How many roads are there in Victoria?

So, before getting started, I'm going to make a guess of what I've taken on.

The challenge is to cover every road in Victoria, I've taken 'Victoria' to mean Victoria and the surrounding areas / districts.

So the municipality 'City of Victoria' has a total of 258km.

Unfortunately, I've made my life difficult and included Esquimalt, Oak Bay and some of Saanich!

Municipal boundary map of around Victoria.

Municipal boundary map of around Victoria.

Just a finger in the air here, but it looks like Victoria covers 1/4 of my area, so I'm looking at just over 1,000km. On one of these:

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