Oh Christ not this debate again
Welcome to world war 3 transit style in Vancouver.
In one corner you have the people like me who support a rapid transit (aka skytrain extension) to UBC.
In the other corner you have what I consider to be the whack job group who want to ride a nice looking at grade train so they can see all the nice shops as the train slowly goes through traffic. Of course they fail to realize that people don't give a damn about those shops and just want to get to where they are going as quickly as possible.
One big flaw in Mr Condon's idea is that not everyone lives in an area where everything is close to them. At some point they have to travel outside of that area. Which is why you need something more rapid and limited stopped as a back bone system.
That isn't to say that street cars are not good and they would be great as feeder routes. But a street car would never be good on a route like Broadway which is seriously missing a back bone system that moves masses of people quickly.