General Road and Highway Discussion

[danbrotherston]

Try 3-5 years. But first, why should we wait that long, we should make changes to fix the road now, right now it divides my neighbourhood and endangers me when I want to cross.

But also, the region has proven that they won't make changes even when there is a big rebuild...our region is just generally incompetent and needs to be dragged kicking and screaming into good policy.

I'd have worse things to say, but sadly I've been watching what the province has been doing for the past year, so they don't look so bad by comparison.

3-5 would be great, although I thought rebuilds happened after about 70 years or so (Benton was widened in the mid-60s, iirc).  What they must avoid is spending money on cosmetic changes that are going to be torn up when they get to rebuild time.

I'm not sure exactly what schedule rebuilds happen, but mid 60s is around 60 years from from 3-5 years from now.

But I disagree, spending money on cosmetic changes that make a road better for our city and help reduce climate change today are what are desperately needed, we cannot wait 20-30 years for a better city. We need it now.

And "cosmetic" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here, "cosmetic" meaning surface meaning 100% of the user experience of the road...every thing the average person experiences and thinks about...yes, it doesn't include subsurface works, but the surface works are the most important thing in how people actually use a street.