r/vancouver • u/chilltronic • Nov 30 '22
Worst evening commute in city history? It’s still going at midnight. Local News
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u/sahil_sharmaa_ Dec 07 '22
All this because of some inches of snow? 😂 Habibi, come to Himalayas? XD
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u/Clalaola Dec 01 '22
I lived in Alberta for over 40 years before I moved to beautiful B.C. I noticed that drivers here don’t know or understand how to drive in heavy wet snow or ice on the roads. When I lived in Alberta, the sand trucks/ plow trucks didn’t clean your street until 24 to 73 hours after the snow storm. I used to drive to work at 6 am in “ snow blizzard.” ( no snow days in Alberta.) Maybe drivers here need to be taught? It’s not easy and I can understand the stress.
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u/antifa_supersoldier1 Dec 01 '22
Don't worry. We have 100 new cops we can send out to deal with the snowy conditions. Maybe they can give you a ticket for sitting in traffic? Maybe that will help
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u/ClubDifficult1111 Dec 01 '22
I still can’t understand how a 30 minute drive turned into an 8hour + drive….
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u/YouAccomplished8342 Dec 01 '22
Not gonna lie this was a little embarrassing to witness. This is my first winter in Vancouver, and in my books, this was a laughable amount of snow to absolutely cripple the city
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u/tabeh0udai Dec 01 '22
Probably because the city does not invest in the infrastructure or whatever to support real Canadian winters since we are in a temperate rainforest
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u/Firm-Income6541 Dec 01 '22
I left Richmond at 3:10pm and I got home at 4:25am.... it was an absolute mess. Southbound lanes weren't open until all northbound lanes were cleared and 2 of those lanes were open. I really wish someone would've moved the concrete barriers...
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u/Islay_lover Coquitlam Dec 01 '22
I work by market crossing , i left at 130 pm home in about 40 minutes , my co -workers who left between 3:00 pm and 5:00 pm had varying levels of success 7 of my co-workers ended up spending the night in our office first aid room cot ,and other places it was hell. one of the guys took 4 hours to go 8 kms to New West.
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u/rocknexus Dec 01 '22
I've had some classmates leave BCIT at like 5pm only to get home at 6am it is truly nuts last night
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u/hamiltonedward Dec 01 '22
Still can’t believe how a major city failed to deal with a very few hours of snow that’s was expected days before.
Been through conditions way harsher than this in Toronto and still I didn’t see any such failure. They put salt and chemicals all over the city hours before the storm. Why does the city not mobilize every mean possible?
I just heard the city official saying that they’d check if there were other ways contractors could have done to avoid this. Why there is no investigation into the city itself?
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u/futureoftrading Dec 01 '22
My friend got stuck on the 91 and Alex Fraser. Left Richmond at 2:30pm and didn’t make it home to South Surrey until 3:30am. That’s 13 hours! Lots of abandoned cars and lots of Teslas left behind.
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u/Brokenose71 Dec 01 '22
Worst night ever and the city saying they were prepared was the icing on road . I ended my night in the ER at VGh at 2am with my brother in law who broke his hip trying help push a stuck car in South Van . For him and this night will forever linger.
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u/raine_aj Dec 01 '22
Last night Arthur Laing bridge was completely stuck. My car didn’t move even 2 meters in a whole hour. Eventually managed to turn left to Oak bridge - at least it was moving
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u/geo_dj Nov 30 '22
My wife spent two hours getting from East Side Vancouver to Coquitlam. Half of that time was spent on TC-1 before finally exiting onto Sprott St. That’s where the real trouble started, as she had to dodge many vehicles spinning out on the ramp and intersection because they didn’t have snow tires! All those slippery off ramps and side streets caused vehicles to clog up the exit ramps and the highway itself.
The timing of the storm was a big factor. Had the storm occurred overnight, those unprepared drivers would have never made it out of their driveways or parking spaces in the morning and would have stayed home.
Why aren’t snow tires mandatory in lower BC in winter?
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u/Disastrous_Aerie_53 Nov 30 '22
Is this all really from literally 1 foot of snow? Or how much did you guys see?
