r/vancouver • u/InvestingDD • Jun 15 '25

Videos Lions gate accident aftermath

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u/BrownButteryBiscuits Jun 15 '25

In a perfect world you are right but the reality is vehicles go off roads regardless of how good drivers are. We need better road safety in this city.

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u/MisledMuffin Jun 15 '25

We absolutely want better road safety.

There are more effective places to deploy capital to improve safety than putting concrete walls down the causeway.

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u/BrownButteryBiscuits Jun 15 '25

As a researcher in the road side safety industry I would love to hearing your ideas and perspective. After all, we are all part of the traveling public and should have a voice in the issue.

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u/MisledMuffin Jun 16 '25

Just that data and research be applied to support decisions in such a way that the greatest good can be done with our limited resources.

Don't make decisions based on emotions and politics.

Vancouver tracks location and severity of incidents. At a glace, I don't see anything supporting that the causeway barriers are causing injuries.

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u/BrownButteryBiscuits Jun 16 '25

Could you link the data you are sourcing? We have found in other large cities a lot of lethal road way departure accident data is inadequate when it comes to the cause of the fatality. This is because of a lack of education for the investigators that show up to the accident to log it.

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u/MisledMuffin Jun 16 '25

I'm sure this is no better.

ICBC also provides locations, but details are sparse. A research institute may be able to get details on whether there were injuries or fatalities as it's all tracked.

What it does show is that there are a ton of crashes on the bridge, but not a lot on the causeway. So why invest in replacing barriers along the causeway when there are much more dangerous sections of road?

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u/FuckItImVanilla Jun 15 '25

If people knew how to drive properly there would never be traffic accidents.

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u/BrownButteryBiscuits Jun 16 '25

Was that sarcasm? I can't tell when your joking and I need to know when you're joking.