Barricades would have to be put up before 7:00 a.m.,
changed twice during the day and removed after 6:00
Peme Qur Contract provisions would require a minimum
of two hours overtime both morning and evening for
every day as long as the temporary bridge is in
place. This would be an onerous cost to the City.

Barricades can be knocked out of the way or
vandalized and there is no guarantee that they would
remain in place every day at the times that they are
Supposed to be in place. -This increases the hazard
that vehicles might enter the road in the wrong
direction at the wrong time.

The closure of Pitt River Road in one direction
morning and evening eliminates its use by buses
during that period of time. Highways have
specifically designed the structure to carry the
weight of buses on request from the Transit Company.

The suggested one-way system favors traffic leaving
the City rather than those entering the City to work

here.

At least in the west—bound direction, the traffic
would not be able to take full advantage of a one-way
bridge anyway because of the signal at the Lougheed
Highway which restricts traffic to a short part of
every two-minute cycle.

It has been mentioned that the Tunnel and the Lions
Gate Bridge are able to effectively reverse the direction of a
traffic lane several times per day. I would point out that
these uses of reversal lanes don't eliminate the opposite
direction of traffic but Simply reduce the number of lanes
which are available to the opposite direction. That is an
entirely different situation than whet we are talking about.
Furthermore, these two uses of reversal lanes depend heavily on
the use of lane traffic Signals and, in the case of the Tunnel,
the use of lane dividing posts which are placed and removed by

Highways Crews.

As part of the installation of the Bailey bridge the
Department of Highways is installing traffic signals at the
bridge. These will be sophisticated signals which will be
timed in such a way that the peak traffic direction gets the
longest part of each signal cycle. There is no question that
there will be delays to traffic using this route because of the
clearance time for the signals. However, some delay has to be
expected when a double lane bridge is replaced by a single lane
bridge. These delays will probably be no worse that the delays
which would otherwise be experienced by those vehicles which
must reroute around the City if the bridge operates as a
one-way bridge. Although there is a predominant peak

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