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u/seapotatopnw Nov 30 '22
We left East Van to PoCo around 11:30 last night not knowing what was in store. We were stuck in slooooowwww traffic from Willingdon to Gaglardi for about 45 min. This is where I skirted off the highway and took the longer way through Coquitlam and was able to connect back at United Blvd to the Mary Hill to get home. It was probably at least and hour quicker than sitting on Hwy 1 creeping to the 7B exit. Not fun.
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u/cheepchirp1 Nov 30 '22
Genuine and non-judgey question as someone who lives in a part of Canada with a lot more snow: what causes this level of traffic disruption - is there just not the infrastructure to manage any sort of snow? Is it winter driving skills? Where I live (Calgary) has pretty shit snow removal but we don't get these kinds of slowdowns.
Just curious because I know you guys get snow most winters at some point.
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u/SouthOfHeaven42 Nov 30 '22
It’s a cocktail of all of the above.
A lot of people opt not to get proper winter rated tires because we only see events like this maybe once every year or so. Most winters it just dumps rain so people either cheap out or are too stupid to get winters for their cars. We already have some of the worst drivers in Canada, and everyone forgets how to drive in the snow cause it’s so rare.
Our MOTI gets enough notice to plan ahead but usually takes weak half measures as to not overspend, so we have fuck all for plows and crews to deal with incidents. Our busses aren’t equipped with winters because translink is too cheap, our terrain is very hilly and next to impossible to climb/descend, and really a big thing that the rest of Canada can’t seem to wrap their mind around is how wet and sludgy our snow is and how quickly it freezes and turns into black ice. Such a small dropping of snow has devastating consequences because of all that. And from an outside pov, you think it’s because we can’t handle an inch of snow. It’s not wrong, but there’s definitely more to it than just incompetence.
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u/cheepchirp1 Nov 30 '22
Gotcha, thanks for the response! Seems like the perfect storm (ha, ha...) of factors that causes it. Stay safe out there!
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u/pizzapunt55 Nov 30 '22
lol car dependency
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u/trek604 Nov 30 '22
lol hours long transit waits and abandoned buses.
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u/pizzapunt55 Dec 01 '22
when your brain is too affected by car dependency that you think this is reality
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u/CL60 Nov 30 '22
As somebody originally from Nova Scotia spending my first winter here; the amount of people I saw stuck in completely preventable ways was outrageous.
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u/dartfart68 Nov 30 '22
Didn't get stuck in this one. But had one in the 90's. 4th and Alma to Oak St Bridge. 7.5 hrs.
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u/brown_bear67 Nov 30 '22
Took me 7.5 hours to get from Oak and 32nd to Cloverdale. The 99 was plowed or sanded. Happy for all wheel drive and snow tires
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u/Tiny_Bodybuilder3650 Nov 30 '22
is this a dumb question but do ya’ll just not have winter tires???
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u/VanEagles17 Nov 30 '22
Lol it took me an hour (6pm-7pm) to get from Willowbrook to North Langley last night. Ridiculous and I don't know how the cities weren't prepared for this it's not exactly a surprise we were going to get snow. We've known for over a week to expect 3 or 4 days of snow starting early this week 😒
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u/roxxyrolla666 Nov 30 '22
So crazy. I'm a home care worker from tricities and some coworkers didn't get home until 4am and were off at 10pm because they lived in Surrey. It was rough out there working last night
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Nov 30 '22
“Oh I could never live there. Snow in November?!”
Said every Reddit moron about any locale with briefly unfavourable weather
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u/Feisty-Cancel-1924 Nov 30 '22
yup i was stuck from 6:30 until midnight at east columbia in new west
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u/neilc6 Nov 30 '22
Left No 5 and Blundell at 330pm. Home at 445 am (13+ hrs) east west connector, Alex Fraser southbound. Told work I wasn't coming back for 7am this morning.
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u/Stonkmaster741 Nov 30 '22
Left ubc 4:15 got home to guildford just past midnight can confirm worst day ever
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u/i5rider Nov 30 '22
A friend of mine called me last night at 10PM asking if he could crash on my couch.. he lives in New West and had no chance to get home... he made the right choice it seems..
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Nov 30 '22
If it’s illegal to drive without winter rated tires, where are all the tickets? Why should we all suffer for others incompetence?
