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[paradigm4]

Haha not sure if I agree that Richmond Centre is one of the best malls in the Lower Mainland...

[metroXpress]

Originally Posted by paradigm4

Haha not sure if I agree that Richmond Centre is one of the best malls in the Lower Mainland...

Oh come on...zeppytech is from France!

[SpongeG]

metrotown is better

but richmond centre is top 5

[Vancity]

whatever happened to the playdium in Metrotown anyways? They should bring back the Rainforest Cafe. I've been there a few times, and I love it. It's such a fun place to eat and enjoy your time. They should bring it to Richmond Centre, or Oakridge Mall. If Playdium ever comes back, they need to bring it to Richmond. man, it would be so much fun to have something like that nearby =)

[SpongeG]

Originally Posted by Zeepy Tech

Metrotown is severely over rated. And Richmond Centre is severely under rated. For me its about quality over quantity. Yes Metrotown is bigger but thats the only thing its got over Richmond Centre. Metrotown's design on the inside is too confusing. And half the mall's shops are crappy little mom and pop asian stores selling fake clothes, cell phone face plates, etc. Like I said its about quality over quantity. Richmond Centre looks nicer on the inside and outside, its easy to navigate, and all the shops are real shops, not fake clothing stores. Anything you can get at Metrotown, you can get at Richmond Centre. Metrotown used to be kind of unique when it had the Rain Forest Cafe and Playdium but now its just blah.

to each his own

I don't hate richmond centre but metrotown has all the stores one needs

[Metro-One]

The movie theater, T&T plus great access to public transit keeps metrotown on top for me.

[vansky]

After my visit of hong kong last yr...guess what i'm gona say next,


you know it...



You guys think this city has a mall other than the pacific center!?


metro isn't as good as richmond center in terms of design, i know that since 12. But i didn't know that richmond center isn't even as good as a real mall? i only know that from last yr. Anyways, metro is good if you never see a mall. Frankly I think the "best interior design" goes to yvr.

[djmk]

i believe the current metrotown is the amalgamation of three separate malls, Eaton Center, Station Square and Metrotown. and once Ivanhoe got control of all three, did it become Metropolis.

but i regress, all malls suck.

[CBeats]

Governments tackle North Shore traffic bottleneck with stimulus spending


BY DERRICK PENNER, VANCOUVER SUNAPRIL 7, 2009 12:22 PM




An aerial view of the Lions Gate Bridge, from the North Shore to the Stanley Park side.
Photograph by: Ian Smith, Vancouver Sun files
Easing the traffic bottleneck for transit buses on Marine Drive as they approach the Lion's Gate Bridge will be the largest task on the next list of infrastructure projects financed under government stimulus programs unveiled Tuesday.

The Marine Drive transit project, estimated to cost $40 million, will be one of 28 worth $290 million to be financed jointly under the Canada/B.C. infrastructure partnership.

"Every job counts," Premier Gordon Campbell said in the announcement news release, "and this investment partnership will help create more than 1,800 direct jobs as well as further stimulate the economy through improved movement and traffic flows."

The federal government has set aside $116.6 million from its $4-billion infrastructure stimulus fund for the projects, B.C. will contribute $134.7 million and other local governments and agencies will provide $38.8 million of the money.

Some 500 jobs are expected to be created in the Marine Drive project, which will involve replacing the existing Capilano River bridge, known as the "blue bridge," with a three-lane bridge and the construction of queue-jumping lanes for buses heading into Vancouver.

TransLink and the municipalities of West Vancouver and North Vancouver will also extend transit-only lanes on the approaches to the bridge and addition of transit priority to existing traffic signals at Marine Drive's intersections with Taylor Way and Capilano Road.

To begin late in 2009, construction on the Marine Drive project should be complete by March 2011.

Other major projects on the list of 28 include:

• Grade separation of Nelson Road in Richmond, $26.9 million.

• Upgrade of the McCallum Road interchange in Abbotsford, $25 million.

• Construction of an interchange at McTavish Road in Saanich, $24 million.

• Replacing the Stone Creek Bridge on Highway 97 near Prince George, $28 million.

This list of projects follows on the March 13 announcement of 161 community projects worth $48 million under B.C.'s Towns for Tomorrow and LocalMotion programs with help from the federal infrastructure stimulus fund.

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http://www.vancouversun.com/Governments+...ith+stimulus+spending/1473965/story.html


This will be great for those of us who know how much of a pain it can be to bus downtown on a friday night from West Van - it takes 20 minutes to get out of Park Royal!

I don't really understand their plans to replace the Cap Bridge - there are 2 bridges there for a total of 5 lanes or something. Are they gonna replace both of them (the metal green one and the ugly concrete one) with a 3 lane, or just the metal green one? That metal green one is really old and in bad shape, and the lanes are fairly narrow.
Anyway, this'll be good.

[officedweller]

Sounds like just the green metal bridge is being replaced - and sounds like a queue bus lane jumper to the old bridge for eastbound/southbound buses.

[SFUVancouver]

^ Short of replacing the Lions Gate, what do you propose?

[SpongeG]

Originally Posted by djmk

i believe the current metrotown is the amalgamation of three separate malls, Eaton Center, Station Square and Metrotown. and once Ivanhoe got control of all three, did it become Metropolis.

but i regress, all malls suck.

Station Square is owned by a different company still i thought? they had grand plans to renovate but that never seemed to happen

that one big empty theatre space should become Crate & Barrel

[LeftCoaster]

Station square is owned by Anthem Properties, they have plans to renovate it and build condos but the plans seem to have stalled.

[metroXpress]

Eaton Center, Station Square and Metrotown

It's Eaton Center, Station Square and Metropolis at Metrotown

[djmk]

Originally Posted by Allen

It's Eaton Center, Station Square and Metropolis at Metrotown

i stand corrected. when i was younger, metrotown was Metrotown Center and then they added eaton center and The Bay wing.

oh ya, station square i guess is not part of metropolis. always thought is was.

[SpongeG]

It used to be Eaton Centre and Metrotown Centre

and than metrotown centre bought out eaton centre - which at the time had changed its name to something i forget as eatons was long gone

and they combined the two structures and created Metropolis at Metrotown

[officedweller]

Originally Posted by Zeepy Tech

A few photos I took today of Richmond, BC

To the south east

Hopefully, when the corner is developed, it won't be a boxy building (the corner needs something a bit different) - but if it's going to be an office building (hopefully?) it probably will be.

[SpongeG]

that corner store is so ghetto

[dreambrother808]

It's centRE, not centER, people We live in Canada, not America.

[metroXpress]

Originally Posted by djmk

i stand corrected. when i was younger, metrotown was Metrotown Center and then they added eaton center and The Bay wing.

oh ya, station square i guess is not part of metropolis. always thought is was.

I understand. My parents always called it Metrotown and I still remember the good old times at Rainforest Cafe