Monday, February 28, 2011
Why not four lanes?
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I was driving on Helmcken road the other day and shortly after VGH it goes from four lanes to two lanes and often has very long lines of cars moving at a slow pace. I also noticed that the space is there to make the road four lane all the way to where it merges with Wilkinson. Why not have four lanes all the way there?
I know that Wilkinson would be an issue to four lane to the intersection with Interurban, but there is enough space to make it four lane if you get creative. There are six houses that would need some help because they would be fronting a large street.
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There is a clear demand for the road to be a larger one and the world will not come to an end if you provide better roads within the city. The lack of a larger road means I simply avoid the whole neighbourhood between 3pm and 6pm weekdays. There are restaurants there that do not get business from me because of traffic issues.
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It's not as simple as painting new lines. The cost for the municipality to re-survey, re-engineer, and re-build a road is expensive. A few houses needing "help" is an understatement, the type of red tape that you go through just to have a driveway is a headache.
I appreciate your wanting a better Victoria, we really do need more people to think like you, but it won't get anywhere if you don't think of the big picture.
One of the reasons I raise the issue of expanding this road is because for most of the route there is no issue with existing houses. It is as if Saanich had built the road originally with this in mind. Take a drive down it and take a look at how much space there is for the right of way for most of the way.
There needs to be more thought in this region, especially in Saanich, in how to make traffic move better through the city. Saanich is more than dense enough in population that many more roads should be four lane by now.
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