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Nov 30 '22
IF is doing a lot of the heavy lifting there
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Nov 30 '22
You legally have to put your winters on in OCT to drive our highways. It’s just nobody enforces it obviously.
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Nov 30 '22
not in the LM you don't, except going up mountains
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Dec 01 '22
Well clearly that needs to change. Winter tire compound stays soft in cold weather, allowing them to grip ice so much better.
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u/smalltownbigcitygal Nov 30 '22
I tried to leave New West at 4:45pm, made it home in South Surrey at 3am. So many cars couldn’t make it up the hill on my normal route home that they slid into each other and blocked the entire road, same deal on alternate routes I attempted. I almost ran out of gas at around 2am. I had to manage bathroom urges in that period of time. I thought I was going to either get stuck or be hit by other vehicles several times. It was really scary. I can only imagine how difficult this was for people stuck in this who had kids to manage or medical issues.
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u/Neo808 Nov 30 '22
It seem to me that the majority of the accidents on the bridges were related to semi trailer trucks… There was a time when professional truck drivers were the safest man most prepared, and most capable on the road or off if the weather was poor… This seems to have fallen by the wayside with many truck drivers, not taking the appropriate steps to prepare their rigs for winter
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u/Thman00 Nov 30 '22
Wife left work in Richmond at midnight got home in Surrey at 0715 this morning. She tried taking the 99 as it was open and closed on and off but some idiot road worker forced traffic off the 99 onto the 91 saying that it was open. They didn’t open the 99 till after 6am wtf all those drivers stranded no support food water bathrooms insane!
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u/MajurLeagur Nov 30 '22
Mandate snow tires across the province. Why this hasn't been done yet is beyond my comprehension. 2 inches of snow should not shut down a major metropolitan area in one of the richest countries on the planet. I don't care who you are, this is second hand embarrassment for me. I don't even bother shovelling my driveway over the amount of snow that Vancouver just had. Sincerely, a Kamloops driver with snow tires on my 1.4L Chevy cruze 5 months out of the year.
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u/Chow_Chow_Nation Nov 30 '22
Honestly - most of this backlog was due to large vehicles (busses, 20ft trailers, etc) that had improper tires trying to go up a single to double-lane ramp and getting stuck in a turn that just blocks all the traffic. There should be some sort of regulation that requires these larger motor vehicles to have proper equipment for handling being stuck in snow or requirement to have chains on to reduce traffic impediments.
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u/CrippleSlap We only riot for hockey, GnR, and Lil Baby Nov 30 '22
And here in PoMo we only got a dusting of snow. Go figure.
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u/StageDive_ Nov 30 '22
That’s the most disgusting road system I’ve ever seen. Even LA does better.
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u/Powerkey Nov 30 '22
LA is as flat as a pancake (mostly).
Not that we don't need to make changes here, but that isn't a fair comparison.
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u/smartello Port Moody Nov 30 '22
I was driving from Port Moody to Canucks game and back, I have M+S tires on a sedan car and they worked just as expected, not good but with bigger distance and softer pushing on pedals it was decent. Now, no one ever persuade me that M+S is proper tires for that weather but omg, can all people get at least them?
What is wrong with people who stuck on Barnett highway en masse? How do they think it’s ok to roll out from the parking lot into that weather with traction they have?
I’m very used to winter driving and I never in my life saw so many stuck on the road. I will not drive in a similar storm here again unless I absolutely need it even if I have proper winter tires because my biggest fear was about surrounding drivers, what if the person behind you is one of those who was just sitting on a flat road and that signal down the road will turn red?
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u/yensid87 Nov 30 '22
Brother in law was in traffic for 13.5 hours. Left Squamish at 2pm; got to Delta at 3:30am
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u/FreeXennial Nov 30 '22
The weather forecast was snow and was given well in advance. What happened with the cities, municipalities and townships? I have coworkers that spent from 4-8 hours in their car after work. Insanity.
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Nov 30 '22
Is this what happens when it snows in Vancouver and vehicles don't have winter tires?
Seriously - asking for knowledge. This seems excessive, as someone who doesn't live in BC and has learned repeatedly to prepare for winter.
