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Originally Posted by vangirl3
Great post Mr. X, but please... don't move Playland!
Playland is such an iconic attraction. Urbanizing it would get rid of its gritty, dated flavour. It just wouldn't be the same without the bad carnies, the scratchy PA, the smell of hay and horse dung, the 70's classic rock, the wooden roller coaster etc. It's such a testament to a different time and place...
Also, no zoo. We can watch animals in the wild in 3D...let's not capture them. Although, a sanctuary for rescued animals might be a good thing.
I like most of your other suggestions... here's some things that I'd like to see:
-an urban farm in Stanley Park and/or urban farms tended by kids on school lands
-a boxwood maze a la Hampton Court, but more challenging, in either Stanley Park of QE Park
-Trout Lake tarted up so it's like a classic European park (Luxembourg Gardens?)
-would love a classic kids carousel somewhere along the seawall or at Trout Lake
-musical and outdoor theatre events geared to parks on the skytrain system (QE, Trout Lake, Burnaby Lake)
In fact, I'd love it if the entire seawall was strategically peppered with things to do (carousel, mini golf, climbing wall). The idea would be that you bike, walk, run and periodically you can stop and do something fun.
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Great ideas you have there!
As for my Playland relocation idea, it's based on having a Zoo at Hastings Park. The Hastings Park Zoo wouldn't capture new animals, rather it would use the same animals that are currently at the poorly built and maintained Aldergrove Zoo.
And the zoo would be very much like the Vancouver Aquarium, it'll be a research and education centre and would take in orphans and animals that have been injured and can no longer survive in the wild. For instance, several dolphins at the Vancouver Aquarium are missing parts of their fins after being caught in Japanese fishing nets...and the Aquarium most recently rescued a sick and orphaned baby harbour porpoise - it'll likely stay at an aquarium for the rest of its life. The zoo would do the same thing with animals.
The zoo would move into Hastings Park including the Playland space. Playland would move to Creekside Park, except for Coaster - given its structural complexity. Coaster would remain at Hastings Park and could be left as an open attraction or a zoo attraction. Hastings Racecourse/Casino and Pacific Coliseum would also remain in the park.
But, the alternative could always be to turn my proposed zoo space at Hastings Park into an expansion of Playland.
