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18 votesEkai
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but back to what alisha said, lets build green power infrastructure not because hydro is non-sustainable, but because MANY of our major hydroelectric dams are nearing the age at which they have to be decommissioned. these things do have a shelf live believe it or not.
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massive amounts of space in urban areas is unused (rooftops mainly) and the birds+turbines myth is pretty ridiculous. lighted comm towers kill 100x as many birds per year. power lines cause 5000x more deaths. better start boycotting cellphones and ELECTRICITY....
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people are interested. many people would do "green" things if given a chance. for example, many people I know, given choice A, which is not sustainable and choice B which is, will choose B. HOWEVER, the same people if given only choice A, would rarely ask "is there a more sustainable alternative?" It's all about making the choice obvious.
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this is a great and SIMPLE idea. I completely 100% agree. Simple addition of large parking structures that only require you to buy a transit pass nearby sky train stations would increase ridership. Additionally, people who might otherwise drive to work might start taking public transit just because parking is so cheap at the station and so hard to come by downtown.
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289 votes
TransLink is currently leading a study to determine the best approach to deliver high-capacity, fast, frequent, and reliable rapid transit for the Broadway Corridor from Commercial Drive to UBC. A number of technologies and alignment options are being considered, including rail rapid transit (e.g. SkyTrain), surface light rail transit, and bus rapid transit.
The City of Vancouver is directly involved as a partner agency in the study. In April 2010, City Council endorsed ten principles to guide City input into this process (http://vancouver/ubcline/principles).
Visit http://vancouver.ca/ubcline to learn more about this work, including upcoming public engagement events.
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an east-west train is definitely needed. but an underground line is totally financially irresponsible. Electric busses (or even larger vehicles, like the Bline but 3 sections?) running broadway COUPLED with traffic priority (eg. restructuring of the broadway lights and traffic system, dedication of bus lane) would do wonders for students and anyone else travelling east/west and would also be fairly affordable for translink.
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Build an underground UBC Line SkyTrain along the Broadway corridor that connects with the existing V
29 votesTransLink is currently leading a study to determine the best approach to deliver high-capacity, fast, frequent, and reliable rapid transit for the Broadway Corridor from Commercial Drive to UBC. A number of technologies and alignment options are being considered, including rail rapid transit (e.g. SkyTrain), surface light rail transit, and bus rapid transit.
The City of Vancouver is directly involved as a partner agency in the study. In April 2010, City Council endorsed ten principles to guide City input into this process (http://vancouver/ubcline/principles).
Visit http://vancouver.ca/ubcline to learn more about this work, including upcoming public engagement events.
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Only if electric streetcars (or even electric version of the current Bline busses) were implemented and coupled with traffic priority for transit could this be both affordable for translink and helpful to students.
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Transit (and transit fares!) are controlled by TransLink, not the city. Having said that, reducing or eliminating transit fares is an interesting idea.
Unfortunately it’s not very feasible, at least as TransLink is currently funded. Unlike most North American cities, Vancouver’s transit problems aren’t due to a lack of demand but rather a lack of capacity. Anyone who’s ever tried to squeeze onto one of our busy buses or trains knows this all too well — there isn’t enough space even when people have to pay, let alone accommodate the additional demand that would be created if transit were free. Compare this to cities with fare-free zones, which are typically struggling for increase demand, and which typically have (a) less frequent service and/or (b) plenty of extra capacity to accommodate more riders.
In Vancouver, we need to provide more transit capacity to meet existing demand — and a LOT more…
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This is a good idea. But, charge more than $70-100 a YEAR, as a monthly pass is already almost $90. if every resident of GVRD paid $400 a year (or $33/month), Translink would receive almost $900 million/year before government subsidy. (as of the population of 2007) Using this money, they could restructure bus routes to make them more efficient (which is desperately needed) and upgrade carrying capacity of many routes. I am also of the personal opinion that the electric buses that already operate in the city are a great idea, and more of this is needed (especially on lines like the 99). Now, this might be stretching it, but to compliment the links the planning team posted, I suggest shutting down the entire downtown core (thurlow to main) to non-transit traffic in order to make it more pedestrian friendly. I personally love it when granville is shut down and the street is flooded with people. However, residents of the area (and the west end) would need to get through, as well as buses. In order to shut down traffic inside the zone, but not through-traffic, parking should be made illegal. In order to compensate, parking NEEDS to be created at skytrain stations as well as at the edge of the no-drive zone.
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4 votes
This idea is addressed in Community, Central Area, and City-Wide planning initiatives, with the understanding that fostering neighbourhood businesses requires collaboration of many different groups, public agencies, and neighbourhood residents
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_growth
its a good idea.
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reducing urban sprawl is very widely accepted as being extremely environmentally responsible. However, it often requires careful urban planning, and as such may not be possible for places where urban sprawl already exists (vancouver). My suggestion would be to create legislation to encourage a range of different business within a (ten minute walk sized radius) by providing tax breaks to the first business of each type in the area to register themselves.
