The most contentious things Tuesday night was the request from a local trucking company to use Goldstream Ave along Langford Lake to approach a concrete plant, as opposed to traveling down the highway to Spencer Road. In the end the request was turned down. However, members of the public pressed the committee on rumours they indicated were making the rounds in their neighbourhood that traffic was going to be diverted off, the highway, onto Goldstream Ave., and then onto the Spencer Road Interchange. Les Bjola indicated that a traffic study had concluded that there would be a limited increase in traffic due to this move, an assertion that met with a sceptical reaction from audience members.
The crux of the issue is how much traffic will be traveling east along the highway (from Goldstream Meadows, Sooke Lake Road, Goldstream Provincial Park, and the Malahat and everything north of it), and then wanting to travel up to Bear Mountain. This is the traffic that the new plan proposes to divert onto Goldstream Ave. Read the rest of this entry »
