Fourth Avenue Traffic Patterns Change Today
Brick work continued Sunday on 4th and Dominion curbs. Photos 250News
Prince George, B.C. – Motorists will have to set aside those engrained driving habits in the vicinity of Fourth Avenue as of today.
The City has spent the past few months making changes along Fourth, the most obvious of which is removing the one-way designation downtown and having a two-way traffic flow all the way up to Winnipeg Street. Crews have also been installing new signage and there have been a number alterations to curbsides.
On Sunday workers were busy putting the bricks into place on curbs at Fourth and Dominion.
New left turn lane on Fourth at Victoria
As well, as you’re heading west you’ll notice a new left turn lane has been added at Victoria Street.
And just a reminder. The old one-way signs will be gone and you’ll see new signs posted on streets intersecting with Fourth Avenue advising of the changes in traffic patterns.
Comments
Great! Now it’s going to take twice as long to get through downtown! :)
It takes 5 minutes to drive through down town dumbass…how could you possibly complain about that?
@axman
lol, at least you understand the point. Why should we have ANOTHER thoroughfare in downtown? we already have, you know, the fricken highway.
This is perfect, and will help slow down traffic when there are pedestrians around.
It will be interesting to see the bottleneck that’s going to form at that curve where 5th turns into 4th. Someone should go set up a camera. :)
I didn’t know we had thoroughfare through the downtown? With lights are nearly every intersection I’m not sure the highway counts.
Great, they will probably be changing back to a one way two years from now. It’s like they change the directions on 4th avenue with the seasons.
I still think this change was more about giving the Police access to the West and East of the City than it was about good governance and intelligent planning.
If they eventually put in the roundabout to connect 4th, 5th, and 3rd, then it would make some sense as far as the movement of traffic goes. One can hope that, that is the long term plan. Then if one is going East on fifth to a roundabout they can access 4th or 3rd and two way traffic. Same thing applies going West on 3rd or 4th, you would be able to access 5th.
Who knows.
People in this town can’t figure out how to merge, nevermind a roundabout. I agree it makes sense, but the majority of drivers in this town will need a refresher course with a driving instructor.
They have used a different set of lamp standards again, while the ones on fourth match those in the rest of the city, they are different than those on George St, 3rd Ave and the Gateway. Aside from the aesthetic side of it where nothing in the downtown area matches (not that the Gateway is really downtown), every time that they use a different style of lamp standard they have to carry more stock in the city maintenance yards.
On a slightly different note, I think there should either be no parking on Victoria street and make a bicycle lane on either side, or there should be no bicycles allowed. It is very dangerous for bikers because there is not enough room. After all, this is a highway and I don’t know of any other major centre where parking is allowed on a highway.
Ot, but bad accident on first last night, two people hit, one dead.
Regardless of the reason, this project should never have happened. It’s completely unnecessary and a waste of taxpayer money.
Johnny we can agree on that this 4th avenue fiasco was a colossal waste of tax payer dollars. People should remember at election time that its final price came in at double what the city estimated it would cost, and the city went ahead with it anyways.
I think Palopu’s idea of a traffic circle will now have merit at some point if this new 4th avenue change creates the kind of congestion that it appears it will. At what cost to the city is unknown, but a kind of result of the new change. I think a low cost solution for the downtown would be angled parking on 2nd avenue if all it cost was the cost of paint… but in this town they will likely rip out all the infrastructure just to change some paint on the road….
man the people here. SAVE SAVE SAVE, DONT SPEND MONEY ON ANYTHINGGGGGGGGGGGG. SAVE SAVE SAVE
phje. If you look at the Citys spending millions, and millions, of dollars, and look at their debt, over $100 Million dollars, then you woul see that Save, Save, Save, makes sense.
We can no longer afford the runaway spending that took place over the past 10/15 years.
phje: You’re probably one of those people who has $10000+ worth of credit card debt.
Maybe you could tell us, what is the benefit of this project to taxpayers for the almost $1 Million spent?
I found the new motto for PG!
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SAVEEEEEEEEEE
Looks like phje stepped on his own toe and can’t get off.
in all seriousness, use this as a time to broaden your mind. Find the positives, I know its hard, but try.
Broaden my mind? It’s ONE MILLION smackeroos. I do like to look on the bright side, but dude. That’s a lot of money for something that wasn’t really what I’d call a necessity. I could take all my cash and go buy a nice boat and it would be cool because I’d have the boat, but it would become decidedly less cool when I couldn’t pay my mortgage. And still that scenario would be better than this because a boat is so much more awesome than being able to drive two ways on a street.
RIP buckets of cash. :(
you care to much about money. Life is about more than that.
phje, you might not care about how the City spends taxpayer dollars, but there are many people who do.
O I care, absolutely I care, its just my end all. You should try the same.
*not my end all*
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