Posted Nov 5, 2014, 3:53 PM
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Location: North Vancouver
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This plan is ridiculous. Nanaimo needs two terminals. Departure bay doesn't have the road capacity for 3-4 times the trucks, and duke point's terminal doesn't have near the capacity required for the amount of foot passengers that currently go through Departure Bay. They just spent 100s of millions upgrading the Departure Bay terminal in the last few years, so I would assume that they would close Duke point, but that route is mostly trucks, I'm going to guess Nanaimo isnt going to be too happy with 3-4 times the trucks going through the city, also making the duke point connector completely useless.
The Massey Tunnel would be even more of an absolute disaster. Currently, the Departure Bay Horseshoe Bay route is used for personal vehicles going to Vancouver, Burnaby, West and North Van, and the Duke Point, Tsawwassen route is mostly used for trucks and people going to Surrey and further East or to the States. This plan would force all Vancouver, West/North Van bound traffic through the Massey Tunnel and the Burnaby traffic either through the tunnel or over Pattullo or Alex Fraser. You think the tunnel traffic is bad now, if they go through with this the 10 lane Massey replacement might actually be warranted.
Another stupid part of that plan is the Departure Bay, Horseshoe Bay run is the shortest and most convenient route, 1 hour 35 minutes vs. 2 hours for the Duke Point, Tsawwassen route, and a Tsawwassen, Departure Bay route would be 2 hours as well.
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