I looked through the Information Bulletin for the RAV line, and it seemed full of useful information, but then I couldn't actually figure out some things. The schedule highlights has a table that looks like:
Construction Schedule: Aug 2005 to Mid 2008.
Aug 2005 Construction Phase Begins
Late 2005-Mid 2008 Cut & Cover Tunnel Construction along Cambie
(const on Cambie between 12th and 29th Aves begins early 2007)
Early 2006-Early 2009 Construction at Station Location
There's a Construction Overview section for 29th Avenue to 12th Avenue, and it says Construction window:
29th Avenue to 12th Avenue: early 2007 to late 2007
The Construction Overview section for 12th to 2nd Ave says Construction window:
12th avenue to 2nd Avenue: early 2007 to late 2008.
There's also a Stations: Locations and Description table, that says:
Cambie/King Edward: Construction late 2006 - mid 2008.
What the heck is going on here? The schedule highlight table says construction ends Mid-2008 then even calls out construction at Station locations going to Early 2009. The schedule highlight table says construction on Cambie ends mid 2008, and then the specific 12th/2nd section says it ends late 2008.
I don't even know where the Construction Schedule Highlight "mid-2008" date comes from, as the stations are finished in Early 2009 and the 2nd-12th finishes late 2008. The summary for Cambie section says it finishes mid 2008, yet the 4 sections are listed as finishing early 2007 (63rd-37rd), late 2007 (29-12), early 2007 (37-29), and late 2008 (12th-2nd). Seems totally bogus and confusing to me. I have no idea when construction on 12th-29th will actually finish.
And a final kicker, under the "Traffic Management" section, there's a line that says the goals are to "mimimize disruption to the current mobility levels.." and "maintain the safe and efficient movement of the traveling public". Then there's a little bullet that says
- In Vancouver, vehicle traffic will move along Cambie Street throughout the construction period, though in some cases the number of through lanes will be reduced.
So taking cambie street from 6 lanes to 2 lanes for every construction period ( while main street goes from 6 vehicle lanes to 4 vehicle lanes and granville street goes from 6 vehicle lanes to 4 vehicle lanes) is worthy of just a "in some cases the number of through lanes will be reduced". There is going to be total gridlock by design, and yet they are marketing as there goals are to maintain efficient transit and minimize disruption. They should have combined these words in a different manner and said they want to maintain disruption and minimize efficiency.
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