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Tuesday, July 3, 2007

IKEA Coquitlam / Highway 1 Rant.


Okay, i go to IKEA once a year, and thats it. I dont like their stuff, but more importantly I dont like the experience. What a nightmare, especially at the coquitlam location on the weekend.

Oh my god, do you think for 1 second, that there is anyone in this city responsible for planning roads/access ways that has a clue what they are doing? The IKEA coquitlam store is the largest retail store in the province, and have you seen the access roads. Take a look at this image from google maps.

The large buiding you see on the right with a wave through it is IKEA, the exit point for Highway1 you can see to the left, doesn't take you to IKEA, but to an access road, for lougheed highway, which then allows you to skirt the outer perimeter of IKEA, and enter the parking lot through another access road. Can you imagine what kind of hell this creates on the weekends when thousands upon thousands of shoppers descend into Coquitlam in order to get a $1 breakfast, or 300 sawdust hotdogs for $1.50???

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