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Originally Posted by tybuilding
Adding a freeway to Vancouver is impracticable and expensive and unnecessary. People commuting to downtown should switch to transit. With parking at $20 a day you would be stupid to commute downtown in my opinion.
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If we could get rid of the single vehicle occupants commuting to downtown Vancouver then we wouldn't have any congestion in the tunnel.
I'll say the same thing about the tunnel as I said about the Port Mann bridge - rather than increasing capacity we can solve the congestion problem by simply implementing tolls. Increasing capacity will increase vehicle traffic and reduce transit usage. Adding tolls will do the opposite.
Of course it's political suicide, but IMHO it's the most sensible thing to do if you look at the big picture.