Vancouver is undergoing some serious growth, even after years of development with condos and sprawling suburbs. Having just visited, I was again reminded of the sorry state of the transportation infrastructure in this finest of Canadian Cities.
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Yet there is even more to do in Metro Vancouver to provide a model for the future. While your metro area has many examples of great walkable urbanism, over 85 per cent of you still use the car for most of your travel needs around the region. That indicates a metro with an over-dependence on a single form of transportation and one land use option; the drivable suburban option.
There is a lot of good going on, but there is still a lot of improvement to be found. What do you love/hate about traveling around this city? Could America learn something from Vancouver?
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torbjorn 05.01.08 at 7:10 pm
Vancouver is an absolute Vancouver is an absolute mess when it comes to modern transport planning - it’s main downfall is getting around by car. Which, by the way, I didn’t do not owning one.
I was there a few weeks ago with family as a tourist so I got to see it from a driver’s perspective. Stress.
The problem was the explosive downtown population, and not having the infrastructure to support it. In a few years it may sort itself out, as people start to see that they can SkyTrain or walk downtown - or as development slows? If it ever does…
Cars downtown are just plain silly!