Well guys this saturday was the last outing on the c/v for me. Same outcome as I started, thanks for all the tips though (unfortunately they did not help 😂)

sold

Sage 3106 / 350 bucks
Specs in pic
link below to pics
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1179961809831228/

well thank God they will focus on enhancements for Nathan Creek which is the most important cutthroat spawning & nursery stream (plus coho and chum)  below the Mission Bridge. It continues to be threatened by development in it's upper watershed.

Bradner rest area will be worked on as part of this project

https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/transportation/transportation-infrastructure/contracting-to-transportation/highway-bridge-construction/unofficial-tender-documents/project-no-13253-1001

"Description: Widening of Highway 1 to accommodate new High Occupancy Vehicle, Bus on Shoulder, and Auxiliary lanes; including replacement of the Bradner Road overpass structures. Construction of a new Multi-Use Path adjacent to Highway 1. Expansion and rehabilitation of the Bradner Rest Area and construction of new environmental enhancements at Nathan Creek."

Still amuses me. People are always more interested in the freak show.

The problems at Bradner and Cole Roads should be straight forward to fix. There is an 8 hour stay limit at all Highway rest areas so they just need to enforce it. Whose responsibility is it? Highways, Abbotsford Police or the RCMP?

I know of several spots in Burnaby that sometimes collect the Nomad camper van homeless as well as the camp out druggies. City employees move them out. They give them a notice and if they don't go they seize tents. That's what most people want though most of those people don't cause problems beyond the obvious health issues.

Redesign the rest spots. Close Bradner and replace it. It was one of the first. It's too big, there is too much parking, the walk to the john is too long and it's location causes a traffic headache. I don't stop there unless I am desperate as it can be all but impossible to leave coming as it does right after the west bound climbing lanes switch from 3 lanes to 2. Access to brush and natural areas should be fenced - that's what was done years ago at the Johnson Slough stop.

I'd also say we need more highway rest stops particularly given frequent traffic conditions that can strand a driver and passengers in a car for hours. There is no rest stop on Hwy 7 from Vancouver to Hope other than Johnson Slough. But they should be built to purpose and not serve as all day picnic sites or free camping with flush toilets

Rest rv stop at Cole road is bad too. Forget about a tourist pulling in there with a big rv. No room.

After a long day on the road Saturday and heading back home to Chilliwack I needed a pit stop at Cole rd. What a sad state of affairs. Really sad that tourists on the road are welcomed by this kind of crap when simply trying to find a place to REST or rest their bladders while on the road.
We have had to stop at Bradner before as well, and I agree Its even worse for those travelling west in need of a facility.

Ya bradner is extra nasty.

I do the plumbing maintenance for bradner and cole road rest stops.      When I go to brander I’m supposed to get security.   Cole road isn’t that bad.   Bradner has lots going on.   From the trails behind it that I won’t talk about.  (Just don’t walk in the trees) trust me.    It has the heads that live there and people working out of it.      It’s messed up.  But word on the street is it’s getting shut down !!!    Way to much crime. And garbage.      But back to Squamish vally road I just got home. And I can report no abandoned camps.  Other than a First Nation log salvage camp at Km 40 on G main.    It’s a mess looks like a grizzly went through it garbage thrown around.  Gas and oil cans everywhere.    Unless it wasn’t the bears that made the mess !!!!!!

Irony is where I live is surrounded by new housing developments. I can look out my front window and see 3 multi story towers close to finished. Below them is a 2 level luxury complex... beautiful homes with large balconies. It's all condos. Condo towers are sprouting like mushrooms all over town. The free market doesn't support the down and out.  Affordable rental housing is something they buy to tear down. So the down and out have to camp out in the cold. There but for the grace of good luck go you and I.

I think people need to talk to their Local government and MLAs to get more affordable rental housing zoning and construction.