Left turn at Pandosy

[Joe Public]

The left turn at Pandosy and the highway was removed last night. Did anyone notice?

[Always Sunny]

The left turn at Pandosy and the highway was removed last night. Did anyone notice?

South bound? That blows. Since there are no lefts at Abbott either, there's virtually no way to get into the Mission once you're in that lane headed towards the bridge (unless you can make it all the way to the right to loop around thru downtown).

Are there signs warning of this? Sorry, I'm in Ontario right now, I haven't seen this.

[dalejrfan]

Are you talking about the left turn on Pandosy to go to the bridge. I just came through there and it works just fine.

[GordonH]

Are you talking about the left turn on Pandosy to go to the bridge. I just came through there and it works just fine.

I would suspect its left off Harvey Ave (hwy 97) heading south/towards the bridge. If this is the case then Richter will used for ambulances instead of Pandosy.

[Always Sunny]

I would suspect its left off Harvey Ave (hwy 97) heading south/towards the bridge. If this is the case then Richter will used for ambulances instead of Pandosy.

If that's the case I would hope they clearly have a "no access to the Mission" type of sign back before Richter. If you're stuck unable to turn left from Harvey onto Pandosy, it's not like there's an option further on. You're basically going to be forced over the bridge at that point.

Wonder if the OP or anyone else can confirm which lane they're talking about. There's always the chance they never realized there's no turn onto Pandosy coming off the bridge (though that direction is Water Street anyways) or from Water east bound into Harvey.

[dodgerdodge]

The left turn at Pandosy and the highway was removed last night. Did anyone notice?

Seemed to be there today, there were vehicles in that turn lane turning left as i came through this afternoon.

[Atomoa]

it's not like there's an option further on. You're basically going to be forced over the bridge at that point.

Or you could make a right and a right and go straight thru Pandosy/gordon ect?

That light annoyed me. Welcome to Kelowna - we built a 5 lane bridge and put a useless stoplight at one end of it. Then we put another stoplight half a block up from it and gave a advanced left for one or two cars @ rush hour vs. 3 lanes of bridge traffic going northbound.

Less lights. Not more.

[dodgerdodge]

That light annoyed me. Welcome to Kelowna - we built a 5 lane bridge and put a useless stoplight at one end of it. Then we put another stoplight half a block up from it and gave a advanced left for one or two cars @ rush hour vs. 3 lanes of bridge traffic going northbound.

Less lights. Not more.

Agreed and to add to that comment the useless stoplight is only activated by crossing pedestrians. We see traffic backed up daily because 2 peeps with bikes want to cross. Why oh why did we not put a bridge or tunnel or something for the foot traffic?

[featfan]

What a mess this is going to be.
Watched a lot of vehicles try to turn left from 97 onto Pandosy yesterday.
2 cars in the intersection make it but usually 2 more went on the red.

[John500]

Kelowna so badly needs a bypass. But its not going to happen. The powers at be rather see us, and vacationing people, sit in idling traffic that hardly moves right thru the city, polluting the air and collecting more carbon taxes.

[WhenWhatWho]

Kelowna so badly needs a bypass. But its not going to happen. The powers at be rather see us, and vacationing people, sit in idling traffic that hardly moves right thru the city, polluting the air and collecting more carbon taxes.

Really? I would think it is about avaliable resources and priorities. The OK Valley isn't the only place in BC that needs roads, the BC government has spent a bundle in this valley lately..

[Joe Public]

The signal at Abbot coming off the bridge was supposed to be removed with the installation of the new bridge, which would have improved traffic greatly, but the Chamber of Commerce repeated complained to the BC Liberals that this would reduce tourist traffic flow through the downtown, and the signal was redesigned. It does not service just pedestrians but also services the left turn into the city demanded by the business community.

Some of you seem to confuse good traffic engineering and bad politics.

[Bsuds]

Some of you seem to confuse good traffic engineering and bad politics.

I think you mean Bad Engineering and Bad Politics = left turn where one shouldn't be.

[WhatThe]

All they've done is take out the advance green. We can still turn left there.

[Steve-O]

If you are south bound heading across to the westside, yes, you can still turn left onto Pandosy but like whatthe says, there is no longer an advance turn light. Pray for a break in traffic. Heading home from work this morning and traffic was backed up in the left lane past Ellis. Stupid move to remove the advance green at this intersection in my mind.