It's not like that, continuously. It sucks when your neighbourhood gets congested, too. Craigflower gets backed way up during rush hours, so does Tillicum.

Have a look, this is centred on Westhills, as of 11:55AM. No problems:

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I know what the traffic looks like I'm out there enough due to family visits etc. And never at 11:55 on a business day :). But weekends....ugh. At its worst it reminds of Vancouver. And our area never looks like that. Although thanks to the new bike lanes on Tilicum just past the Gorge Rd intersection which cut out one car lane on Tillicum, it certainly does get backed up at late afternoon rush hour no doubt about that.

Used to just be “gorge”. At some point through gentrification it became “Selkirk gorge” similar to Langford and colwood upgrading.

I know what the traffic looks like I'm out there enough due to family visits etc. And never at 11:55 on a business day :). But weekends....ugh. At its worst it reminds of Vancouver. And our area never looks like that. Although thanks to the new bike lanes on Tilicum just past the Gorge Rd intersection which cut out one car lane on Tillicum, it certainly does get backed up at late afternoon rush hour no doubt about that.

Unless something changed dramatically in the last 5 months, I have never had a problem getting on or off the mountain. Sometimes get stuck behind a slow moving cement truck or something going up the hill, but other than that - nada.

Unless something changed dramatically in the last 5 months, I have never had a problem getting on or off the mountain. Sometimes get stuck behind a slow moving cement truck or something going up the hill, but other than that - nada.

Me either; getting up or down the hill is fine its the general volume of traffic whenever I happen to venture out there I dislike. That plus IMO the sterile nature of all that development jam-packed from Costco on leaves me cold. Definitely all very much "Stew's Vision", both the good but also the bad.

They blew away that entire section directly across from Costco including putting in a school and literally stripped away all the trees and green canopy in the process. Between that and once the old western speedway site is fully built out I'm sure traffic will be even that much more fun.

Up on top of Skirt Mtn itself the 'village' is ok but not my thing to be sure. On the last, newest section of the parkway connecting back down to the main highway they did the same thing, literally removing every vestige of green in order to jam as many new homes into the place as possible (see top picture above). Makes for a nice view no doubt from the houses looking down, but its fugly looking at it from the perspective of that image, or from the highway as you pass Skirt Mtn on your way up-island. Even my sister who is a big fan of the community (obviously, she lives there) hates what they did in this latest development.