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Originally Posted by Olden Retreiver
To go back (briefly) to the Park-and-Ride discussion: I was very upset that car parking at Moody Centre station was substantially increased with the construction of Evergreen, and I mad very strong comments on it during the public consultations. Apparently, I am just about the only person in Port Moody who feels this way.
PoMo has wrangled for the past 4 years over their Official Community Plan, with the most contentious issue being what density and building height would be allowed adjacent to the Station. This argument is kind of moot if TransLink's vision is for a massive car park. Surface parking lots are the absolute ugliest things any city can have in their central cores, and this is offensive to Port Moody's desire to be a compact, sustainable urban community. Maybe, years down the road we can have proper bus service from residential neighbourhoods to transit, and gradually dig up the acres of asphalt.
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Port Moody has plenty of space, especially near Port Moody Station, to densify before starting to worry about running out of space for them like in the Vancouver downtown core. Cars are a currently a way of life in Metro Vancouver, and while a shift to mass transit is ideal, it's just not feasible in the near future with the way our cities are currently designed. Port Moody Station's parking is centrally located in a spot that also happens to run immediately beside heavy rail tracks, which is not exactly ideal for a residential neighborhood.
That being said, the OCP process is stupid and needs to die in a fire, but that is probably better suited for another thread which I don't feel strongly enough about to start it myself.
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