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Originally Posted by fredinno
I'd be skeptical of 10+ across Vancouver. 5 story - townhouses is the 'missing middle density' that Vancouver generally seems to prefer outside the city centre, and a general compromise that is generally easier to get more NIMBYs to agree too. Not to mention it's the general density the suburbs are rezoning to outside the town Centres and tower clusters.
Also, getting NIMBYs to capitulate in one area is easier than the entire city. It's going to be hard enough to get townhouses in Point Grey.
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True on 10+, but despite the NIMBYs, we're already seeing 5+ all over. And three blocks of midrise = one block of highrise.
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Originally Posted by fredinno
Exactly, the streetcar is a secondary network intended to get people the extra km to Skytrain or Downtown without walking uphill or 20min. From that POV, putting density on 6th Ave actually improves the rationale for its existence by providing an anchor of less-serviced people over 5 min away from the subway. Double-articulated BRT could work too.
Speed is less a deal for these short distances vs capacity. Not to mention it has its own ROW (sort of).
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They'd be walking anyway if they needed to get east or west instead of downtown though. Or vice versa. Viewcones aside, putting the tram density along the metro route and the metro density along the tram route sounds like an SNL sketch.
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