09-06-2020, 06:16 PM
|
#28
|
|
Willing to sell body for a few minutes on RS
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Duncan, BC
Posts: 10,128
Thanked 5,568 Times in 2,107 Posts
Failed 231 Times in 90 Posts
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by twitchyzero
does anyone know if the upgraded sea to sky for the 2010 olympics actually reduced the number of casualties and serious accidents each year?
it's a safer infrastructure but feels like it has become a lot more accessible/busier
|
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/briti...s%20per%20year.
Quote:
|
Shortly after the upgrades were complete, the highway enjoyed a significant drop in crashes. Between 1998 and 2007, 63 people died on the Sea-to-Sky Highway. There were upwards of 200 crashes per year. But by 2010, after the upgrades were complete, the number of crashes dropped by 66 per cent.
|
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/sea-to-sky-hig...rade-1.3780774
Quote:
But nearly a decade after taxpayers forked over more than half a billion dollars for the Olympic-sized improvement, there are still an average of 72 serious collisions per year. More than two of them are usually fatal.
More than 19,000 commuters a day now navigate the roadway—a 24 per cent increase in traffic—since 2009.
|
So still down despite a huge increase in traffic.
|
|
|