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Originally Posted by mikemhg
Have you not been reading the headlines speaking about how Vancouver's economic future could be in serious danger due to the issues people are having getting into the Downtown Core, clearly I'm not the only person with these complaints. My job actually requires me to have my vehicle, at times I will need to leave the office to meet clients. I plan to bike to work this summer, but if you think Brentwood is far from Downtown Vancouver, you are crazy.
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Definitely agree with your point, which is why you can almost understand why the City of Vancouver is promoting public transit and other ways of getting downtown (such as bike infrastructure) for people who don't need their car for business but choose to drive because they don't want to deal with the riff-raff on public transit so people like you who need their car for business can get around the city. But, hey, people didn't vote in favour of the transit tax (because they think that somehow sending a message to the province is actually going to force them to reform/dismantle Translink) and people bitch about bike lanes (when if given the opportunity to try them the infrastructure is actually very, very good).
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Originally Posted by mikemhg
We all know there are not many entry ways coming from Burnaby/East Vancouver into the downtown core, so one has to wonder this city's logic when we allow construction to completely shut down, or severely slow the few entry ways we have into the city.
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Up until a few years ago, there was a huge demand for office space in the downtown core. The city did the logical thing and approved construction of new office towers. You either build slowly and risk losing anchor tenants, or you deal with the inconvenience now so the anchor tenants can set up shop, employ people, and increase the tax base. I don't know what I would do if I was in the planner's chair, but it's easy to see why the city made the decisions it did.
The road system is what it is. The city and province aren't exactly interested in expropriating land (politically impossible and very expensive) to serve a minority of people who need to drive around the city to do business.