Many more services for home delivery than the past. Amazon, groceries, internet, online banking, liquor stores,_ probably cannabis_ too, online education, online employment for many office types, cable and antenna entertainment.....+° Many people in transport , when a few people in transport can achieve the same results efficiently?
( tell the vehicle and road builders that transportation in much decline)
BOB Kenward - 6 years ago
Our village needs to be a metropolis. Thinking about doing dozens of projects would worry me; But three?
This controversy is Burnaby Mayor Corrigan. It's under his reign that multiresidential rentals were demolished, social services were not increased and benefited from new transit and road services. Nonetheless a 4 lane Patullo replacement should include a rapid transit option (two transit lines can handle as many commuters as 8 road lanes). So for those who have seen effective transit and see the benefit of the Expo, Canada and Evergreen lines lets take on more than 3 projects with the view of making our grandchildren's life's better.
Censure Corrigan and his cynical ilk.
Roderick Louis - 6 years ago
An articulated-Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system- similar to the one that ran through Richmond along number 3 Road, before the Canada Line commuter rail was built, would be perfectly adequate for the city of Vancouver- instead of building a 3 billion dollar subway along a small portion of Broadway that will only go part way to UBC...
The time required to build a Vancouver BRT system for the whole of Broadway- that would go ALL the way to UBC, is less than one-year, while costing less than 25 percent of the mad-house Broadway subway proposal...
Problem is none of the affected municipal politicians have the ethics and integrity to vote for dedicating 2 of Broadway's 7 lanes for exclusive use by a BRT system (and high-occupancy and commercial vehicles) and the ground-level BRT stations that would be required...
Problem is similar"South of the Fraser", in Surrey and the two Langleys:
None of the region's municipal politicians are ethical enough to demand that the provincial govt contribute to paying for the design and building of a commuter rail network throughout Surrey and the two Langleys that is as good as or better than the city of Vancouver's 3 separated-from-roadway, computer-driven commuter rail lines (Expo Lin, Millennium Line, Canada Line):
Instead, a nineteenth century street car system is about to be foisted on these 3 cities- despite their being, by far, bigger than the city of Vancouver (256 square miles vs 44 sq miles); faster growing: 18,000 new residents annually vs 3400...
BC govt politicians should be asked why they have not expedited the building of a separated-from-roadway, computer-driven (Sky-Train-like) commuter rail network throughout the cities Surrey and the two Langleys...
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Instead, we get stupid discussions in the news media about whether massively expensive, poorly thought out mega projects should be built in sequence or all at once.... with no one publicly discussing the appropriateness of the proposed designs of each of the mega projects...
Jan Tize - 6 years ago
Vancouver needs this infrastructure sooner rather than later. The money is there, it only needs competent management - if not in house project management, there are enough companies that will to manage it for translink
Arif Dewji - 6 years ago
It’s absurd to think that all three projects could not be done simultaneously. It shows lack of capable and competent management at translink. In addition, they should be throwing skytrain extension from Coquitlam Maple Ridge in the mix.
Many more services for home delivery than the past. Amazon, groceries, internet, online banking, liquor stores,_ probably cannabis_ too, online education, online employment for many office types, cable and antenna entertainment.....+° Many people in transport , when a few people in transport can achieve the same results efficiently?
( tell the vehicle and road builders that transportation in much decline)
Our village needs to be a metropolis. Thinking about doing dozens of projects would worry me; But three?
This controversy is Burnaby Mayor Corrigan. It's under his reign that multiresidential rentals were demolished, social services were not increased and benefited from new transit and road services. Nonetheless a 4 lane Patullo replacement should include a rapid transit option (two transit lines can handle as many commuters as 8 road lanes). So for those who have seen effective transit and see the benefit of the Expo, Canada and Evergreen lines lets take on more than 3 projects with the view of making our grandchildren's life's better.
Censure Corrigan and his cynical ilk.
An articulated-Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system- similar to the one that ran through Richmond along number 3 Road, before the Canada Line commuter rail was built, would be perfectly adequate for the city of Vancouver- instead of building a 3 billion dollar subway along a small portion of Broadway that will only go part way to UBC...
The time required to build a Vancouver BRT system for the whole of Broadway- that would go ALL the way to UBC, is less than one-year, while costing less than 25 percent of the mad-house Broadway subway proposal...
Problem is none of the affected municipal politicians have the ethics and integrity to vote for dedicating 2 of Broadway's 7 lanes for exclusive use by a BRT system (and high-occupancy and commercial vehicles) and the ground-level BRT stations that would be required...
Problem is similar"South of the Fraser", in Surrey and the two Langleys:
None of the region's municipal politicians are ethical enough to demand that the provincial govt contribute to paying for the design and building of a commuter rail network throughout Surrey and the two Langleys that is as good as or better than the city of Vancouver's 3 separated-from-roadway, computer-driven commuter rail lines (Expo Lin, Millennium Line, Canada Line):
Instead, a nineteenth century street car system is about to be foisted on these 3 cities- despite their being, by far, bigger than the city of Vancouver (256 square miles vs 44 sq miles); faster growing: 18,000 new residents annually vs 3400...
BC govt politicians should be asked why they have not expedited the building of a separated-from-roadway, computer-driven (Sky-Train-like) commuter rail network throughout the cities Surrey and the two Langleys...
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Instead, we get stupid discussions in the news media about whether massively expensive, poorly thought out mega projects should be built in sequence or all at once.... with no one publicly discussing the appropriateness of the proposed designs of each of the mega projects...
Vancouver needs this infrastructure sooner rather than later. The money is there, it only needs competent management - if not in house project management, there are enough companies that will to manage it for translink
It’s absurd to think that all three projects could not be done simultaneously. It shows lack of capable and competent management at translink. In addition, they should be throwing skytrain extension from Coquitlam Maple Ridge in the mix.