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You're completely neglecting to consider other transportation modes. Vancouver hasn't increased, only reduced, road capacity for decades and so resultantly the
by Tiktaalik 10y ago
You're completely neglecting to consider other transportation modes.
Vancouver hasn't increased, only reduced, road capacity for decades and so resultantly the amount of cars entering the downtown core is the same now as it was in the 1960s.
Meanwhile the amount of jobs and people entering the area has exploded. How?
The city gave people other options.
Investment in public transit
Investment in protected cycling lanes
Built denser housing near the downtown core so people could walk to work.
- scythe 10y agoVancouver is not an example of sustainable growth. It's periodically unseated San Francisco and New York from the top of the list of most expensive cities in NA. Their latest scheme to lower housing prices is to kick out Chinese investors.
- Tiktaalik 10y agoVancouver housing is expensive, but that doesn't have anything to do with Vancouver's transportation planning. Vancouver's housing affordability problems are a result of a combination of speculative foreign investment, government incentives propping up the housing industry, and the end of greenfield/brownfield areas for development. Further housing growth in Vancouver will require densifying existing single family home areas, which is politically painful. Toronto is experiencing the exact same housing affordability problems, and their transportation system is dramatically different from Vancouver's. It is more car oriented with a highway funnelling traffic into town, and has poorer public transit and cycling options.
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