In the wake of a deadly accident on the Sea to Sky Highway, a Squamish resident has started an online petition asking the province to improve the road.
More than 1,200 people have signed the petition as of Tuesday 10:50 a.m.
The collision killed two Squamish men and injured five other locals near Alice Lake on Jan. 2.
The deaths were said to have affected the town’s Indo-Canadian community.
"As citizens of Squamish BC, a commuter city, we have concerns about the risks citizens face driving along our dangerous highways,” reads Gagan Chagger’s petition on Change.org. “Our citizens are put at risk driving to Whistler on a daily basis and something needs to be put into action.”
The petition, directed to Transport Minister Claire Trevena, calls on the province to put concrete barriers that would separate opposing lanes.
“Concrete barriers would prevent cars that slip and lose control from entering the opposite lane,” Chagger writes. “Safety can be easily increased by reducing the impact of vehicle collisions with these concrete barriers. We need to reduce the crash continuity of the vehicle during its collision which would be possible with barriers separating the two opposing lanes. The barrier will absorb the vehicles force when it crashes and will direct it in another direction to prevent collision with the opposing car.”
As of now, no cause for the accident has been determined.
Authorities continue to investigate.
