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Originally Posted by Zassk
I'm curious, why would you advocate more lanes in one direction than another? Isn't that really bad long-term planning? Any car that travels one way, has to travel back at some point. Unless we are witnessing a permanent migration pattern to Surrey or something. :-)
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I'm noticing that in the AM, there definitely is a peak direction flow, while in the PM there isn't really a peak direction anymore.
It's like Person A goes from Surrey to New West to work from 8:00 - 5:00 PM
Person A crosses around 7:30 AM, and returns around 5:30 PM
Person B goes from Surrey to New West for recreation/errands from 4:30 - 6:00 PM.
There's never really any backup eastbound on the Port Mann in the AM, while westbound is backed up AM and PM to about 176 Street each day. You can argue that eastbound serves commuter traffic and recreational traffic more than westbound does.
I hope that makes sense. There's arguably a stronger demand to travel towards vancouver of the course of the day, while return focuses more in the PM and in the evening off-peak after that.