For more than three years, Sooke residents put up with major traffic disruptions almost every day. We sat in traffic for hours. We were endangered by misleading line in the roads and cones that made no sense. Multiple chips in windows and paint. It seemed like it was never going to end.
What did we get? We received 1.2 kilometres of road with a speed limit of 60 km/h.
All the slow drivers find themselves on this wide-open road and suddenly decide they can go 80 km/h until the road thins out again, and then they go back to 55 km/h. So, if you want to use the four lanes for what they were supposed to be for, you have no choice but to speed.
Oh, and by the way, the RCMP have decided to move in and set up shop, so you will get a speeding ticket if that is what you do.
I am not blaming the RCMP. They need to be there. The crazy speeds people are going through in that section are unbelievable and must be curtailed.
I am not blaming the slow drivers. They are being cautious on a windy and somewhat hazardous highway. They then find themselves on this open stretch. Without knowing what they are doing, they speed up. Just drive through that section at 60 km/h; itB次元官网网址檚 like youB次元官网网址檙e standing still.
I blame the government that spent a fortune of taxpayersB次元官网网址� money ($85 million, the last I heard) and three years of my life without any basic understanding of traffic patterns.
So far, the expansion has not saved me 10 minutes. As a matter of fact, with the choke points at both ends, it may be costing me time.
This demonstrates the consequences of a government prioritizing a pet project in their leaderB次元官网网址檚 constituency to secure votes.
What a colossal waste of time and money.
John Ellis
Sooke