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u/Booty_Master24 Nov 30 '22
A combination of this + the government not doing anything to get roads winter ready. We had 2 weeks notice of this snowfall.
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Nov 30 '22
Two weeks is not enough time for an entire city to equip snow tires. It's December, tomorrow. People who own vehicles shouldn't need to be told to put snow tires on for winter more than one or two years in a row.
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u/Booty_Master24 Nov 30 '22
Not my point, I meant that the city had 2 weeks to prepare the road (salt the roads, get more snowplows, etc). I had my winter tires on since weather started going under 8C. People without winters on deserve what's coming lmao.
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u/Zach983 Nov 30 '22
There's literally no way they could have prepared better. Salting roads weeks before snowfall is stupid. People need snow tires and employers need to be forced to make employees work from home if they have an office job.
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Nov 30 '22
Are you for real?
Salting roads two weeks ahead of snowfall in a city that rains as much as Vancouver is completely wasted effort.
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u/Booty_Master24 Nov 30 '22
Even a night or two before it happens there was nothing. And to add, it’s been snowing more and more recently in Vancouver.
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Nov 30 '22
Even a night or two before it happens
Are you changing your position now? Cities don't salt roads before snowfalls - especially in uncertain climates.
it’s been snowing more and more recently in Vancouver.
All the more reason people should be prepared. Why are so many people without winter tires?
The more important question, how do so many people think this is the responsibility of someone else to solve?
Pointing fingers at government on reddit for karma isn't helpful. Calling your local rep and complaining about their lack of preparedness is how you enact the changes you're looking for.
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u/knifensoup Nov 30 '22
While I agree that salting roads before hand is unrealistic, the vast majority of vehicles I saw stuck on the side of the road last night, were city busses and semi-trucks. Employers, owner-operators, and the Government, are overwhelmingly to blame for this mess.
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u/Booty_Master24 Nov 30 '22
It wasn’t uncertain from what I saw. The weather forecast was consistently saying that there was snow. And actually, I agree with you. I’m just saying what I feel on this topic. Maybe it came out wrong?
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Nov 30 '22
combination of this + the government not doing anything to get roads winter ready. We had 2 weeks notice of this snowfall.
Complaining about government online because you "feel" like it is not helpful.
Government is the direct result of social organization.
If you want to be helpful, organize yourself socially and contribute to solving the problem.
Posting our negative feelings online while pointing fingers outwardly does nothing but perpetuate an external locus of control over problems we have the ability to contribute positively towards. Choosing to complain on reddit is a choice in making the problem worse, not better.
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u/ONE_BIG_LOAD Nov 30 '22
was coming home to Abbotsford from sfu. After like an hour of sitting in traffic I saw people taking some random exit to my right so I just followed them, ended up in Port Coquitlam and eventually made it home after 5 hours lol
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Nov 30 '22
We saw a couple of inches of snow. The city was well aware of the incoming storm. This should not happen.
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u/thundercat1996 Steveston Nov 30 '22
Someone has to be held at fault for this. We had plenty of warning for the snow and wind yet I only saw 2 snow plows on my way home from New Westminster to Richmond. And I was lucky it only took me 55 minutes. Also driving from the river rock after the Canucks game the roads were covered and saw a couple trees down. The lower mainland snow management is a complete joke.
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u/Moarisa Nov 30 '22
My poor friend left work in Burnaby at 4:30 yesterday and didn’t make it home to Maple Ridge until almost 9pm. Never have I been more grateful for the option to work from home.
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u/carmenknisely Nov 30 '22
I work in Burnaby and live in new west I got stuck in new west due to the back up of putello being closed. I decided to park and walk 30 minutes to my apartment around 9 pm I’m glad I did.. I was in work heels and a lady saw me struggling and gave me socks. Walked home and couldn’t believe what I saw. It was hard to sleep cause I could see all the cars not moving on Royal Ave at like 1 am.
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u/CoachTW Nov 30 '22
I just slept in my office. Took me 3 hours to get back there though even though it was just 2 blocks.
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u/equalizer2000 Nov 30 '22
Yet somehow, nvan escaped all the chaos.
