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Originally Posted by aberdeen5698
I think the biggest issue is that buildings can have frontage on a ground-level street whereas that's pretty difficult to do with the viaducts, particularly given the fact that they won't last as long as newly constructed buildings will.
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With that thinking we should also not be building Vancouver House around the Granville Street Bridge because that building will last muchy longer than the bridge... Same with anything around the Expo Line guideway.
Fact is engineering reports conducted by Translink and the Province only a few years ago (just before this debate started) stated that the viaducts were in excellent condition (better than most bridge structures around). Amazingly, the city of Vancouver did their own study (just after this debate started) and stated that the viaducts were in terrible state and need to be torn down (I am surprised no journalist has ever pointed out this amazingly corrupt report).
All tower plans just before this debate were going to build in and around with streetfront retail and plaza access to False Creek. The viaducts are in good shape and simple ipkeep can keep them around for many decades to come (just as we can do with the Granville Bridge and Burrard Bridge).
The city of Vancouver is doing to the viaducts what Republicans in the USA to do transit, choke it off and make it fail.
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