What is the most intolerable aspect of Vancouver's traffic? Maybe it's not that the overhead train coverage is not high enough, or the bus frequency is not enough, but the road congestion:
Especially in Vancouver, you may wonder: Vancouver has a population of only 700,000, why can traffic jams be like Los Angeles and New York with tens of millions of people?
In fact, the reason is very simple: although Vancouver has a small population, Vancouver's land area is pitifully small! Only 120 square kilometers, resulting in Vancouver's population density is the highest among major cities in North America.
In addition, Vancouver does not choose to use a network of highways like typical North American cities, and most of them are only urban roads with a speed limit of 50 km/h. Therefore, although Vancouver rarely gets stuck in traffic to "stop and stop", it is common to slow down.
Other cities in Metro Vancouver are no better, whether it is North Vancouver, Burnaby, New Westminster, or some communities in Coquitlam, Richmond, and Surrey, they are inevitably congested every day.
What are the most congested times and the most congested roads in Metro Vancouver?Daily Hive Urbanized conducted a readers' poll and the results are available for your reference.
5 points is the most blocked, followed by 4 points
From 0:00 to 11 p.m., the congestion index for each time period is as follows:
5 p.m. is the most congested time, there is no one, the typical working hours in Vancouver are 9 to 5, so 5 o'clock is exactly the second half, and the congestion will continue until 6 o'clock, 6:30 or even 7 o'clock;
The time of the second block is 4 o'clock, many people will go to work at 8 o'clock and get off work at 4 o'clock, and many parents will send their children to various extracurricular classes and cram schools after picking up their children at 3 o'clock, so that the traffic flow at 4 o'clock is also very large.
3 o'clock is also a more congested time, the reason is of course that students leave school, but the congestion index cannot be compared with 4~6 o'clock.
The Vancouver morning rush hour isn't too congested
Through readers' polls, we also found a problem: Vancouver's morning rush hour congestion is much less than that of the evening rush hour, with the most congested 8 a.m. than 9 a.m. and 7 p.m. cars.
The editor also has some experience of this, because almost all the congestion in the big temperature experienced by driving occurs at 3~6 o'clock, and there is rarely a congested experience in the morning. In fact, this makes people wonder: the traffic in the morning is not big, but after 3 o'clock it is suddenly so big, where do these extra cars come from?
The daily congestion situation is also different, readers poll show: Thursday is the most congested time of the week, Thursday 5~6 o'clock is the most congested time of the week in Greater Vancouver: the average distance of 10 kilometers to drive for 31 minutes, the average speed is less than 20 km/h.
The most congested streets in various cities, can you guess it?
Let's talk about the most congested streets as voted by readers in each city – if you're particularly afraid of traffic jams, see if you can avoid them often.
温哥华:Oak St
The "main culprit" of the congestion at Oak St is that it is a traffic artery connecting Vancouver and Richmond, and there is always congestion near the Oak Bridge. Some might say, "Why not take Knight or Arthur Liang?" and the reason is simple: they don't lead directly to the heart of Richmond.
And the Oak Bridge on Oak St is not only to Richmond, but also connects to Highway 99, which provides direct access to Surrey, Delta, and the U.S. border, so it's so busy that it's really stuck in the evening rush hour.
温哥华：Main & Terminal St
Another voted most congested street in Vancouver was Main & Terminal St, south of Chinatown. Having to handle the traffic to and from Downtown and the E 1st Ave to the east also connects to Highway 1, it's always "overcrowded".
North Vancouver: Two Bridges
The most congested section of North Vancouver is best guessed: the upper bridge entrance of the Steelworkers Bridge and the Lions Gate Bridge. The former goes straight to Windon and Burnaby, and the latter goes straight to downtown Vancouver, and there are only these two bridges, so there are not many smooth times in a day.
列治文：Knight Bridge
The most congested section of Richmond is also very easy to guess: the "Evil" Knight Bridge, which is a nightmare for many drivers who live in Richmond and need to go back to Vancouver and Burnaby. The evening rush hour is extremely congested, and it is also the most frequent area for traffic accidents in Metro Vancouver. A detour to Queensborough Bridge?
本拿比:Canada Way
The most congested section of Burnaby is not Kingsway, because the most congested section of Kingsway is the Joyce section, which belongs to Windon, and the real annoyance is the entrance to Canada Way & Kensington. Vehicles queued up to merge into Highway 1, the road design was not very reasonable, and there were many car accidents.
"All Bridges"
In the end, almost all of the people who participated in the survey agreed that all the bridges in Metro Vancouver were congested – the Port Mann Bridge was slightly better because it was wide enough, but the rest of the morning and evening rush hours were scratching.
In addition to the aforementioned Oak, Knight, Lions Gate, Second Narrow, Alex Fraser, Pattulo, and many more. There are too few bridges in Greater Vancouver, and everyone knows that it is almost impossible to build a new bridge in Greater Vancouver.
Whenever we talk about traffic jams in Vancouver, there are always people in first-tier cities who say, "Don't make a fuss, look at our Beijing, Shanghai, New York, Hong Kong, that's what is called congestion." ”
In fact, it's not that we Vancouvers are squeamish, as mentioned above - big city congestion, everyone knows that there are more people and more cars, and Vancouver is a medium-sized city congestion, and the fault can only be blamed on the roads that are too narrow and the bridges too few...... Who to talk to?