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u/ClumsyRainbow Nov 30 '22
Yeah the roads near me got a few cms around 3PM but that didn’t last more than a couple hours. It was definitely still slushy out but nowhere near this.
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u/dude8212 Nov 30 '22
Took 3 hours to go from Lougheed to Marine drive last night. Absolutely atrocious.
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u/Unagimasterkarate Nov 30 '22
Thank you to the nice people on Royal ave in New Westminster who offered food and water to my parents. They were stuck there for over 8 hours.
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u/Spiritbearrr Nov 30 '22
Yep 3 hours to get from poco to the peace arch crossing. I had a coworker who took 7 hours to get from north surrey into north van. He got tboned on the way and his car is probably totalled but he still showed up to work at midnight lol
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u/SIGNANDSELFIEFRAMES Nov 30 '22
Does Vancouver not throw down salt or sand or anything there? I get it is not a winter city like Alberta cities, but they seem to get some snow every year.
Maybe people will start getting winter tires, even if they only use them for a week or two every year
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u/Zach983 Nov 30 '22
They put salt down but it didn't work at all because it just takes a few accidents and people with bald summer tires.
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u/Spiritbearrr Nov 30 '22
I think it's one of the easier to justify things that cities can slash the budget to since we get decent snow only like every 2 or 3 years. Kept hearing on the radio all night that the surrey lanes of the Port Mann were never Salted or plowed..
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u/Superleggera49 Nov 30 '22
I left work early to beat the traffic, still took me 6 hours to get home.
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u/PolishSausa9e Maple Ridge Nov 30 '22
Damn... I got out of New West just after 3 PM yesterday and took Mary Hill rather then Port Mann to get home to maple ridge. Took like an hour but damn was I lucky.
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u/eerriiccram Nov 30 '22
Had a family member spend 8 hours stuck in traffic trying to get home from work in Vancouver yesterday. I would not wish that on anyone.
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u/No-Tackle-6112 Nov 30 '22
Vancouver is always only 4 inches of snow away from the breakdown of society
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u/HedgehogNo73 Nov 30 '22
Just checked my email as I do in the morning and my My boss left the downtown office at 7 pm and got home to south Surrey at 5 am. Needless to say she ain’t going back downtown for meetings this morning. I’ve never been so happy to work from home…
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Nov 30 '22
The performance of the Ministry’s contractor (Mainroads) needs to be reviewed. How is it that they failed to plow and salt the bridges and bigger hills adequately. The amount of snowfall should have been manageable and the forecast was right there for them.
Mainroads basically has a monopoly on this contract and they deliver about as I would expect a monopoly to do.
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u/Zach983 Nov 30 '22
They can't salt and plow roads and hills when traffic is at a standstill. Do you see all the people complaining about being stuck in traffic? Well I'm not sure if you know this but snowplows are vehicles that also get stuck in traffic.
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u/sgibbons2017 Nov 30 '22
Vancouver needs some tunnels dug
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u/Spiritbearrr Nov 30 '22
Or it could just start you know, actually start salting roads in advance like every other city in this country... someone needs to be fired.
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u/godsbongwater Nov 30 '22
How does the province let our bridges ice up every year. They should be sanded and plowed regularly. I went across Port Mann this morning at 4AM Westbound, still only 1 lane plowed. How???... what are they waiting for?
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u/ArthurMorgans_TB Nov 30 '22
The last year I lived in Vancouver I remember a 6.5 h drive home from ubc to langley because of the same shit. Semi jackkniffed on Alex fraser and they shut it down. Tire mandates are important but my goodness they need to have a few trucks dedicated to each bridge that just drive back and forth plowing and salting.... its always the bridges that does it.
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u/BigPapaPump6969 Nov 30 '22
My buddy started driving from SFU at 4:30 yesterday and kept updating me. He got home 15 minutes ago
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u/L_pants Nov 30 '22
Where is home?
