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#241 Nparker

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Posted 08 December 2021 - 12:20 PM

...The obvious positive impact of reducing motor vehicle congestion, making it possible for cyclists and pedestrians, to safely navigate Victoria streets would be immense

It will be especially positive for the drivers in Oak Bay and Gordon Head who currently experience congestion on CoV streets.



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Posted 08 December 2021 - 12:24 PM

The letter writer seems not to realize that there is no longer anything even close to a "one or two hour Colwood Crawl".

Indeed, the transit times are now typical of any highway of the same distance at rush hour ... in the neighborhood of 30 minutes tops from Uptown to the Juan De Fuca Arena area.

 

With fabricated "facts", such letters don't really mean any more than the letter writer getting their name in the paper.


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#243 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 27 April 2022 - 07:06 AM

A Metchosin resident is proposing a unique way to alleviate commuter traffic in the Esquimalt and Colwood area, suggesting gondolas could hold the solution.

 

Geoff Pearce has been studying the traffic flow in the region for years, calling it hard to get around.

 

“Right now the roads (and) highways are all congested. There needs to be an alternative opportunity,” Pearce said.

 

His dream and vision would see a gondola soaring over the Esquimalt Harbour.

 

The commuter model has been used around the world in places like Portland and London.

 

 

https://www.cheknews...raffic-1017107/

 

 

 

Esquimalt Mayor Barb Desjardins said she is open to the idea to help alleviate some of the traffic.

 

“We have 7,000 people who come to that base everyday and go home. Some of them live in Esquimalt, but many of them live in the West Shore because it’s currently the most affordable place to live,” Desjardins said. “They have to get here somehow.”


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#244 Mike K.

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Posted 27 April 2022 - 08:28 AM

Maybe we could do what the rest of the world does, and build a bridge to create another corridor between the core and the West Shore.


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#245 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 27 April 2022 - 08:29 AM

Will. Never. Happen.

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Posted 27 April 2022 - 08:31 AM

100%. I. Concur.


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#247 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 27 April 2022 - 08:40 AM

Elon has a 3.0 boring machine coming out.

#248 Mike K.

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Posted 27 April 2022 - 08:42 AM

Ah, yes. Very good.


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Posted 27 April 2022 - 08:43 AM

I loaned Geoff Pearce $40 when I was 14 or 15 so that he could buy a transmission for his '46 Chev.

 

It was my life savings. I earned the money cutting lawns. I was saving to buy my first jalopy.

 

He didn't pay me back. It wiped me out. I had to start all over from scratch.

 

Best $40 I ever spent. I never loaned money after that.


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Posted 27 April 2022 - 08:57 AM

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Posted 27 April 2022 - 08:59 AM

People have no understanding of the kind of yard size you’d need at the downtown end to store 5 or more trains.

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Posted 27 April 2022 - 09:03 AM

no idea if our geography works for a tunnel, or if the boring machine economics work, but that's a nifty solution that will also never happen.



#253 dasmo

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Posted 27 April 2022 - 09:41 AM

no idea if our geography works for a tunnel, or if the boring machine economics work, but that's a nifty solution that will also never happen.

It does not. 



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Posted 27 April 2022 - 09:46 AM

People have no understanding of the kind of yard size you’d need at the downtown end to store 5 or more trains.

I'm sure it's doable. Takes a lot to store cars too. There used to be Trams going all through town. We could also do these and pave over the rails since they killed it for town anyway... https://www.ibtimes....vehicle-1625186



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Posted 27 April 2022 - 09:47 AM

More doable than a gondola over the harbour. 


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Posted 27 April 2022 - 09:52 AM

I loaned Geoff Pearce $40 when I was 14 or 15 so that he could buy a transmission for his '46 Chev.

 

It was my life savings. I earned the money cutting lawns. I was saving to buy my first jalopy.

 

He didn't pay me back. It wiped me out. I had to start all over from scratch.

 

Best $40 I ever spent. I never loaned money after that.

 

Seems like every generation learns that lesson the hard way.

 

Sold an item once to a friend and his cheque bounced. Wasn't the only rubber cheque he wrote so he left town. Five years later I get a card in the mail with a draft for the amount I was owed along with an apology.  I framed the card. Every once in a while someone makes good on their mistakes. Perhaps Geoff will read this and send you the $40.


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Posted 27 April 2022 - 07:33 PM

I never lend money, if somebody I know needs money I will give it to them, when their needs are met they can do the same for someone else.


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Posted 28 April 2022 - 07:25 PM

People have no understanding of the kind of yard size you’d need at the downtown end to store 5 or more trains.

You don't store them downtown, just like Vancouver doesn't store the SkyTrains downtown ... rather they store them way out in the south-eastern reaches of Burnaby.

 

Lots of room to store pretty much anything out Colwood/Langford way.



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Posted 28 April 2022 - 07:49 PM

Strange days ... you get press, mayors comments, and comments from Canada's west coast naval headquarters for suggesting that some level of government build a gondola on the edge of one of the (if not the) windiest straights in the Pacific Northwest?

 

I gotta start coming up with some of these kinds of theories, and getting my name into the paper.

 

If the potential for brutal wind storms doesn't break the back of this ridiculous idea, then the Base Press Officer certainly did when he alluded to the fact that likely the Admiral himself quite certainly wouldn't be letting folks sail over top of (or even close to) a bit less than a third of Canadas entire warship fleet.



#260 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 28 April 2022 - 07:53 PM

You don't store them downtown, just like Vancouver doesn't store the SkyTrains downtown ... rather they store them way out in the south-eastern reaches of Burnaby.

 

Lots of room to store pretty much anything out Colwood/Langford way.

 

So you are going to double-track it all and have empty trains run back out after the morning rush, and run in empty around 3:30pm, just for storage sake?   Cities with big commuter train networks (New York, Vancouver, Toronto) usually park the trains downtown over the mid-day.


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