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Originally Posted by moosejaw
how about doing a tunnel all the way from stanley park to pender that way you can have all the bike lanes and bus lanes you want and also take away those unsightly overhead arrows
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Yes! Tunnels are great for alleviating jams and routing traffic. Many
other cities use them, but Vancouver seems to have a phobia of them, which is a real shame, because the city has so much potential to be truly great.
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Originally Posted by s211
I'm coming to the conclusion that Vancouverites in general are like drug addicts when it comes their truly destructive ways to fark up its transportation system. Their blind-Vision ideas are like drugs: insanely bad for you, mess you up for life and are just plain bad for you.
Even so, keep shooting up Vancouver, since we live in the era of "don't say no". Not our place to judge, right?
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In a way, yes, I think you have it. Vancouver seems to love doing things "its own way" even if they are counter-productive, and seems to proud to adopt big-city scale projects.
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Originally Posted by VancouverOfTheFuture
now here is a "Complete Street."
- most traffic underground
- some surface parking and local streets on surface level
- add in separated bike-lanes on surface level
- add in HOV-lanes on surface level
- add in wider sidewalks on surface level
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I rather like that, and I agree very much with your list of criteria. However, I think you'll get no more than a tepid response, because such a project is so big and "un-Vancouver."
Also, and perhaps most importantly, it would no doubt require a total redo or refit of the Lions Gate Bridge - and here, that is considered sacrosanct and "untouchable."
BTW, from what Year is that diagram?