Yeah, the lack of high-capacity bridges across the rivers. The house prices in that 30 minutes worth of land (I live in it) are also approaching $1 million. Th

Yeah, the lack of high-capacity bridges across the rivers. The house prices in that 30 minutes worth of land (I live in it) are also approaching $1 million. The only reason they don't go higher is because of commuting. The newly elected provincial government has just announced they will suspend the construction of a new bridge; many condo and houses to the south were built with the assumption that the bridge will open and make the southern suburb much more attractive. For whatever reason, the mayor of Vancouver and its immediate surrounding satellite cities (Burnaby, Richmond, etc.) are fighting hard to not expand the road system. Instead they are 'pushing' for better mass (not rapid) transit between the out-rim suburb and the core cities. I don't know if they are sincere in reducing traffic, but this has an knock-on effect of keeping the house prices in the core cities much higher than otherwise (eg. a rapid transit thru that 30 minutes worth of land.)