25933 replies to this topic

[Mike K.]

people seem to be able to miss parked cars that appear off and on in the curb travel lane all over town. i'm sure they will be fine. its a 30kmh zone. unless there is once-in-100-years blinding fog or smoke or snow that reduces visibility to 5m they will see it.

People crash into police vehicles with emergency lights on when they’re parked partially in a travel lane.

What they’ve done there invites trouble. It’s dangerous. And ultimately on the hook are Victoria taxpayers.

[Victoria Watcher]

what about the parkettes on fort and bike park areas or construction trailers or all the new street patios.  deadly too?

 

it's hardly a busy or visually-challenging area.  the street is dead-straight.  and again it's 30kmh as has been forever.

 

 

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 24 January 2021 - 08:59 AM.

[Mike K.]

The travel lanes do not jut around them, and from what I’ve seen, they are all on one-way streets.

Here you’re forcing vehicles to jut over into the path of oncoming vehicles. It’s dangerous to create such a scenario.

[Victoria Watcher]

Here you’re forcing vehicles to jut over into the path of oncoming vehicles. It’s dangerous to create such a scenario.

 

you must avoid those counterflow lanes in vancouver.  or two-way left turn lanes.  or curves in roads.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 24 January 2021 - 09:01 AM.

[Mike K.]

Luckily our roads don’t have the level of poor design being exhibited here. This situation is unique.

But we do have a recent realignment of Jacklin Road I can point to, which is now adorned with tire marks from vehicles hitting the curb by drivers realizing too late that the road realigns suddenly to the left, but in that instance it does not force vehicles to cut into what was the oncoming lane. You can see the tire marks for yourself.

[Victoria Watcher]

Luckily our roads don’t have the level of poor design being exhibited here. This situation is unique.

But we do have a recent realignment of Jacklin Road I can point to, which is now adorned with tire marks from vehicles hitting the curb by drivers realizing too late that the road realigns suddenly to the left, but in that instance it does not force vehicles to cut into what was the oncoming lane. You can see the tire marks for yourself.

is it a straight stretch for 100m in one direction (to a stop) and hundreds in the other that's extremely wide and is 30kmh?

[sebberry]

It's not that bad... it basically just looks like the other end of Cook Street now...

 

https://vibrantvicto...770#entry258770

[Nparker]

Proving that insanity doesn't stop at the Saanich-Victoria border.

[rmpeers]

The travel lanes do not jut around them, and from what I’ve seen, they are all on one-way streets.

Here you’re forcing vehicles to jut over into the path of oncoming vehicles. It’s dangerous to create such a scenario.

Didn't they sort of do the same thing on Burdett?

[Mike K.]

I don’t know what that pertains to. What did they do?

[Victoria Watcher]

where they blocked it to cars for bike lanes.

[Nparker]

where they blocked it to cars for bike lanes.

That could be dozens of streets.

[Mike K.]

I’m not familiar with those charges at all. I know Vancouver is closed at McClure, though.

[Daveyboy]

The proper thing to do is to lease a commercial space near the park and provide services from there, not this “tent” that is jutting out into a travel lane.

I firmly believe that this was done in order to get a reaction.  Once the outcry becomes loud enough, COV will announce a "solution" to the problem that people wouldn't have accepted initially.  Just part of their MO.

[Nparker]

I firmly believe that this was done in order to get a reaction...

Of course it was. This is now the modus operandi of at least half of council to punish the citizens for electing a moderate like Stephen Andrew.

[mbjj]

I see Isitt is now the Fairfield liaison person. Heaven help us. 

[JimV]

What commercial spaces are there near the park except for those basically on Cook Street (e.g. the parking lot behind the drugstore?)  I can’t imagine the owners would see a few months rent compensation for the inevitable damage to their businesses that would occur.

[Daveyboy]

I see Isitt is now the Fairfield liaison person. Heaven help us. 

Hey, Gorge Burnside got Dubow so don't gloat......

[rmpeers]

I don’t know what that pertains to. What did they do?

There's an "advisory" (as in, "I advise you not to drive there") stretch where it appears to be 2-way vehicle traffic but with only 1 lane.

[Nparker]

I see Isitt is now the Fairfield liaison person. Heaven help us. 

 

Hey, Gorge Burnside got Dubow so don't gloat......

There's no way these appointments aren't meant as a big middle finger to their respective neighbourhoods.