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Originally Posted by MrGoodbar
Lions gate bridge has the most fucking stupid concept of a design I've ever seen. I'm not surprised that an accident of this magnitude happened; the two men drew the short stick and got fucked. No dividers? really? Two lanes with a shared middle lane? that's just fucking stupid. With the growing number of people in the city, the bridge is way over capacity at peak hours.
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The LGB was a privately built bridge funded by the Guiness family (yes, the family that makes the beer) at the persuasion of a man called Alfred Taylor in the early 1930s to connect Vancouver to West Vancouver. It was meant to be a two lane tolled bridge but due to the population boom, the lanes were adjusted to three. In 1963, the tolls were removed and the provincial government purchased it from the family for the same price they built it for.
http://www.insidevancouver.ca/2012/0...s-gate-bridge/
So it wasn't exactly conceived of and built by the government. Bridges are expensive to build and today probably require lengthy public consultation to even happen. Besides, how many people actually die/crash on that bridge?
edit: Found my answer. According to ICBC (2006), LGB is a high crash location. However, that goes for many of the other bridges as well: Knight St, Alex Fraser, and the Patullo - two of which have dividers and one does not. Also, many highway locations appeared on that list. It just suggests to me that these high traffic locations/arteries mean that people need to pay more attention and drive more carefully.
http://www.myseniorsite.ca/driving-crashloc.htm