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Originally Posted by Changing City
The 71% of residents using transit on a daily basis isn't comparable to the 15% commute mode share here. Apparently (?) this report says the commute mode share for Prague was 37% in 2021 - so significantly more than Greater Vancouver, but not four times more. The proportion of the population here who take transit on a daily basis would be more than 15%, but the latest data seems to be the 2017 Trip Diary, and that doesn't have exactly that data (but 18% of all trips in the region were on transit). There was a 2023 survey, so maybe we'll get some better comparisons soon. |
I do read references. What you shared is data from a web form filled by 2000 Prague residents and 1000 residents in the region surrounding Prague in 22021 during Covid, which it mentions the number of trips by foot increased (35%..section 3.1 it says 39% so no idea what’s right but the people on this document at the front are politicians so probably why numbers don’t line up).
In any case the transit mode share is high. My point is Vancouver does not have nor can build in the foreseeable future l the infrastructure required to handle the density the government wants to create (or thinks they can create) in specific constrained area of the urban core. If they feel skytrain and some of the rapid bus routes are infrastructure that can handle the de suites they drew on napkins they are wrong. Again natural growth is and will happen. The policies do nothing for housing. What they do is force too much density into areas that can’t handle them (no the skytrain can’t hand triple or more the people living next to it and relying on it). And force is what it is. It’s the goal. And it’s achieved by pricing out residents with taxes and forcing them to sell to developers who will then build the density. The outcome won’t be good. And it will do nothing about the housing problem, there is only one solution for that and it’s none of these things. But well so do know who does benefit from this, one group.
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