^ i agree. its a downhill and speed limit is 50km. I always slow down there tho just in case of speed traps.

Highway =/= Freeway

If the police didn't have ridiculous speed limits at places like the King George Highway.. it wouldn't be easy enough for them to hit their quotas.

They're going to tear that shit down soon. Maybe they'll rethink the speed limit once the new bridge is built.

meh, that run only takes me 3 seconds flat. I kid, lol

Odd thing is after the traffic light, speed limit goes up to 60km/h up the King George hill.

I think the speed limit is 50km/h over the Patullo because its so sketch narrow. It's also 50k on the New West side leading up to the bridge, cops love to hang around by the park. But having it upped to 60 immediately after the bridge and before the traffic light should be fine

Speaking of traffic bottlenecks... Holy crap today's rush hour commute was the worst ! Recently started working around the ironwood richmond area and all that craziness around no 5 and Steveston to get to the tunnel was pure chaos.

^ always drive south towards river road to gtfo

I shudder to think what that area is going to be like once the Fantasy Garden Condoland is finshed.

I'm trying to convince my parents to get out of Richmond before it's done, because if traffic gets any worse I'm going to stop visiting them.

Another Toll bridge?

thread revival...

I swear...if they be trolling us again with this BS:

New interchange in Delta hopes to decrease traffic congestion on Alex Fraser Bridge | Globalnews.ca

The B.C. government announced today it is kicking in $10 million to help get the project of decreasing congestion on the Alex Fraser Bridge and Highway 91 moving again.

The infusion of money is part of the province’s multi-step plan and will go first to a new interchange at Highway 91 and 72nd in Delta, which has been designated as a choke-point for traffic. A major corridor for port traffic, the route is heavily used by commercial vehicles every day to deliver goods to and from market.

“Traffic demand on the Highway 91 corridor – and over the Alex Fraser Bridge – continues to grow as development in Surrey and Delta increases,” said Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure Todd Stone in a statement.

“We need to get going on a fix, and get the traffic moving again. This is why we’ve kicked in an extra $10 million to move forward on a new interchange at Highway 91 and 72nd Avenue and developed a robust strategy to help cut the congestion on this key route, both in the short term and also the longer term.”

In total, the B.C. government is funding $20-million towards the $30-million future interchange, which will eliminate the only remaining traffic signal on the Highway 91 corridor.

Moving forward, the province says it will immediately add three more tow trucks on standby and increase their on-site hours and increase the number of highway patrols that will monitor for congestion. The ministry will also start an engineering review process to look at installing a new counter-flow system and introduce an information system.

In the longer term, the province says it will continue to work to push forward new interchanges at Nordel and Sunbury in the areas of Highway 91 and 17 to further address the issues of congestion.

The plan is to provide the design details to the public in the summer, tender the project and begin construction in the fall.

Recycled garbage to appease the hippies. I may actually be right that it will start in 2023

The other majorly f#cked up part in that area is where nordel turns from 3 lanes into 1 to cross over the 91 to go into Delta/get on Alex Fraser. That's a constant cluster f#ck every day now.

More on the plan...

https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2016TRAN0122-000965

The ministry will start an engineering review to look at:
Installing a new counter-flow system on the bridge for the morning and afternoon traffic crunches; and
Introducing an information system that will provide reliable travel information for the various Fraser River crossings at key decision points where motorists can adjust their travel patterns. Dynamic message signs will be installed at key locations on the highway network.

I'm not a fan of them implementing a counter flow system. They say they want to reduce commuter times so people can "spend more time with their families" Well, when they implement a counter flow system, all they are doing is reducing the commute time for those going with the flow of traffic and tagging more time onto the commuter that travels against the flow of traffic because you can guarantee that their travel times will increase. So essentially they are reducing that persons "time with their family" which defeats their reasoning for implementing the counter flow system.

And yes, i'm one of those commuters that goes against the flow of traffic along that route.

everyone needs to ride motorcycles.

Everyone just needs to have a jetpack

Finally. What a stupid place to put a traffic light.

Fuck the lights, let's just go build a new lane!

Traffic snarled Alex Fraser Bridge to get additional lane - British Columbia - CBC News

Does this mean they get to toll it now? :troll:

NO
unless that's just during rush hour times with this "counter-flow" lane.
traffic flow is at >40kph during rush hour anyways

they should put a toll on it, once the massey tunnel is replaced with a toll bridge the alex fraser is going to be full of cheap/stupid people, worse than the patullo is now

combo of this and removal of the lights at 72nd/hwy 91 and yah, i think we can have a viable rush hour crossing. DO IT ... DO IT NOWWWWW.

https://cdn.meme.am/cache/instances/...x/20024028.jpg

And when a loaded semi is in the right lane, it's 12kph.

But there's gonna be a lot of complaints if you toll almost all entrances into surrey and delta, even if it's a cheap toll. People will either move in to Vancouver, driving prices even higher, or people will simply get out of the city which will stagnant the economy. Or worse, everyone goes on Patullo Bridge.

OMG!!!!! its really happening... i saw that they were doing some digging at 72nd ave and hwy 91....ITS FINALLY HAPPENING.....THEY ARE DIGGING!!!!!!!

inb4 it's completely unrelated...