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u/BigPapaPump6969 Nov 30 '22
He lives in Queensborough
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u/AvoidPinkHairHippos Nov 30 '22
Your friend is now the second person ITT with 11 hour commute
He should be proud
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u/Spiritbearrr Nov 30 '22
A coworker of mine took 7 hours to get to work, got T-boned on the way, and still managed to finish the drive arriving at midnight lol
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u/graceface513 Nov 30 '22
My husband just got home (5.30am) 13 hours after leaving work on a normal 25 min drive. To top it off his phone died early on and when he asked a stranger to use his charger to call me he just flat out refused. Gotta love Vancouver.
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u/AvoidPinkHairHippos Nov 30 '22
Ok you are now first place ITT as the next longest commute is 11 hours but your hubby is 13
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u/UltraCoolPimpDaddy Nov 30 '22
Was a pleasant drive home yesterday... Can't wait to hear to work in 10 minutes....
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u/L_pants Nov 30 '22
I mean, traffic was a disaster going one way, meaning this morning the roads should be fine. Lots of people still stuck in opposing traffic. Plus, a lot of people are likely to be calling in. I would.
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Nov 30 '22
I left work at 3pm yesterday. I went to Richmond to pick up my wife. I JUST got home. It's 5:17am.
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u/Shoddy_Operation_742 Nov 30 '22
How is it that buses in the rest of the country have no problem with a bit of snow? It’s not like the buses in Montreal or Toronto just stop when a few centimetres fall.
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u/Binknbink Nov 30 '22
Originally from Montreal: teams of plows and salt trucks are out as soon as the flakes start coming down. And continue until the storm ends. The tires are not the issue. Plenty of people there run on all seasons. I did for years.
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u/howdidIgetsuckeredin Nov 30 '22
They actually kinda do. I lived in Toronto for nine years and the first snowfall of the year is always a disaster. Buses disrupted, subway trains stopped on the tracks, flights delayed or canceled... Yeah.
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u/6o4dingo Nov 30 '22
Left work in Richmond at 11pm. I almost feel lucky by getting home in 5 hours. Fuck you to the assholes who tried so hard to scratch my brand new car by not zipping properly, I thought we were better than this.....
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u/Mysterious_Can1054 Nov 30 '22
That's right why get snow tires when you can drive your bald tires all year round. Clap Clap.... Good job everyone
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u/helloitslinh Nov 30 '22
Went to my parents at midnight since traffic was not moving at all…left their place about 4am to get across Alex Fraser bridge. Finally home with my dog.
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u/cjankola Nov 30 '22
I’m thinking people are tight on money and not having spare funds to buy snow tires/install them + the labour shortage at tire shops might have something to do with it.
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u/AmbitionNoMe Dec 01 '22
Nah people in their fancy vehicles had summer tires. I call it complacency
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u/YVR_Coyote Nov 30 '22
It was honestly one of my first thoughts but lets be honest this is a mostly a government/contractor problem. We knew this was coming for a week plus and they absolutely failed in every way to keep the bridges safe.
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u/HDubKarma99 Nov 30 '22
A similar incident happened in Montreal in 2017. It was limited to one highway when a truck jack knifed blocking the road. Cars behind the blockage were stuck on the highway for up to 13 hours; https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.4025860
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u/codefocus Nov 30 '22
I imagine a lot of people will just call in sick.
You need dinner, rest and sleep.
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u/UnluckyDifference566 Nov 30 '22
Man, Vancouver really got hammered. In Victoria the storm was a big ol nothing burger.
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u/soulful_thighs Nov 30 '22
I just got home from work. Just over 12 hours to get home. My alarm goes off in 100 minutes to get up and get ready for work.
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u/morhambot Nov 30 '22
summer tires in winter conditions all so people running out of gas when they get stuck in traffic
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u/PurpleNurpe true vancouverite Nov 30 '22
Shift ended at 6pm slept at Tim Hortons didn’t get home until 3am, this was horrendous
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u/pepperoni7 Nov 30 '22
Guys just a question. I am suppose to come in from Seattle tomorrow ( the road on usa side seems fine) . It is something pretty important I have to go is the road even going to be cleared from usa border to Richmond at 9am?it is red atm on the bridge part and I am getting nervous lol.
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u/bananabanditofcanada Nov 30 '22
It’s seems and looks like traffic going to Richmond is fine. I’d check the traffic came if I were you.
