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Originally Posted by cabotp
One thing to remember about Mr Condon is he is not a tranportation expert.
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...except that he's got the cachet of being a university professor and he's writing articles and being quoted in a context which makes it seem to the uninitiated that he
is a transportation expert.
Broadway can and should be a walkable community. Heck, it's already a walkable community. But that doesn't mean that it's not ALSO a major
regional transportation corridor. There's a rapid transit line passing right underneath Broadway and Cambie right now - that certainly hasn't made the area any less pedestrian-friendly. In fact with all of the new development just south of the Cambie bridge there are far more pedestrians milling around than there was just a few years ago.
Is Skytrain more expensive? You betcha. But there's no sense in paying a billion dollars for an at-grade solution that
may have 20-25% more speed and capacity than the existing bus service and will be maxed out in a relatively short time. Far better to pay a couple of billion dollars for a solution that's got 2-3 times the speed, frequency and capacity with an expected service life of 50 years or more.
For the life of me I don't see why this isn't obvious to everyone.
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