Vancouver hosts a sizable international airport and a sizable international sea port. It's also a large end-node for rail traffic and trucking activities. In short, the city and transportation are deeply intertwined. In fact, all of that transportation, pumping its flow of goods and people in and out, is one of the major underpinning arteries that gives the regions its vitality and life. Cutting it off would not be a good idea, so why not enrich it and make it healthier instead?

Vancouver and its neighbouring districts also have a fine pool of technological prowess and academic capability in its various businesses, industries, universities and institutes. With the right collaborations, investments, incentives and encouragements, that sea of potential ingenuity and capacity could be tuned to developing and producing green transportation technologies, which could then see local, regional, national and even international application. Would seeing a train pull into station or a ship pull into dock really be so bad if you knew it produced **** harmful wastes or emissions, and that the components or methods that allowed it to do so had been developed locally? Wouldn't you instead look at something like that and feel just a little bit of pride? Not only would we be helping to protect a vital chamber of our local, economic heart from unsustainability (in fact, we'd be making it healthy and resilient), but we'd be setting up a whole new chamber in the form of a leading green transportation technology sector--one that would grow and extend its positive influence abroad as its competence developed and the forces of external demand gained momentum. It wouldn't be an overnight affair, of course, and we're still in the natal stages of overall viability, but, still, we're in a prime position to be one of the key springboards that sends it into the air, and it would all ultimately come back home to roost.