Arbutus: Greenway & Future Streetcar | Proposed

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The most realistic and easiest solution would have been the City purchasing the corridor at CP's asking price, converting the rail corridor to a multipurpose green-way and selling off plots of land to developers to off-set the cost of land acquisition and rehabilitation/construction costs.

Instead, the corridor is once again reclaimed by nature and property owners who are once again planting their community gardens near 57th Ave.

I think there's a very slim chance of this corridor ever being used for (commuter and industrial) rail transport, so we may as well have a seamless greenway to connect South Van to False Creek and downtown. Maybe even continue the greenway into downtown via a new pedestrian bridge connecting Kitsilano to English Bay.

Just wish the City wasn't so stubborn. They are fighting for developers over the people.