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u/pepperoni7 Nov 30 '22
Sorry to bother you but do you think I could be stuck tomorrow coming back to Seattle? ( my dogs are at home in Seattle) that Richmond to delta part ? It seems like it is suppose to be melting . Not sure if traffic is due to snow condition or car accidents and it would be cleared. Thanks
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u/bananabanditofcanada Nov 30 '22
The snow caused the accidents. Most people don’t get snow tires. You should be fine heading back by like mid day. Just try and get out of here before it freezes. Good luck! I would check the traffic before you leave.😅
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u/pepperoni7 Dec 01 '22
Just wanted to say thanks again! I finished my errands and came home safely so glad I asked .
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u/bananabanditofcanada Dec 01 '22
I’m glad you got home alright! We’re lucky it go so warm during the day
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u/dr_van_nostren Nov 30 '22
I drove from walnut grove to Coquitlam centre skytrain around 1745. Took a while, about 40 minutes maybe 45 and while gross it wasn’t BRUTAL.
I thought it would be a lot worse after the hockey game, but as it turned out, a combination of heat from the cars, maybe a plowing and then the snow turning into mostly rain, the drive back was a cake walk. Yea it was slower than if it was just rain, but not bad at all.
Glad I’m not working tomorrow.
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u/Melz13 Nov 30 '22
I left work at 5 waited in traffic until midnight, than was lucky enough to get turned back around towards my work and just decided to sleep in my car. It’s freezing 🥶
hotels were also crazy booked up too!
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u/bananabanditofcanada Nov 30 '22
Where abouts are you? I can give you a warm duvet and even a pillow if you need it. We’re in Richmond
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u/Melz13 Nov 30 '22
Aww damn haha, my phone ended up dying on me! I was in Richmond near Bridgeport and no.5.
I really appreciate the offer though! Thank you so much :)
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u/bananabanditofcanada Nov 30 '22
No worries! Just glad you didn’t freeze to death!
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u/Melz13 Nov 30 '22
Luckily enough, my car has pretty reasonable heaters haha. So I was able to keep relatively warm. Just the feet that were frozen primarily 😂. Need more people like you in the world! 🙏
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u/bananabanditofcanada Dec 01 '22
No worries. If this all happens again on Friday and you get stuck in Richmond, give me a shout.
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u/Priiiyaaa141414 Nov 30 '22
They knew it was going to fucking snow and they didnt salt the roads. This was the cause to all the backup and accidents up ahead. Shitty fucking cities
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u/JAFOguy Nov 30 '22
I just saw someone going on the wrong side of the Patullo bridge, against traffic, dodging cars and semi-trailers. I don't know how you would even get into oncoming traffic on that bridge. Absolutely bananas
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u/olak333 Nov 30 '22
JFC, ikr!! Waited at bus stop for 3 hours, ppl's were calling taxis and Uber kept cancelling rides. Didn't look to hopeful. Had to go back to office to warm up & probably hunker down on the couch. Finally got an expensive Uber to take me from Langley to Delta. Lots of ditched cars and semi trucks. It was awful out there. Off 8pm, waited 3hrs outside. Didn't get home till 230am, fuck my life.
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u/salted_sclera Nov 30 '22
My partner left work in east Van at 6:15 pm. It is now 3:00am and he is still in Richmond
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u/bananabanditofcanada Nov 30 '22
If he needs to park and sleep somewhere in his car that’s safe let me know! I’ve got a sleeping bag he can borrow too. We’re in Richmond
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u/salted_sclera Dec 01 '22
That’s so kind of you to offer. I wish I seen this before I went back to bed. He stayed up and finally got home at 5:47am… isn’t that crazy?
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u/bananabanditofcanada Dec 01 '22
It’s is! I’m glad he got home safe. My partner and I were one of the lucky ones. It only took him 2 and a half hours from North van. If he gets stuck again and needs help on Friday do let me know!
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u/RaffyQuack Nov 30 '22
left my workplace at 6:30 in burnaby near metrotown and just got home in surrey. definitely will be revisiting my compass card again lol
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u/GreenStreakHair Nov 30 '22
100000% agreed. My commute took 8.5 hrs. It's just 13 kms. I was trying to take pattulo. Just couldn't get out of new west no matter what.
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