Time for Vancouver to Tear Down Its Viaducts?

[IanS]

Originally Posted by mezzanine

True re:olympic trends. Look longer term.

But the longer term trend is interesting: car traffic to downtown in general has remained stable or has decreased in the past 20 years. Truck traffic on the viaducts have remained stable since 1996, and heavy truck traffic has decreased on the viaducts since the 1990s.

That may be right. As I recall, the City instructed Halcrow to proceed on the assumption that traffic would decrease going forward. That might also explain Halcrow's 15+ year timeline for removal of the viaducts, I suppose.