Pattullo "Bad" Bridge

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Pattullo Bridge needs a second span

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Gang violence…So is the sky train still safe at night? You be the judge.

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Sorry! Simon Fraser University you were not my first choice, it was actually across the Fraser River—the famed University of British Columbia.  There was one catch thought—I must drive over the narrow Pattullo Bridge which connected Surrey with New Westminster.  For professional drivers like my father that’s not the problem, however, even the best would sooner or later fall prey into Pattullo’s crowdedness because one did not have to initialize the accident itself (someone else would). 

On that bright morning day of March 8, 2006, as my father headed for work, a Honda CRV clipped the back of my father’s truck which caused their vehicle to crash into oncoming lane killing the driver of the Plymouth Sundance.  I’m glad my father was safe.

I fear for the commuters who have to drive through the nicknamed “Bridge of Death” everyday.  It is an obviously (you can try driving there if you don’t believe me) narrow bridge, which for some odd reason, I see a-lot-of-wheeler trucks use it every time while I sat at the back of the new pick-up truck cringing in fear.  I seemed to have created a knack for complai—I mean creating conversation concerning the bridge’s flaws and its possible solutions.

Its Flaws:

• Narrow
• Narrow
• Narrow

A list of solutions:

• Use SkyTrain (still safe last time I checked)
• Walk
• Get a floating car
• “Pay-Toll-o” Bridge
• Make another one just as wide
• “Only small cars allowed”
• Make it two-lane
• Spanning the bidge by ethicomm

If you want like to participate.

(Add to comments your own ideas and I’ll add
it to the list with your name)

Goodbye UBC and Hello SFU “where there are no bridges dividing us apart” school.