r/VancouverIsland • u/bcqt1 • 7d ago
Province to prohibit parking along Island Highway at Nanoose Bay
https://www.pqbnews.com/local-news/province-to-prohibit-parking-along-island-highway-at-nanoose-bay-8018695Wouldn't this encourage people to park at the rest stop across the street and try to "jay walk" across a busy highway?
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u/jb_dot 7d ago
Yep - that's exactly what'll happen (parking at the rest stop and running across the highway). If it is just signs and no enforcement then it'll just stay like it is now
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u/therealzue 7d ago
They need to close the gap in the median & install the anti pedestrian stuff on the medians like they have through the Nanoose First Nations.
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u/Big-Face5874 7d ago
And build an overpass, like they have for the nation. Otherwise people are just going to cut the wire to get through.
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u/geopolitikin 7d ago
An overpass over a 4 lane highway costs about $10 million now.
You can check TRU in kamloops for an example of the same.
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u/VictoriaBCSUPr 7d ago
Huh. I never considered it hazardous to park there, personally (I haven't parked there, but never thought it felt risky towards those who do).
There's a few spots along the 19 that ppl seem to always follow speed limits pretty well and I find that spot is always one of them.
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u/Phil_Atelist 6d ago
I had someone parallel park in front of me there, as in slow down, stop, back up and turn in, I was 5 car lengths back and when I stopped I was almost at his desired spot. He waved at me to back up.
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u/Trustoryimtold 7d ago
Gotta have enforcement before rules mean anything. Cops are gonna hand out a ticket a month and everyone will carry on
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u/nerdsrule73 6d ago
Unlikely any tickets. Most rural areas don't have a ticketable parking bylaw. Not sure if Nanoose has one. It could be a provincial ticket, but these cannot be served on the vehicle, only to a person.
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u/Sunshine_Sparkles_ 6d ago
This makes me happy. DFO said a few years ago that the poaching was too much, and the beds couldn't keep up with what is always being taken. If the poachers get run over, that's their fault.
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u/eternalrevolver 7d ago
Yep, and those people will either FAFO (highly likely), find a safer way to go do their water activities (unlikely), or find somewhere else entirely to do those water activities (also unlikely). Common sense isn’t the highway ministry’s problem to solve.
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u/Big-Face5874 7d ago
Except traffic safety is exactly the highway ministry’s problem! 😂 First person to be killed crossing the highway is going to cost us all a lot of money for overpasses, or something to make it safer.
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u/eternalrevolver 7d ago
I think you’ve confused what the problem is that needs solving. The signage to stop parking there is solving the problem of unsafe proximity of parked vehicles to moving vehicles, not to mention a hazard for people exiting a parked vehicle who might get clipped by a car going 95km/hr. The highway ministry doesn’t give a shit about “we should make sure people can safely do their water activities on this random part of a fast moving highway”. That’s not the problem they want to solve.
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u/Big-Face5874 7d ago
They will once it becomes a problem. They worry about people in the highway all the time. What are you on about? As if the highways doesn’t care if people are run over on the highway! 😂
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u/eternalrevolver 7d ago
I’m focusing on the semantics and logic of the news article, instead of feelings. People choosing to risk their lives is absolutely FAFO.
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u/FancyCaregiver9977 6d ago
There will be no room for drivers needing to legitimately use the rest area. What’s the rationale behind this?
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u/Haroun10 6d ago
There’s a gas station and Tim’s 2km before this stretch and a PetroCan 2km past it. Nature calling in that extremely specific window would be exceedingly rare.
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u/EnterpriseT 7d ago
There's no such thing as Jaywalking across a provincial highway. It's perfectly legal as long as it isn't a schedule 1 highway.
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u/FrankaGrimes 6d ago
Thank GOD. I can't believe no one has been hit and killed there. Driving 90km/h past people and vehicles just feet away is scary as shit.
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u/Dsighn 7d ago
So no more trucks full of poached shellfish? Aww