If iit could come to be that once again let the natural waterways of Vancouver would flow, what a positive and hopeful world-wide message that would be.

I vote YES to the restoration and daylighting of Vancouver's historic creeks. I support the efforts of neighbourhood people in Mount Pleasant to undertake this project. I read in a City Hall pamphlet in the 1970s a quote from a Vancouver resident who said that prior to the burying and culverting of streams, the biggest salmon he ever caught was at what is now 1st and Cypress!

By restoring these creeks, Vancouver could provide an example to the world for the recovery of natural habitat. Let's do it!

Restore the stream beds to be viewed and enjoyed and to educate.

Start with the brewery creek headwaters, it is located in mountainview cemetery and has the logistical benefits of being a large "unbuilt" area with current circulation roadways following closely the creeks original flow, thus they could easily be repurposed into streambeds. Most of the original streams in vancouver have the disadvantage of being built upon (roads, houses,industry) or being very tightly encroached upon,Mountainview has none of these problems.

I vote for more Blue! (With the Sun (yellow), the green is inevitable!) Not enough can be said for more fresh water ways to be in our environment, let alone our urban environment. More plants, more bugs, more birds, more fish, more learning and playing opportunities for our youth - its a win/win! For the city, its people, and the environment for all.

Moved my votes to another theme with the same intention. I still support this idea though!

@ Shaye A long time ago before much of Vancouver as we see it now existed. the area we all lived around once had creeks that ran through it. During some of the busy development years most if not all of them were diverted from there channels or covered over using a number of methods usually through coverts and daylighting them again would involve a number of things. 1) removing the covered surface 2) restoring the creeks shores and channel mostly through adding gravel and stone 3) addition of trees on side, introduction of salmon and I guess monitoring flow 4) examining to determine water quality....

In South Korea the did this on a much larger scale for a large freeway and the result was quite amazing check out the following link. http://www.design-e2.com/ then click on Web Cast and then select Seol: Stream of Consciousness

I hope you learned a bit about the subject. I would be nice to see more creeks in this city. I grew up in Langley and there are a number of creeks around where I grew up and I often enjoyed going to check them out during the salmon migration period to check them out as the swam up the creeks.

I've never heard of the term to 'daylight creeks' - I'm guessing this is referring to creeks that run under streets and to daylight them is to somehow expose them??

Sooner the better

People love nature! For example they go camping in the summer, hiking or cross-country skiing in the winter. The rich have summer homes in the country to enjoy living in a more natural setting.

Bring back nature to the city so we can have the best of both worlds.

"Daylighting" our streams is not just a matter of personal preference; it is essential to building quality into our urban environment. Not only is it possible to restore salmon-bearing streams, but in doing so, we provide aesthetic and educational opportunities. If nature can be brought back to urban people, perhaps also people can be educated not to litter and destroy.

Bring them back please!! We need this type of idea implemented so we can return to a more sustainable way of living.

Meant to add that we need to think in terms of the entire watershed, certainly the Fraser River and the rivers flowing into Burrard Inlet and English Bay, maybe the entire Salish Sea.

The City of Vancouver has contributed significantly to the destruction of our once most vital local sustainable resource, our salmon fishery. Cities up and down the Northwest Coast, from Ashland to Anchorage are daylighting and even stocking urban streams and lakes. Vancouver's mad dash to separate its sewer lines is 100% opposite the principles of Low Impact Development and continued stream suppression is a recognised environmental crime.

The Supreme Court has ruled twice that the First Nations peoples have a right to their historical fisheries, and yet our policies--federal, provincial, AND municipal--continue to deprive them of that right, by killing off all of their fish. Justice is being scandalously denied to profit further from stolen lands.

Daylight at least a few of Vancouver's vast network of streams, and make a real contribution to sustainability, ecological action, economic development, and legal and social justice. This is our only path.

It's tragic that the process of burying creeks is currently being contemplated and starting to get underway in Surrey and Delta along the route of the South Fraser Freeway.

I think giving back life to our water ways is fabulous. I think it will help the salmon population and also I think that reviving these creeks will also bring back wild life to the city and help to make vancouver greener. The creeks are also a great way to help to further cool the heat of the city from all the pavement in the city. Great idea I wish I had more votes to put to this but I am running low and have other things I want to vote on.

YES to going blue!!! In order to create better conditions for healthy living creeks, we will need to unpave and regreen streets wherever we can. Some folks who live in Mount Pleasant are exploring the possibility of stream daylighting in our neighbourhood, eventually. It will be a long process but well worth the effort.

Here's a working list of creek and waterway organizations in Vancouver: http://downstream.ecuad.ca/?page_id=150 - more suggestions are welcome.

Given our abundance of water and unrelenting rain, water conservation is a very low priority for Vancouver in going green. In any event it is lot more important to get smarter than going green, read details about this at the discussion Urban Intelligence Score Elevation (UISE) http://vsrbc.web.officelive.com/UISE.aspx Once we get smarter going green would be a piece of cake, Becoming dumber is making it harder to fight the sustainability battle.