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Originally Posted by Gridlock
Im gonna tell you, that driving the new higway to the bridge, that i dont think they solved a single problem for our 3 billion. The new highway has 2 lanes and an hov lane leading up to tne bridge, west bound. Bottleneck. Oh, there are plenty of lanes everywhere else, but with a designed bottleneck. So, we will be back at this again.
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Two points:
One, it's not finished. You don't know how the lane structures will change by then. In fact, wasn't it you bitching in the bridge thread that there would only be seven or eight lanes total on the new bridge and why didn't they make it more? (There WILL be TEN, BTW).
Two: the bridge itself was always the bottleneck... well, not a bottleneck so much as a speed bump: I sat at the top oh Johnson Hill one evening, waiting for a photo, and watched it happen: red tail lights moving smoothly, if a bit slowly, westbound, until ONE pussy clown hit the bottom of the dip - you know, where you go onto the bridge, then you get the bottom of a dip AND a curve all in one, and people panic - jammed on his brakes... and literally a WAVE of bright red flowed up the hill as everyone behind braked as well... and it never recovered. I was there for almost a half hour after that, and it just remained a dead crawl for the rest of that time. It just took that ONE GUY.
So... IF you end up with three lanes feeding into a five-lane bridge, that's still a big improvement, because while it may be a slight bottleneck, at least you'll soon be able to empty that bottleneck a lot smoother.
Edit: in fact, the artist rendering indicates AT LEAST three lanes + HOV on the approach:
Edit2: in fact, here you go: there WILL be full five lanes leading onto the bridge:
http://www.pmh1project.com/Design%20...2020120207.pdf
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152 Street Interchange
• Two new lanes in each direction on Highway 1.
• New four‐lane overpass at 152 Street, providing access to Highway 1
westbound. From 152 Street northbound, traffic reaching the 152 Street
overpass will choose either the local-connection lanes across the Port
Mann Bridge that will connect Coquitlam and Surrey, or through-traffic
lanes that will provide access to Brunette Avenue and points west.
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