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[Victoria Watcher]

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[FogPub]

Anyone got any idea why it's taken three months (and counting) to fix whatever they're fixing at the Fort-Cook intersection?  That lane closure and no-left-turn was supposed to have ended in May.

[Darren14]

With the construction on the Malahat going to wrap up here pretty soon, i'm curious is there any other construction projects planned for the hat in the next couple years? Can we please get a few summers without any for once lol 

[Mike K.]

The design work should be starting on the south Shawnigan overpass, and then there’s the major Goldstream improvement work that’s coming. Hard to believe we’re even going to do it without expanding the lanes.

[JimV]

I had to drive downtown for an event on Thursday.  Navigating Government and Wharf streets was like being trapped in a traffic engineer’s bad acid trip.  Seriously, who is responsible for this grotesque, distracting, dangerous mess?  I’m inclined to blame the odious Sarah Webb, but I doubt even she has that much influence.  It’s probably a vain hope that adults will ever be in charge again of Victoria’s streets, but at least the malls remain basically hassle free if you can maneuver past the various road obstacles on the way there.

[Nparker]

Virtue-signalling and traffic engineering are a bad combination. Traffic backed-up on Tillicum approaching Craigflower yesterday morning.

Just 2 years ago before the road diet:

[Mike K.]

I think they’re getting rid of two through-lanes on Craigflower as well.

[Nparker]

Sadly, I believe that is true. 

[mbjj]

I used to visit a health professional who moved for a short time to Wharf St. She had so many complaints from her clients she moved to Oak Bay....thank god! My husband had to drop me off in the parking lot on lower Wharf as I couldn't walk far. Very dangerous trying to get in and out of there. 

[Mike K.]

Oh man, that stretch is so bad now. Yeesh.

[GaryOak]

Wharf street has always been a god damned mess, so many people trying to rat run through there to get to James Bay. Unless you have somewhere to be on wharf street.i don't know why anyone would take it instead of Douglas or Blanshard.

[GaryOak]

Probably the best solution would be to make wharf a one way street heading south, from at least Yates if not fisgard

Edited by GaryOak, 15 October 2023 - 02:49 PM.

[Mike K.]

Wharf street has always been a god damned mess, so many people trying to rat run through there to get to James Bay. Unless you have somewhere to be on wharf street.i don't know why anyone would take it instead of Douglas or Blanshard.

Nope, it wasn’t always.

It became much, much worse after the bike lane was installed. That created a busy, albeit slow street, into a real complex dog’s breakfast that now has to carry the volume of two streets after they closed Government.

The two realities (before and after) are not even comparable.

[Victoria Watcher]

CAPITAL DAILY:

 

 

Last Tuesday the Huu-ay-aht celebrated the completion of the 76km ​​Bamfield Main Road Reconciliation Project. The First Nations had been calling for years for improvement to the risky unpaved road between Port Alberni and Bamfield. But change came only after a 2019 bus rollover killed two first-year UVic students.

 

The project has taken three years since it was announced, and involves chip-sealing, seal-coat hard surfacing, and drainage improvements to reduce flooding-related closures. BC put in $36M and the Huu-ay-aht contributed $5M.

 

That final cost grew some $10M from the initial estimate, and the project lasted further into 2024 than projected. A strategy for maintaining the new road still needs to be worked out, the Huu-ay-aht announcement said.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 16 October 2023 - 05:47 AM.

[Mike K.]

It’s a dangerous road now with massive ditches. One moment of inattention and you’re going to have a bad day.

[Victoria Watcher]

It’s a dangerous road now with massive ditches. One moment of inattention and you’re going to have a bad day.

 

Don't you just sort of drive down the middle of a road like that though, and only move over when the rare oncoming vehicle is coming?

[Mike K.]

Too many twists and turns to be in the middle.

[FogPub]

Probably the best solution would be to make wharf a one way street heading south, from at least Yates if not fisgard

Sounds good, but where's the corresponding one-way going north?  Not Government St. any more.  Not Douglas.

 

And how does Yates traffic get to the bridge? (going Yates-->Government-->Pandora is not a viable option; that bit can't handle the traffic is has now)

[Darren14]

The design work should be starting on the south Shawnigan overpass, and then there’s the major Goldstream improvement work that’s coming. Hard to believe we’re even going to do it without expanding the lanes.

 

ughhhhh... wasn't aware of of either of those. The South Shawnigan overpass makes me nervous as i make 15-25 round trips per year... 

[Mike K.]

Oh yeah, it could be a huge project. But who knows what the final design will be.

The big delay will be the Goldstream upgrades.