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[Mike K.]

They leveled terrain, raised terrain, re-aligned the highway, handled streams and creeks, built an exit and entrance with a highway underpass and expropriated a number of properties entirely or partially. It was a sincere feat, by most highway building standards in Canada. The TCH here between Saanich and Langford is as good as it gets on Vancouver Island, and is more like what you see on the prairies (maybe more superficial blasting, but that’s no biggie).

[dasmo]

There is no land assembly of 42 homes on Battleford. Maybe we should warn the folks that might buy one of these soon to be built town houses that there property is at risk of being taken. https://www.realtor....saanich-gateway

[Mike K.]

Any property alongside a highway or major road is at risk of being expropriated, that’s been the golden rule since we started building highways, and to make room for highways!

You’d never be able to drive to your house if it wasn’t for expropriation over generations.

[dasmo]

Any property alongside a highway or major road is at risk of being expropriated, that’s been the golden rule since we started building highways, and to make room for highways!

You’d never be able to drive to your house if it wasn’t for expropriation over generations.

I’ll take that as an agreement that to build an 8 lane highway, from town to Langford, the government would need to take people’s private property and you think that’s ok.

[Mike K.]

Do I think it’s ok? It’s how society functions. That’s like asking if I think it’s ok that delivery vehicles produce emissions. Well how else would they deliver the goods we need to live? By bicycle? Cyclists consume more food, meaning we need to produce more food to feed them, and that entails more emissions. Delivery by bicycle would also be slower and less efficient, so you’d have to pay more for everything you consume.

You benefit from land expropriation like everyone else does. Every time you drive out of your house, that’s thanks to someone else dedicating (giving up) private land for roads, or having their land expropriated. The best you can do is to be thankful that you have maintained roads to use.

[dasmo]

Then when the government decides to expropriate your land and give it back to those they expropriated it from before it should be all good with that logic…..

Government doesn’t even fix my potholes so no…. Not maintained even.


If they started an 8 lane abomination it would cripple my access for a decade and in the end only allow for more cars to spill into alll the ancillary roads that are all at capacity now making this entire area a total gong show.

[Mike K.]

Yup. I’ll get paid, and move on. That’s how eminent domain works.

[Mike K.]

If they started an 8 lane abomination it would cripple my access for a decade and in the end only allow for more cars to spill into alll the ancillary roads that are all at capacity now making this entire area a total gong show.

Finally we get some honesty out of you

[dasmo]

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Edited by dasmo, 08 May 2026 - 07:06 AM.

[dasmo]

It wouldn’t be just me….

Edited by dasmo, 08 May 2026 - 07:07 AM.

[Mike K.]

Let’s try to be more sincere and not waste others’ time. If you’re just trolling, why?

Although I think you’re sincere about the impact of construction on you. Yes it might suck for a bit, but if you are sincere in wanting to be a positive contributor to society then you’ll have to take your turn at the podium eventually. Or, you can proactively move and sell your property to someone who won’t mind.

[dasmo]

Because I don’t agree… I am trolling?
It’s not only the construction…. You are trolling me. It’s taken me this long just to get you to acknowledge that land expropriation would need to happen.

This thing isn’t going to happen anyway.


I’m out.

[Mike K.]

I didn’t say it would need to happen, in fact I said the best solution is four lanes in and out at McKenzie. You’re being very unfair and manipulating a lot of what I’m saying.

Cheers.

[LJ]

It's taking them 3 years, or more, to widen the shoulder for a bus lane, can you just imagine how long 8 lanes would take?

[FogPub]

It’s not only the construction…. You are trolling me. It’s taken me this long just to get you to acknowledge that land expropriation would need to happen.

Am I to read this as saying you'd be one of those directly impacted by said expropriation?

 

If yes, from what I gather they pay fair market value.

 

If no, why do you care?

 

As for the construction, I'd far rather be delayed by a construction project for the public benefit than by all the private for-profit construction projects currently screwing up our roads and sidewalks.

Edited by FogPub, 08 May 2026 - 11:52 PM.

[Mike K.]

It's taking them 3 years, or more, to widen the shoulder for a bus lane, can you just imagine how long 8 lanes would take?

Another three years, presumably.

[Mike K.]

If yes, from what I gather they pay fair market value.

Which is a lot more than the market might pay. Not a lot of people jump for the opportunity to buy a home alongside a freeway.

There are properties trying to sell along Sooke’s new highway expansion and they’re stuck in the mud. One guy thinks his lot is worth $30 million and just perennially keeps it on MLS, I think, maybe, to justify that whatever the government paid him for a section of land they might have expropriated was worth millions more than what they paid him? I don’t know, but it’s an odd duck listing.

[dasmo]

Am I to read this as saying you'd be one of those directly impacted by said expropriation?

 

No, I'm not an idiot.... 

 

Not engaging with the rest. 

[Mike K.]

It could be worse. You could be advocating for commuter rail.