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Not surprising bridge is a hard sell

Editor: It's not surprising that the bridge is a hard sell. It makes no sense. Yes, another crossing over (or under) the South Arm is needed, but not here.

Editor:

It's not surprising that the bridge is a hard sell. It makes no sense.

Yes, another crossing over (or under) the South Arm is needed, but not here.

Just look at the big picture as it is now: only two options at its western end, the tunnel and the Alex Fraser Bridge; between them they have to accommodate all the traffic between Surrey and the coast on the one side and everything to the south, and when one of them has a problem, the other comes to a halt also. A third crossing is needed between the tunnel and the bridge, say somewhere southwards of Boundary Road.
Both East Vancouver and Burnaby have seen enormous development, both residential and commercial and the vastly increased traffic that has generated has to use either one or the other to cross the South Arm. A third option would also relieve the horrendous congestion along Marine Drive, in both directions, an additional bonus. If it were linked up with the new Highway 17, the latter would see more use to vindicate its existence as well.

I'm not surprised either that Richmond is strongly opposed to enlarging the tunnel or the vast bridge proposed to replace it. Many a time I've sailed through the tunnel without a hitch, only to find myself becalmed at Westminster Highway behind traffic backed up from the dog's breakfast intersection of 70th and Oak.

Shunting a problem from one location to another is not a solution.

Ellen Pye