Time for Vancouver to Tear Down Its Viaducts?

[Zassk]

Originally Posted by kylemacmac

Ripping out the viaducts and expanding skytrain down Hastings to the PNE and down Broadway to UBC would send a clear message about the direction the city wants to take, and force the issue of higher transit use.

Sure, build rapid transit down Broadway and Hastings, but why would you tear out perfectly functional mid-life road infrastructure? Even if you got massive amounts of commuters to switch onto new transit lines, why would you want to force all remaining commercial traffic off of the viaducts and onto city streets? It defies logic. Even if you completely closed them to commuters, the viaducts are exactly the kind of commercial traffic corridor that the downtown peninsula needs.