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PaulB

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I really curious why the upcoming Olympics generated this massive new highway project. Not that this slide is directly related to that whole fiasco, but it seems like there were a ton of other options.

 

Rail lines come to mind, or better yet putting in a ferry from Vancouver to Squamish. Those options sound a lot cheaper then the idiotic new highway.

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That may be, but a ferry wouldn't get buried in a landslide. They just need a big ferry for the Olympics.

 

In my estimation what would be really cool is if they returned 99 to it's state prior to expansion. While they're at it return the highway from Vancouver to Horseshoe Bay back to it's prebuild state. That road was a crazy 2 lane winding road back in the 70s.

 

The kind of road that makes you pay close attention to your driving. :tup:

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Ugghh, 9 hours today from downtown Vancouver to Squish (stopped for breakfast though). Wouldn't be so bad but every man and his dog, camper van, delivery truck is going down the Duffey lake road now.

 

And they didn't spend 600 million to upgrade the highway just for 2 weeks of Olympics and the 40,000 or so residents of the corridor. Think Maple Ridge of the north more like it.

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