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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
The truth is, there are three accesses to the shopping area west of Lowes, and the left lane of 130th rarely backs up. Personally, I'll take my safety over the convenience of someone wanting to shave a minute off their trip to Walmart.
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I would disagree with you on that. 130th is backed up almost all the time that I take it; which is why I will pass Lowes and Safeway to go to Walmart and the stores further west.
You mention 3 access points; however they all run off the same bottleneck of 130th ave. Now there are more stores going in north of Lowes; which will add to the congestion. The issue as I see it is that people will try and belittle the situation by saying things like what you said about shaving a minute off the trip to Walmart. So instead of looking at solutions like psicodude suggested; we are being told to just sit in the traffic and tough it out.
Why were people using the alleys as dragstrips? (Which I never saw personally; but I understand it only takes a few exceptions to have an accident.) The problem is that the whole setup was poorly designed. Part of that came when the City allowed Walmart to not build an exit right into McKenzie Towne. That occurred when there was still an entrance/exit beside Tim Hortons.
So now we are left with a shopping area that is hard to get in and out of during any sort of peak times. And the solution to this is not to tell people that they are being impatient; and then to under-estimate the delays.