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Originally Posted by mikemhg
I'm laughing at how the Lion's Gate bridge still carries the same 3 lanes to this day, that it did 50 years ago. To think how much this city's population was grown from half a century ago, and yet much of our roads, and infrastructure remains the same, meanwhile we're carrying some of the highest prices for real estate in the modern world.
It's very bizarre, and unfortunate. BC has always had the reputation in Canada as the "Wild West" when it comes to government corruption. It makes me really wonder how much tax payer money has been siphoned away to darker means, rather than improving the much needed infrastructure this city really requires. It's baffling to me.
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I've been living in the GTA for almost a year now and traffic is just as bad here, if not worse. I also lived near Montreal for 5 months last year and the traffic is terrible there too.
I've come to realize that there's only so much $$ you can spend on infrastructure on the 2nd largest (by landmass) country in the world using taxes collected from a population size less than that of the state of California....
My contribution. Buddy's dad the day he bought his first new car after immigrating to Vancouver, Canada:
