https://www.newwestrecord.ca/opinion/letter-new-west-small-business-is-suffering-during-the-pattullo-bridge-replacement-project-10224820
If only the 1937 Pattullo-Bridge was built a little higher & with a provision for a lower deck, It easily could have become a 6 lane bridge. Or, there was a provision to widen the narrow bridge at least a few meters on both sides, but that would indicate thinking & planning for the future.
Some people have houses that are wider than the incredibly narrow Pattullo-Bridge. The PB should have been twinned in the 1950s, especially by the 1960s. Thus, a new bridge could have provided 3 lanes 1 way, while a refurbished old PB could have 3 lanes in the opposite direction, with not just 1, but 2 wide sidewalks on both bridges.
Then when the Skybridge was finally built, it should have had at least 3 tracks & 2 bike lanes & a lower deck for 2 express bus lanes, which emergency vehicles could also use & 2 truck lanes, given that this is supposed to be a major seaport region.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Skybridge%2C_British_Columbia.jpg A 2 car joke of a train, on a single deck narrow bridge, just like the 2 car Canada Line.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e6/SkyBridge_sunset.jpg This is a 6 car mark 1 train. There would have to be a 12 car train of Mark 1 cars, just to reach the length of a 9 car Montreal Metro train. The newest Skytrain coaches will only form 5 car trains, because unlike Montreal, the first 2 lines only have 80m stations. The almost inept Canada Line has an absurd 50m stations, when the Montreal Metro stations are over 3 times the length, at 152.5 meters, or 500 feet.
Unfortunatly, backwards BC continually demonstrates what not to do. Why go the correct way, when you can go the inept way?
