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Originally Posted by Stingray2004
Unfortunately, that would have escalated the costs of the structure and therein comes the trade-off - basically non-existent shoulders. As an aside, during the Monday afternoon commute accidents in both directions resulted in just one-lane in each direction with up to 1 1/2 hour delays in each direction.
In any event, Stone's comment comes across as an off-the-cuff, ill-considered, ill thought out trial balloon. Just does not make any logical sense. For example, the sidewalks are on the OTHER side of the cable stringers. No room to expand there. Period.
In order to go to 7-lanes, one would need to decrease each of the 6 lanes to 11-feet (- 6 ft). Then add in the 1-foot right hand shoulders on each side plus the 3-foot median area (5 feet altogether) and bingo - another purported 7th lane at 11-feet - with no median whatsoever. Again, Stone threw out a ridiculous red herring here IMHO.
Just ain't gonna happen IMHO.
Again, the counter-flow proposal also comes across as a bit of a hair-brained scheme from my perspective as well.
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The counter-flow proposal makes no sense what-so-ever and isn't possible unless you really narrow the lanes and sacrifice safety.
Plus to me, the biggest issue is the 91C + SFPR intersection. It's a really congested and dangerous intersection that requires urgent attention and there are no plans to even look at upgrading the one narrow left-turn lane on the connector to get on the NB on-ramp.
Bear in mind that North Delta's Liberal MLA narrowly defeated the incumbent and the Libs got crushed in South Delta by Vicki Huntington.