General Road and Highway Discussion

[dtkvictim]

The region has literally no plans whatsoever. If it was left to regional staff, they'd repave it 4 lanes again.

But I'd appreciate you signing my petition: https://www.change.org/betterbenton

I'll be presenting these plans to regional council hopefully in September.

Also see:

https://betterbenton.netlify.app/

I have indeed signed this back when you first posted it. It just makes so much more sense than what we currently have...

Hang on a second, it says “no through traffic”, not red-circle-with-a-slash-on-a-straight-arrow. So I don’t think going straight through the intersection is prohibited; actually it’s not clear to me that anything is prohibited. The sign just provides similar information to a “Dead End” sign. There is no point in continuing on Benton unless one is getting to one of the streets in that neighbourhood west of Courtland.

Why the lane marking is missing separating the right turn lane from the straight-through, I don’t know.

It looks like the lane marking has just been worn away. It looks like it is still faintly there.

I think you are actually right. I checked street view and the straight through lane markings have always been quite faded, so maybe it's just gotten even worse. For some reason it just felt quite different from the previous times I had walked through. The sharrows are new though.