Open letter to YVR,
Well, you blew it! Repaving is complete and nothing is really any better. All users of this route knew very well where all the potholes and hazards were, but traffic flow has not improved! I live in Richmond and have worked at the airport for 30 years, and commuting there has never been a greater challenge than it is now. There is a 100-metre section northbound between Cessna Drive (BCIT) and Hudson Avenue (Burkeville entrance) that funnels traffic down to two lanes delaying airport workers and passengers from the right hand exit after Miller Road.
Why should passengers and airport workers be subjected to the Marpole/Arthur Laing bottleneck when we aren't part of that problem? As I type this, the back-up is over the No. 2 Road Bridge to Westminster Hwy. with no doubt some airport workers and passengers arriving late yet again.
The northbound section between BCIT and Hudson could have been widened to three lanes quite easily, while still maintaining the integrity of the bike lane, by moving the cement barriers on the right slightly eastward and the yellow line at the median moved slightly westward at no extra cost.
You could have had a right hand lane for airport/buses/HOV/traffic all the way from the Dinsmore bridge. Traffic flow in this city and all of the Lower Mainland is bad enough. One would think that when the opportunity presents itself to improve upon traffic flow, one would take it. I'm sure I'm not the only Richmond resident who is very disappointed in this outcome.
Colin Draper
Steveston
