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Originally Posted by Prometheus
The waterfront transportation hub is the very nexus of Metro Vancouver's transit network. It is the primary portal through which hundreds of thousands of people flow in and out of Vancouver's downtown core and central business district each day. How could any sane city council envision the future waterfront hub as anything less than the granddaddy of all transportation oriented developments, a soaring citadel of business, entertainment and hospitality?
A site this important to the city's future economic competitiveness cannot be squandered on the artificially circumscribed plans the current city council has in mind. A bold and ambitious vision is required.
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Total agreement. This city council (it seems, from a distance) wants to turn Vancouver into Pleasantville Green - - - which is fine, as long as the essential infrastructure isn't sacrificed in the process. But Vancouver city seems to be into "cutesy" sort of stuff, and SEEMS (IMO) to have lost "the big picture" and the ability to project 20 or 30 years (or even less) down the road.
Look at Toronto and Montreal, and what they have.
Think of SF and the Transbay Center coming down the pipe .....
http://transbaycenter.org/
Perhaps Vancouver will only
think big when it reaches a larger size (4 million plus?) or when the transportation system is choked to the hilt and becomes less than efficacious.
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