Michel wrote:
Just wait until you explore other roads, like the sea to sky after Whistler, or the number 3, or Williams Lake area, or the Cassiar highway (nearly killed myself there). No place to stop, trucks never slowing down, wild curves in mountainous area and no asphalt. In Muncho Lake area, all the bathrooms on the way are full of graffiti of truckers fighting against tourists. These two groups of users don't mix well up there, some being rushed by profits, others being tired and interested into enjoying the view on their way up or down from Alaska.
The train for Whistler would have been great, but hard to swallow as it would have been used only by sers of the Ski center. True, they compose the vast majority of the trafic, but still, it would be extremely annoying to pay for their leisure only.
I feel disapointed that they didn't seems to have think to make nice loop-out with unobstructed view on the new sea to sky. That's not bright. There might be a furure in that field SD. It's not urban develp,et, but it sure would be a big plus in BC. That can attracts lots of tourism and enhance the pleasure of roadtrips.
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what field? If I get to what I want to do, it'll be transportation oriented, I learnt to read on maps, drew out where roads should go since 10 on those street guides. No magazines in the bathroom, just provincial and state maps and country State Farm road atlas, memorized where all the cities were etc. lol anyway..
Yeah the unobstructed view of the new highway, that's a major concern I see. The Sound is so beautiful and when I drove up to Squamish last year I about killed myself looking at the scenery and driving into the sun and construction at the same time. With H. 4 I was able to stop and soak it in at places (and well there were logger trucks which slowed everything to a crawl and I went way below the speed limit which ticked off a few crazy 4x4s).
I wasn't thinking in terms of tourists for Whistler, the aim would be bigger. The region is next growth area of the Vancouver area. People live in Squamish, work in Vancouver. And eventually there will be a high speed rail link with Portland-Seattle-Vancouver, the besides political will the actor always slowing down this idea is BC. When the California line is built, BC/Wash/Oregon should come together and create their own. Then link the Oregon line up with California and you've got the entire West Coast connected by high speed 350kph an hour (220mph) trains. As fuel becomes scarce, the idea of interstates will wain and planes can't fly on anything other than crude oil. It could be realized by 2030ish at the earliest but more likely 2050.
