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#1301 Bingo

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Posted 31 October 2018 - 05:52 AM

The reason more people don’t live on salt spring is water. You can’t get it so you can’t build.
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Because salt spring is a nice place to live, housing is cheaper, and there aren’t a lot of great jobs.

There are many, many people who commute to Victoria and Duncan during the work week.
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So if water is an issue then a bridge to Saltspring might not mean an increase in people living there, but it would mean that the people who are there and commute to Duncan or Victoria will have less time on the road.

It would also allow folks to nip over to the island more often for a meal in some of the great eateries.


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#1302 sdwright.vic

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Posted 31 October 2018 - 05:59 AM

Or a water pipe from the island could be part of said bridge?

Edited by sdwright.vic, 31 October 2018 - 06:00 AM.

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#1303 shoeflack

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Posted 31 October 2018 - 08:27 AM

So if water is an issue then a bridge to Saltspring might not mean an increase in people living there, but it would mean that the people who are there and commute to Duncan or Victoria will have less time on the road.

It would also allow folks to nip over to the island more often for a meal in some of the great eateries.

 

But again, that barrier is one of the reasons why people who are already on Salt Spring like it so much. It keeps the Islands rural and low population. If you make access to the Gulf Islands easier with a bridge, then more people will move there, which is what existing Islanders are fighting.

 

At the end of the day, it's really just the same argument as people who don't want higher density in James Bay. The whole notion of keeping a community the same as it currently it. Don't forget, Salt Springers didn't even want to become their own municipality...far higher likelihood that happens before any bridge connecting SSI to the big Island.

 

And to bring it all back to the topic at hand, this is why it'd be far, far easier to get he support to go through the watershed for a Malahat alternative than to bridge the Gulf Islands.


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#1304 Bingo

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Posted 06 November 2018 - 10:12 PM

Leave the speed limits the way they are. The increase in accidents is likely due to distracted driving.

 

Transportation Minister Claire Trevena is rolling back speed  limits by 10 kilometres an hour on 15 sections of B.C. highway, including three on Vancouver Island.

The move partly reverses a 2014 decision by the former Liberal government to increase speed limits on 33 sections and 1,300 kilometres of rural highway.

“Some highways have seen an alarming increase in speed-related accidents,” Trevena said. “On Highway 19 between Parksville and Campbell River, serious speed accidents have jumped by a third.”

The government plans to lower the speed limit on that section of Highway 19 to 110 km/h from 120 km/h and reduce the limit on the Bloedel-to-Sayward section to 90 km/h from 100 km/h.

The speed limit will drop to 80 km/h from 90 km/h on Highway 1 from Cowichan Bay to Nanaimo.

https://www.timescol...shes-1.23488471

 


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#1305 DustMagnet

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Posted 15 November 2018 - 02:38 PM

Small fire near the summit: https://www.timescol...mmit-1.23499548



#1306 nerka

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Posted 15 November 2018 - 05:10 PM

Leave the speed limits the way they are. The increase in accidents is likely due to distracted driving.

Parksville to Campbell River is already lowered as of about 6 days ago



#1307 Mike K.

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Posted 15 November 2018 - 05:20 PM

When I drove that highway on Sunday it was still 120. Maybe they lowered it on Monday or Tuesday?


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Posted 15 November 2018 - 05:43 PM

Parksville to Campbell River is already lowered as of about 6 days ago


That’s a shame as that was a proper speed for that road design.
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#1309 Brantastic

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Posted 15 November 2018 - 06:23 PM

The posted speed limit was 110 when I went past Parksville on Tuesday morning. Everyone went 120+ regardless.

#1310 rjag

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Posted 15 November 2018 - 07:01 PM

The posted speed limit was 110 when I went past Parksville on Tuesday morning. Everyone went 120+ regardless.


Yup because that’s the 85th percentile
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Posted 15 November 2018 - 08:15 PM

Yup because that’s the 85th percentile

 

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#1312 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 09 January 2019 - 09:41 AM

https://www.vicnews....to-the-malahat/

 

Province addressing need for emergency alternative to the Malahat

Alternate route to be part of new Vancouver Island transportation strategy to decrease congestion


Edited by Victoria Watcher, 09 January 2019 - 09:44 AM.


#1313 rjag

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Posted 09 January 2019 - 09:48 AM

https://www.vicnews....to-the-malahat/

 

Province addressing need for emergency alternative to the Malahat

Alternate route to be part of new Vancouver Island transportation strategy to decrease congestion

 

Oh great another NDP study


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#1314 Cassidy

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Posted 09 January 2019 - 01:39 PM

A temporary emergency route? (which is what the study is for apparently).

Easy!

 

South Shawingan Lake Road to Goldstream Heights, all the way to the end of Goldstream Heights where a "new" road would hook-up to the Niagara Main, which would spit you out in Goldstream Village.

 

Pave and widen the section of the Niagara Main folks would have to use (which is about 5 miles worth), and you're done like dinner.

 

Never happen of course, because it would put traffic in the CRD watershed.

Completely different from big cities in the U.S. ... some of which not only have highways through their watershed, but also let folks freely fish in them!


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#1315 spanky123

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Posted 09 January 2019 - 03:34 PM

The problem is that the opposition isn't going to challeenge you on your choice of routes, they are going to challenge you on the use of cars (ie no routes).



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Posted 09 January 2019 - 03:52 PM

The CRD has already effectively nuked the project by dictating the terms of where any emergency route can, or can't go. The note below released only hours after the release of the intent to perform the study.

 

From the T/C website:

 

Mike Hicks, CRD director for the Juan de Fuca area, is in favour of expanding single-lane bridges along the Pacific Marine Circle Route to improve traffic flow in the event of a detour.

 

Hicks is adamant that a new road not be built through the watershed that feeds the Sooke Reservoir.

 

It's so ridiculous to think that a few CRD Water Commission members can control the entire flow of traffic on the island, with passenger vehicles numbering almost three quarters of a million cars per month.

And all at the mercy of a few folks in the CRD who not only have created an artificial water shortage, but have also created the phony visual that even a single car on the Niagara Main will destroy the entire watershed.

 

It's shameful really, utterly dishonest.


Edited by Cassidy, 09 January 2019 - 03:53 PM.

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#1317 Nparker

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Posted 09 January 2019 - 04:04 PM

Just more evidence that the capital region has some of the worst governance in the province.


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#1318 RFS

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Posted 09 January 2019 - 04:16 PM

Does the CRD have that kind of power?

#1319 Cassidy

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Posted 09 January 2019 - 04:26 PM

Does the CRD have that kind of power?

Maybe not.

The Province has full authority over municipalities (if it chooses to enact it), and the CRD is really nothing more than a group of municipalities sharing common infrastructure support (water, sewer, hospitals, etc).

 

The CRD remains convinced that it controls everything - everywhere within the CRD (obvious thorough what they say, and how they say it) ... but many of their claims of ownership or control have never really been tested.

We saw what the Province did with sewage treatment (ordered the CRD to build a treatment plant if I recall correctly), so there's no doubt the Province can swing a heavy bat if required.

 

Perhaps this emergency by-pass route will be yet another test of the CRD's belief that they exercise complete control everything they can lay their hands on.



#1320 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 09 January 2019 - 06:00 PM

yes the maniacal protection of every bit of land in the watershed is over the top.

the circle route is not a realistic detour mr. hicks. you are talking about a 3-hour detour to avoid a 50m strip of Malahat road where the crash is.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 09 January 2019 - 06:02 PM.

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