rubber stamp over this one.
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