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Originally Posted by MonctonRad
Accident prompts call for traffic lights near new Moncton Costco
Resident says traffic, speed, and poor visibility make McLaughlin Road-Granite Drive intersection unsafe
Vanessa Blanch · CBC News · Posted: Aug 22, 2019 5:00 AM AT | Last Updated: 5 hours ago
We saw this coming on this forum.
A "backdoor" into Granite Drive and the new Costco was necessary for access and safety issues, but the city did the connection to McLaughlin on the cheap. McLaughlin beyond the TCH is little more than a cowpath (in poor repair), and dumping all this traffic onto that street was bound to be problematic. McLaughlin needs to be widened, repaved and curbed to just beyond Granite, and the province should be expediting a new McLaughlin/TCH interchange to boot.
As the Granite Centre builds out, this problem will only get worse...........
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It looked like all summer they were getting ready to make a turning lane off McLaughlin onto Granite, but it never came to be...this could have helped with some of the speed issues when coming over that hill and someone slows rapidly to turn into Granite.
Granite itself from McLaughlin to Costco is already starting to look "worn" and desperately needs a second layer of asphalt.
Like someone else said the trees on the right corner coming out of Granite onto McLaughlin need to be trimmed back, this is a flood plane there though so it may need more work once the trees are gone.
To me McLaughlin needs to be completely repaved from Morton/Connaught intersection all the way to granite, it's miserable to drive on. Also the sidewalks and bike lanes need extending to at least just past Granite.