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Originally Posted by Northendzone
depending on your direction of travel, the trees that are around the intersection would limit your field of vision from a distance. As you get closer, you will be able to see more, but your reaction time would be limited.
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I’ve turned at this intersection 100’s if not 1000’s of times. As a kid it was where we would turn or go straight to get to the lake on 1 of 2 routes. I’ve also pumped the brakes at the intersection approaching it from the west where a family died in 1996.
It’s flat as a pancake & disorientating.
I was born & lived in Saskatchewan until I was 35.
My main issue with this accident is that the intersection is a symptom of a larger problem.
That being, an archaic transportation network that attempts to serve an increasingly smaller rural population. Saskatchewan still has nearly 400 rural municipalities.
It does NOT have counties or municipal districts like Alberta where economies of scale can optimally design/build/maintain transportation networks that directly and accurately fund infrastructure based on population & economic activity.
Instead of having more miles of road per capita than pretty much anywhere else in the world... Saskatchewan needs to focus on regional governance and budgeting to build safe roadways, intersections, turning lanes, infrastructure etc. that is more inline with actual populations & economic activity, not some nostalgia of what they’ve always done or think they need.
In essence... lose or close the redundant crappy highways, intersections etc and ONLY fund/build/maintain ones of a higher/safer standard.
The governing party knows this & has had the political capital to get this accomplished for over a decade. But they steadfastly refuse or are scared to put their big boy pants on and get it done.
If there is blame for this, or culpability... for me... it rests with them.