[Sheba]

Originally Posted by quobobo

This Vancouver Sun article was both interesting and amusing (mostly the latter)

The move runs contrary to the region’s growth strategy, he said, which is intended to spread out residential and office towers around transit stops to encourage more livability and fewer commutes into downtown.

For all the pouting and foot stomping (and there's a lot), they do have a point. There's complaints about traffic into downtown Van and trying to limit it. Then why try to build all the office space there instead of in more of a garden city mode, which seems to have been the plan (well at least for the rest of the region).

Other than downtown Van, there will be successful office space at Metrotown and possibly Brentwood (don't know the area well enough to say for sure) in Burnaby and eventually at Central City in Surrey. Beyond that there will be bands of industrial land and a lot of bedroom communities. How is that going to help travelling in the region?