Comments on: One Way Road

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 01:22:02 +0000

Is it just me or does Gateway strike anyone else as a horrible idea from the 50’s brought back to life today, ignoring all modern realities and everything we’ve learned in the past half century?

$4 billion could go a long way to improving the public transit options in the region and really doing something revolutionary and in sync with today’s realities. Instead we get more concrete, more cars, more congestion, and more climate change.

By: keefer79

keefer79 — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 23:36:09 +0000

Good post.
A chuckle so far on page 2 of the document– a picture of an old BC Rail engine with the foretelling caption “Cheakamus Canyon”!

By: ron c.

ron c. — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 23:15:07 +0000

I wouldn’t expect cycling or pedestrian to actor prominently in that report – because those would not be determining factors for the construction of those roads. Remember that bikes and hitchhiking are banned from freeways for safety reasons.
But that doesn’t mean that cycling or pedestrians won’t be acommodated in the plans.

The Border Infrastucture Plan has added cantilevered sidewalks to the west side of the Queensborough Bridge.
Even the Port Mann Twinning project documents posted to the EAO website show a cycling route – marked in green on this plan:

http://www.eao.gov.bc.ca/epic/output/documents/p247/d24665/1189028699536_a472fd1478e9414c83aed4d70a214df5.pdf