Safety of Ladner Trunk Road in Delta is questioned
Posted November 24, 2016 12:54 pm.
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DELTA (NEWS 1130) – With two serious crashes on Ladner Trunk Road in recent days, including one that left a local firefighter dead, people who live nearby are calling for action to improve safety.
This comes as Delta Police launch a review looking into crashes on a stretch of road in recent years. That stretch of Highway 10 between Ladner and Highway 91 is concerning to Deanne Darras, who lives on 104th Avenue and regularly drives there.
She says big-rigs often weave around bad patches of road and cross into other lanes, putting other drivers at risk. “They had just, this summer, re-done the water main on 104th Avenue, and they did work up to Highway 10 and around the corner on Highway 10,” explains Darras. “The patchwork they did was horrible. It’s so bad, that people were driving in the painted meridian to get around that portion.”
Darras wants bad sections of road to be totally repaved and a reduction in speed limits.
“It needs to be fully repaved and marked properly. People take it lightly. It’s called a highway, the speed limit is 80 km/h, but there are no major barriers. I think people think because it’s out in the country, they can freewheel as they please and drive as they want. There’s a big variance of speed as well. There are so many people that are scared to drive it, so they’re doing 60 km/h and then there’s all the people doing the speed limit, which is 80 km/h, so that makes it very difficult.”
She adds when you have that variety of speed, people often get frustrated.
Delta Police will look at five years’ worth of crash data as part of their look into this problem stretch.
Over the weekend, a firefighter driving to work died in a crash on Ladner Trunk Road between 104th and 112th Streets.
