$3Billion Port Mann - bridging the super highway

Twinning the bridge and making it into a "super highway" is great, it just means that we'll have 8 lanes of parking lot as opposed to 4. Vancouver, unlike Edmonton, Montreal, Toronto or many other major cities was never designed with the idea of moving large quantities of people nor did they want that. Vancouver always wanted to maintain "small town" feel and make it so that people don't rush from one end of town to the other. The only way we can expand our highway system, especially in already tight areas, is by building a highway over things (kind of like skytrain but for vehicles). Of course that won't fly here because too many people will complain about an obstruction of their view. So when we have our great bridge and 4 lanes each way then what? we're merging into a regular 2 lane highway, that's not the answer since most people here have no idea what the word "merge" actually means.

fantomdesigns has contributed a photo to this story.

A cold and early morning sunrise on the banks of the Fraser brings a calm and soothing feeling to the area while traffic crawls along the bridge to get to work on time.

Unfortuately only the Bridge entrance and exit will be 10 lanes. The rest will still be two lanes either side. Thus useless. Rapid transit is the way to go.

This sounds nice, but no one seems to see the larger picture. This is just one small part of the overall NAFTA super highway that is part of the plan for the North American Union. Don't get sucked into the feeling of unity as this is just a small step in a much larger plan for a few powerful elite to control more and more. Go to <a href="http://youtube.com">Youtube</a> and search for the North American Union. Then go watch Zeitgeist the movie under Google videos.