Highway One Improvements: North Vancouver / Ironworkers Memorial Approach | Completed

[jollyburger]

Originally Posted by FarmerHaight

So that's a total of $2 billion to add one travel lane in each direction plus two lanes on the bridge. Based on some US numbers, the capacity of a lane varies between 700 and 2,200 cars per hour, per lane depending on conditions. At the midpoint of 1,450 per hour you really aren't adding that much capacity during a two or three hour afternoon commuting crush, or Saturday morning when everyone is trying to get to get to Whistler at the same time. Compared to Skytrain which can move almost 30k people per hour and yeah, the investment in highway widening looks like throwing good money after bad.

The biggest problem with the bridge is the grading which has trucks trying to pull 40km up the bridge and then also having to merge back in before it gets to Cassiar.