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Every day, I must travel after work from the old CP Rail Station to the University Bridge. It’s a five-minute drive if you Google it. For the past six months, it typically takes me between 23 and 28 minutes to get to the bottom of the bridge and another five at least to cross it.

Since the closure of lanes on the Sid Buckwold Bridge, traffic has been diverted to using 25th Street. The lights are timed ridiculously. I can sit through three or four lights sometimes, waiting for the line of traffic stuck in the intersection to move and free up enough space for two or three cars going my direction. It’s beyond frustrating. Each light allows for a couple of cars to go through and the turning vehicles getting in the same lane jut out three or four long after the next light has changed. How is this okay?

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Twenty-eight minutes for a five-minute drive. Every single work day.

When the Sid Buckwold Bridge was fully open, the 25th Street traffic was thick enough. Now it’s beyond ridiculous. What used to be typically a 10 or 15 minute commute is now at least 35-45 minutes every day. You can’t shut down high traffic areas without altering the other routes/lights/stops, somehow.

Well, apparently you can, especially if it’s not your commute every day.

Rita Moate

Saskatoon

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