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Originally Posted by Vin
Looks like Vancouver can't get anything to work. According to you, it looks like the City can't even implement a system to remove all dumpsters in alleys over time, and that the city's paver streets are somehow inferior and always result in looking "messy" while other places somehow make them work so well. Great faith you got there in our City Hall, but then again why am I not surprised. I suppose you are acknowledging that we are always inferior. 
FYI, if turned into a low-traffic or purely pedestrian street, pavers or cobblestones can last forever. |
It's not the traffic that puts asphalt holes in the pavers, it's broken water mains and new sewer connections. Even when they're replaced after being dug up (which doesn't always happen), they don't match, and it's almost impossible to relay them level without lifting a much larger area, and using equipment to level and firm the base. That's expensive and disruptive. The cortyard in front of the Chinese Cutural Centre is another area of terrible paving, with a serious flooding problem. That's supposed to be replaced sometime as well.
If the response to the City survey agrees that 1970's paving is the way for Gastown to remain, then maybe that's the way it'll stay. No doubt the fake names like Blood Alley will stick too.