So, then should we twin every highway to make sure people don't pass on double solids. The highway is fine, people need to stop driving so aggressively.
So, then should we twin every highway to make sure people don't pass on double solids. The highway is fine, people need to stop driving so aggressively.
From watching the news I see that the crash occurred on flat, straight black top... somebody was driving like a idiot. Why is everyone blaming the road?
The road had absolutely nothing to do with the crash, poor decision making is what took 7 lives.sorry but it occured on a hill when one of the vehicles passed on a double solid going uphill, not a straight black top. How many people have to die and get hurt on this highway before something gets done
So, then should we twin every highway to make sure people don't pass on double solids. The highway is fine, people need to stop driving so aggressively.
sorry but it occured on a hill when one of the vehicles passed on a double solid going uphill, not a straight black top. How many people have to die and get hurt on this highway before something gets done
I dunno, this is what I was referring to, same wreck ? Watch the whole video from the link below.
Theone we speak of was by wandering river not boyle
well, there is a solid line in the pic. someone passed against the solid and caused a head on....where does the confusion lay?I dunno, this is what I was referring to, same wreck ? Watch the whole video from the link below.
they put the cables up on hwy 2 because the median is only 25' feet wide. look at hwy 43....how many head on crashes occur on the stretch between carvel and valleyview now? none....The highway isn't the problem, it is the people driving on it. I live in Wandering River, and a can't begin to explain all the completely avoidable accidents that I have seen. For a few years I worked in Marriana Lakes and traveled this highway every day. The plain stupidity of some of the poeple on this road astounds me. I have seen people three wide while passing, and even saw four wde going up crow creek hill once! People are always ready to blame the province because they haven't twinned the highway, but nobody seems to take responsibilty for the way they drive. Yesterday on my way home heading north towards Wandering River I met what must have been a bunch of traffic going south that either was let through the accident scene, or turned around and were heading for 881. In a 20km stretch I saw at least 3 vehicles passing multiple vehicles while going around a corner and/or with solid lines and oncoming traffic! And they weren't passing because traffic was going slow either, apparently they saw a need to go 140km/h instead 110km/h.
The only thing twinning will do is reduce the number of head ons. And I say reduce becuase people will still make it across the center portion and into the other lane. Look at how bad some of highway 2 was until they put up the cable barriers in the center. What people don't realize is how much of an increase of speed there will be on a twinned road. Again look at the speeds on highway 2, and there is a much higher presence of RCMP there then here. There will still be bad accidents because it will still be the same people driving the road, just going faster!
well, there is a solid line in the pic. someone passed against the solid and caused a head on....where does the confusion lay?
tragic for sure, and poor driving decisions are ultimately to blame. twinning the highway will reduce the amount of deaths simply because there will be no oncoming factor. the idiots will still be idiots though, can't change thatIn the original post it was a vehicle passing on a solid line climbing a small hill in low visibility conditions. Struck head on at the top or something. Doesn't really matter tragic no matter how you look at it.
tragic for sure, and poor driving decisions are ultimately to blame. twinning the highway will reduce the amount of deaths simply because there will be no oncoming factor. the idiots will still be idiots though, can't change that
The amount of traffic, especially truck traffic on that road warrants twinning. Personally, I think that they should twin the train tracks to Fort Mac and put shift trains and cargo on the rail to get rid of the bus and a lot of the truck traffic on the road.