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Originally Posted by ssiguy
Although I wouldn't like to see big trains rolling down Arbutus, it's the hypocracy and elitism that I can't stand. If the Arbutus corridor all of a sudden became a Main or Knight Street corridor, City Hall wouldn't give a shit.
IT's like the Canada Line which had to be buried or the Broadway corridor that will have to be buried. It's not that I disagree with it but obviously it's OK for the Eastside but not for the tony Westside. Even if there was an empty corridor running all the way from Commercial to UBC thru the Westside, we all know that it would NEVER get used due to the complete political power of the Westsiders.
It's like the Viaduct...............it can come down because it's a bridge connecting to the Eastside, while the equally ugly and visually instrusive Granville Bridge will never come down because it is used by Westsiders.
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i feel there is a lot of west-side hate on this site. i just get that vibe from a lot of people. mind you, though, that whole creme de le creme speech was stupid, moronic, and elitist. not everyone is like that on the westside. in their defense you can kind of see where they come from since they do pay more in taxes and the houses are worth a bunch more. lets face it, the rich have the power and the rich live on the westside.
well on the westsiders defense the Granville street bridge does go over water where as the viaduct is a bridge over land. roads on the ground can replace an elevated road. where as the Granville bridge will always be needed in some form since a bridge is the only way to make a road over water. you can't really compare those. (I'm for keeping the viaducts by the way).
back on topic, GFGR (Gregor Feel-Good Robertson), always has some say in something he has absolutely no control in. if he really wants a say in what happens to the Arbutus "green-way," that was made on private land not owned by anyone on it, then maybe the city should buy it from CP and then they can do something about it. im also not sad about people loosing their community gardens. they built them on private property, next to a train track, and now they go running to the mayor, who has no control, to want to stop the tracks being used. and of course GFGR makes it sound like he has control over it, when in fact he has
absolutely no control.