Time for Vancouver to Tear Down Its Viaducts?

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Originally Posted by EastVanMark

Exactly. Thats what people don't understand. You don't just use one solitary measurement when accessing the "success" of a downtown.
Residents downtown are a great asset, however if you're solely just focussing on that and in Vancouver's case actively putting up roadblocks to people visiting the core from outlying areas, you lose something in terms of overall vibrancy (as you point out).

The COV is so obsessed with one item, that they are perfectly willing to forego a whole number of other benefits that come with being a true "downtown" for the region. They build an elementary school right in their entertainment district and brag about it at a city planner convention, only to be laughed out of the room when other cities rightly state they don't want that in their entertainment districts.

if that was true we wouldn't have people whining that they can't get home cause skytrain shuts down too early LOL