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[On the Level]

 

Over the coming months, the district will assess the impact of the various traffic calming measures to determine if more should be implemented. Haynes predicts the changes will slow traffic on the overall route and add travel time which he hopes will result in more drivers opting to take the highway.

 

 

The problem is getting to the highway through the 5 way stop at Interurban and it's only going to get worse as they keep adding onto Camosun.  They could bypass that mess of an intersection (and that area) if they connected Charlton to Interurban.  

[mbjj]

Yesterday we were driving along Dallas Road towards Ross Bay. Usually we turn left up Memorial Crescent to come up to Fairfield, but I guess that is another bit of "road diet". The road is now non-existent. You can only come down it towards the ocean. Oh well, more carbon emissions from me I guess as we had to go farther than we wanted. 

[Mike K.]

But of course. Why wouldn’t it have been closed to traffic. Now St. Charles will see a ride in volume, and it’s a tight street to begin with.

[marks_28]

Yesterday we were driving along Dallas Road towards Ross Bay. Usually we turn left up Memorial Crescent to come up to Fairfield, but I guess that is another bit of "road diet". The road is now non-existent. You can only come down it towards the ocean. Oh well, more carbon emissions from me I guess as we had to go farther than we wanted.

Is this a permanent change though? I cycle past there a few times each week and I assumed they were doing utilities work along there that was part of the construction work at Clover Point. One lane had been closed off on Memorial, but I had assumed that was just due to the utility work. But I’m not certain..

[Barrrister]

Memorial is open both ways today but the road is narrowed at Dallas to a regular width without the island and slip road. 

[mbjj]

It looked permanent yesterday. Wow, that narrow bit is very narrow to accommodate two lanes. I hope it is both ways though. 

[Barrrister]

Not sure that it is any worse than St Charles that has parking on both sides of the street while this street is parking only on one side.

[mbjj]

Yes that bit of St. Charles is pretty tight. I will have to investigate Memorial Crescent when I'm next out that way. 

[Jackerbie]

The Mile Zero triangle at Douglas and Dallas is slated to be the next intersection upgrade, pending approval of the 2021 budget.

[Nparker]

The irony of this expenditure while BHP is being laid waste to, can't be ignored.

[FogPub]

The Mile Zero triangle at Douglas and Dallas is slated to be the next intersection upgrade, pending approval of the 2021 budget.

That .jpg file isn't loading for me.  Dare I ask what they're planning to do?

[Victoria Watcher]

eliminate the north branch of the road so that you can walk to the triangle from the rest of the park without crossing a street.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 10 December 2020 - 05:06 AM.

[rjag]

What a total waste of money. The City is literally collapsing into chaos and they are frigging fiddling while it burns. 

[Jackerbie]

What a total waste of money. The City is literally collapsing into chaos and they are frigging fiddling while it burns. 

 

Draft budget, so there's still opportunity for public input. Details here: https://engage.victo...1-draft-budget 

[Nparker]

Draft budget, so there's still opportunity for public input...

      The same way my public input was considered regarding the massacre of Vancouver Street?

[marks_28]

^Well input was considered, seeing how it was originally supposed to go up Cook St

[marks_28]

The Mile Zero triangle at Douglas and Dallas is slated to be the next intersection upgrade, pending approval of the 2021 budget.

I actually think this is a great idea. What’s the point of having it? Just to allow cars an easier right turn on to Douglas? That whole triangle (and similarly the park north of Southgate) has essentially been chopped off from the rest of the park. Why not try and connect it again, while preserving the original mile loop as part of a pedestrian and cycle path.

[rjag]

I actually think this is a great idea. What’s the point of having it? Just to allow cars an easier right turn on to Douglas? That whole triangle (and similarly the park north of Southgate) has essentially been chopped off from the rest of the park. Why not try and connect it again, while preserving the original mile loop as part of a pedestrian and cycle path.

 

I would agree to the first part and pedestrian access, however I would ask if this would be the highest and best use of scarce taxpayer funds in the middle of the worst economic downturn this City has seen in generations? Pet projects like this are what you pull off the shelf and blow off the dust when times are good. There is zero benefit to the community at large, that money could be better spent repairing a few blocks of potholes or fixing sidewalks or improving the areas that have been devastated by all the social housing over in the Burnside Gorge neighborhoods

Edited by rjag, 10 December 2020 - 10:13 AM.

[Nparker]

...that money could be better spent repairing a few blocks of potholes or fixing sidewalks or improving the areas that have been devastated by all the social housing over in the Burnside Gorge neighborhoods...

Or could be put towards the multi-million dollar costs to remediate Beacon Hill Park once the squatters are finally evicted.

[Mike K.]

No word of a lie, as I was driving into downtown via Blanshard, two pedestrians were playing frogger with actual traffic flow near Hillside, north of the Hillside intersection. Cars were trying not to hit these guys are they were prancing across the lanes, 10 meters from the intersection.

 

100 meters further into town along the next block crews working on the installation of the mid-block pedestrian crossing.