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Originally Posted by Burquitlaman
It's not wishful thinking, it's obvious to me that it's happening. 24 years ago when we immigrated to Canada, the Fraser Valley, Coquitlam, most of Burnaby etc... were wastelands. Look at them now. And it mostly began over the past 10-15 years.
Vancouver is tired and old. We need new ideas. A new economy. Less focus on Vancouver's problems and needs and more focus on what the rest of the city cares about.
We need industry and manufacturing. Burnaby and Fraser Valley can provide that (more land, growing populations, cheaper rents etc.). Public transport funds need to mostly go where the future is.
Vancouver's left wing politics are a drag on the rest of the Metro. The whole region suffers the consequences. Politicians bend to Vancouver's demands b/c DT is still king.
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The more the population shifts East the less power Vancouver will have.
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This is such wishful thinking. Vancouver is not tired and old? It is currently what Metrotown, Whatley, etc want to be in 30 years. And left wing? Vancouver is pretty on the right compared to other cities like it, and moreso than most Metro Vancouver councils right now. It has the most YIMBY council too, so while in the past few years it has been outbuilding Surrey in New starts (check CMHC for more info), the Broadway Plan is going to bring Vancouver up from quarter of starts to probably over a third. Vancouver's downtown is expanding beyond the peninsula and there's no sign of it slowing down.
And the idea that Vancouver holds too much power is laughable. Vancouver constantly gets shafted when it comes to infrastructure. South of Fraser gets a bunch of new bridges, highway expansions, and a new Skytrain extension, meanwhile Vancouver can't even get Skytrain to UBC which would have way more ridership. South of Fraser's problems are a result of sprawl because of Vancouver's nimbyism, but the tide on that has completely switched. Watch Vancouver continue to outbuild Surrey in the next decade.
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