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Originally Posted by Veleno
My wife and I bought last year in the the Interurban building across the street that you see in the first picture.
Cons
- Uphill if you need to go to uptown New West, but you could just take an Evo carshare soon and most things are available downtown anyways.
- Columbia street can be noisy, and I'd imagine it's similar or worse facing Front Street because it's the truck route. On the upside, trains will stop whistling at the crossings very shortly.
- Traffic? I rarely drive during rush hour, but if I do it takes 45mins - 1 hr to/from downtown vs. 30mins without traffic.
- A lot of new towers will be built in the coming years and although I'm not looking forward to the construction traffic and noise, I do support increased supply and density.
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I'm looking as well but who told you the whistling at these crossings with be gone shortly?
The only way for the whistling to be gone is if New West ponies up a lot of money for insurance reasons.
Which is rare...but happens. Heck in North Van, when those new towers were built, I thought they would have done with it too. But my buddy lives in one and still there. Food for thought.
And those tracks are used by a couple of railways. So train noise throughout the night I figure. Guess it's not that bad, if you don't really have any complaints about it. Good to know. I figured it would be shaking the windows from time to time
And traffic is nightmarish during rush hours. The semi truck traffic trying to save on the port man fees, going along columbia to the patullo is brutal. Then you got cars who take side streets to avoid it. And there's always something happening on that stretch.