Time for Vancouver to Tear Down Its Viaducts?

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Originally Posted by Prometheus

The above scenario is preposterous. To begin with, it assumes that every one of these 3,000 to 5,000 people worked in the downtown core and were formerly commuters, that employment in the downtown core will remain static, and that these 3,000 to 5,000 formerly-commuting suburbanites will never be replaced by 3,000 to 5,000 new commuting suburbanites.

Stop splitting hairs. The bottom line is that more people living near downtown means fewer people commuting from the burbs. Who knows what the exact levels will be but it means less traffic and congestion. Even if they do drive, they will be driving shorter distances and thus using less road space and creating less congestion.