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Originally Posted by logan5
It's the kind of thing you see in hundreds of cities. Not avant garde.
I would like to see the gravel and patchy grass replaced with a linear plaza. It would give a much more urban feel.
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For Richmond, it was avant garde in the Lower Mainland. Agree that the ugly patches all along the stretch should be upgraded, particularly near the skytrain stations. They should be turned into pedestrian plazas with nice landscaping features.
Sadly, the skytrain columns in the City of Vancouver still look drab, as expected, with nothing planned for the foreseeable future, and probably never will.
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Originally Posted by WBC
Having urban, linear park under the SkyTrain would be a huge improvement in use of space that has been essentially neglected for the last 40 years. And it would improve safety as well. Some stretches of the path around Metrotown station (Willington to Bennet) would also benefit from separating the bike path from pedestrian path to avoid conflicts.
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I'm with you on that. The areas under skytrain guideways have been underutilized for far too long.