49 replies to this topic

[Victoria Watcher]

BC has no laws in place for busways that cross other streets. A whole new set of laws would be required. It’s not going to happen.

Build an alternate highway into Sooke. There is plenty of land and a couple routes.

[splashflash]

When money runs low, activist governments rev up the legislative option. When the NDP likely wins in Oct, expect this to be the more viable option.

[Mike K.]

The most meaningful thing to do is to get buses well out of the way of cars, so buses stop impeding traffic flow.

[Mike K.]

BC has no laws in place for busways that cross other streets. A whole new set of laws would be required. It’s not going to happen.

Build an alternate highway into Sooke. There is plenty of land and a couple routes.

I want to think, that bridging the Sooke and Malahat politically was not a mistake. We can expect more focus on roads between Cowichan and Sooke. I mean that’s the low hanging fruit for the MLA of a riding that is not connected by public road, right?

[Mike K.]

Look at how massive that ROW is!

Get the buses off this section of Highway 14 and give them their own lane(s). You don’t even need a two-way lane, just switch up the direction on time of day if you need to, but I don’t think eastbound is an issue that requires a dedicated lane.

[Victoria Watcher]

Just build this secondary highway:

 

 

 

 

[Mike K.]

Yes that would be just fine.

[Mike K.]

Highway is shut down in Metchosin along the 4100-block. A single vehicle crash, roll-over.

[Mike K.]

Police have re-opened the highway.

[Mike K.]

A vehicle plowed into a hydro pole on Sooke at Church in Sooke, this AM at around 6, knocking out power to over 6,000 hydro customers in Sooke.

This is the only intersection in and out of Sooke. So yeah, chaotic this morning.

Sooke had dealt with its infrastructure investments in about the least practical way imaginable for western standards, it looks like.