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[Victoria Watcher]

what's currently wrong with 6mr?  

[Cats4Hire]

what's currently wrong with 6mr?  

not enough million dollar walls or trees in the middle of it I guess

[Mike K.]

Mayor Screech doesn’t like people using it to travel through his community, it what it sounds like.

[Victoria Watcher]

it's literally 600m long from the tch to the colwood strip.  just leave it alone.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 25 October 2019 - 08:19 AM.

[DustMagnet]

not enough million dollar walls or trees in the middle of it I guess

 

It's not the trees so much as the city gardeners parked in the medians, traffic cones pushing cars to the road edge, every second day.

 

 

it's literally 600m long from the tch to the colwood strip.  just leave it alone.

 

It's not the length, it's how you use it.

 

Personally I'd like to see if there is a way to improve turning left off Atkins onto Six Mile without ballsing it up, but I don't know if that's practical.

[Matt in Langford]

How about a roundabout at Six Mile Road @ Atkins?

[DustMagnet]

^ That's an idea that seems to come around periodically.

[laconic]

With the Bay Street bridge open two way this morning the months long traffic jam at Esquimalt/Tyee has disappeared.

[sebberry]

With the Bay Street bridge open two way this morning the months long traffic jam at Esquimalt/Tyee has disappeared.

 

You can't build (your road network) your way out of congestion, but you can create more of it by closing roads, eh?

[DustMagnet]

You can't build (your road network) your way out of congestion, but you can create more of it by closing roads, eh?

Or repurposing part of the roadway for different modes of transportation.   

[AllseeingEye]

With the Bay Street bridge open two way this morning the months long traffic jam at Esquimalt/Tyee has disappeared.

It was bee-yoo-ti-ful this morning maaaaaan! Drove right up to and through the light at Tyee and Esquimalt at 8:10 this morning, total elapsed commute time from our front door to the office was about 9.5 minutes. I forgot what that was like. I'm (almost) looking forward to getting back aboard the # 14 bus to resume that normal 14 minutes or so door to door run. That's assuming of course that it actually shows up at my stop.....

[Cats4Hire]

Someone hit a deer and got rear ended on PatBay near Elk Lake Drive delaying traffic in both directions https://twitter.com/...909266012004353

[FogPub]

Paper says this ended up as a six-car crash; the deer got hit in the northbound lanes (two cars involved here) and was bounced across to the southbound lanes where another four cars collided.

 

What's incredible is that the deer, having been hit twice, apparently left the scene under its own power.

[Mike K.]

Yes, that happens often. It will run off if it can due to shock but will die somewhere from the trauma of the collision. A deer in that state is actually quite dangerous.

[Mike K.]

Highway 4 in the Kennedy Lake area has been shut down indefinitely due to a washout.

This means Tofino/Ucluelet are completely cut off from civilization for those reliant on road transport.

[Bernard]

Highway 4 in the Kennedy Lake area has been shut down indefinitely due to a washout.

This means Tofino/Ucluelet are completely cut off from civilization for those reliant on road transport.

Where did you get this?   Is this something new since the washout in November?

[Mike K.]

Some Malahat road report twitter account linked a Global article during today’s closure, and quoted it as an indefinite closure.

Now all of the content is gone. So yeah it could have referred to an older washout or Global put out a piece that was inaccurate then retracted it.

[sebberry]

Highway 4 in the Kennedy Lake area has been shut down indefinitely due to a washout.

This means Tofino/Ucluelet are completely cut off from civilization for those reliant on road transport.

A friend re-posted this video:

https://www.facebook...56768142226709/

[Victoria Watcher]

A massive “chain reaction” pileup on an interstate in Virginia early Sunday left multiple people with injuries ranging from minor to life-threatening, authorities said.

 

At least 63 vehicles crashed in the westbound lanes of I-64 near Williamsburg at 7:51 a.m., Virginia State Police wrote on Twitter after earlier saying 35 cars were involved in the wreck. At the time of the crash, police said ice was present on the Queens Creek Bridge and heavy fog covered the area.

 

https://www.foxnews....rginia-injuries

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 22 December 2019 - 11:14 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

1st post here!!! Hello everyone! I live in North Oak Bay and commute to Keating and most of my business is downtown.

There will always be piecemeal work done on our transport infrastructure as long as there are 14 or more municipalities at the table. Why would View Royal invest millions just so someone from Sooke can shave 2 minutes off their commute to Victoria?

Until we see all the little kingdoms get reined in and told to work together there will never be an appropriate solution.

Each municipality working on its own, will only have the interests of their residents.

 

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