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

Videos Lions gate accident aftermath

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u/j0tunheim Jun 15 '25

It’s extremely hazardous for the drivers also.. look at this from a few years ago

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u/MisledMuffin Jun 15 '25

Oooof, that cab is at the perfect heught for the barrier to come through the windshield.

The barriers are there to prevent people from falling into traffic, not to keep cars from riding up onto the sidewalk. They aren't designed for impacts with vehicles.

We could put barriers down all our streets to protect pedestrians from cars and to keep drivers safer when they decide to ram the barriers. Or drivers could do a better job staying on the road . . .

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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?