Won’t this lower air pollution by reducing idling and helping traffic move more quickly?
For over 40 years, road-building projects have demonstrated one principle: any increased capacity only invites more vehicles to travel the route and in a few years traffic will have returned to a standstill. Even if vehicle speeds increase on the highway, there is no capacity to handle additional traffic on local streets where highway access points are planned. Widening the #1 Highway, in particular, will allow for more automobile-dependent development in the Lower Mainland. The ecological impacts will be significant: more agricultural land will be destroyed and pollution levels will rise.
