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Originally Posted by Migrant_Coconut

Perhaps it's best to define "large" and "along." It's the Broadway CORRIDOR, and it runs from Cambie to Arbutus; if projects within a three-block radius don't count, then neither does three-quarters of Metrotown and Brentwood and Whalley; within a ten-block radius, the suburbs are still suburbs.

Crosstown and the Arbutus Pinnacle are as dense as three of Richmond Centre's condos put together; if either is "small," then so is all of Richmond. Width is as important as length, sometimes moreso.

How many rapid transit lines between Granville and Cambie have been built over the last twenty years? One, and it took ten years for an Oakridge-sized project to get off the ground; Burnaby sat on Metrotown for twenty years after the SkyTrain station opened before they decided to build highrises. Broadway outside of VGH (you'll note that the "large" projects are mostly hotels and medical buildings) didn't kick off until the the last ten to fifteen years, and then talks of a SkyTrain prompted all the developers to wait for a land value increase before building. There's more to density than click-dragging to rezone, switching to Cheetah Speed and magically getting a bunch of towers.

Downtown Vancouver had been a dense neighbourhood for 100 years before the Expo line was built. What is the rationale that skytrain must come in before all? The reality is that West Broadway and the surrounding Fairview slopes have been underbuilt for decades.