Editor:
The Overlanders traffic pattern management scheme, traffic stanchions grid layout and traffic guidance by on-site traffic controllers are the weakest and poorest I have witnessed in years during a bridge construction project.
The “courtesy” of alternating traffic from two lanes to one from Fortune Drive North and Tranquille Road are expected to meld right at the bridge entrance instead of two blocks before.
Inside-lane drivers cut in well in front of left lane patient drivers.
Worse, traffic from Summit Road West is backed for one to two miles during rush hour and is forced to “speed merge” into traffic from Lansdowne Street, which has right of way.
Clearly this intersection requires alternating courtesy merging.
An attempt at courtesy merging is provided by a posted sign “Turn Right on Red Light” to the general confusion of drivers attempting to create courtesy merging only to be honked at from speeding Landsdowne drivers believing they have right of way.
No traffic controller monitors provide guidance at this critical intersection.
The resulting traffic backing up on Summit Road almost to Thompson Rivers University.
Lastly, what appears to be poorly-trained traffic controllers on site, simply stand still with “Slow” signage providing no management of “courtesy merging” traffic control patterning which should be put into effect immediately at the two key traffic confluences.
B.G Hitchens
Kamloops
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