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UBC, SFU & BCIT all have downtown campuses. Actually, there are some other university campuses downtown that you may not know about like City U (also campuses worldwide), Emily Carr (actually Granville Island) and some other out of province and out of country universities that have a presence downtown.
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The City does not limit the amount of lawn, but does limit the amount of impermeable surface allowed. We encourage alternatives to lawns through the water wise landscape guidelines. Strengthening education programs in supprt of alternatives to lawns is part of the plan.
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Why not cut down all the trees while your at it?
Chairman Mao once had all his people plucking blades of grass to keep the cities from being over-run with grass, flowers, weeds etc... Fortunately now, the Chinese government is making efforts to green their cities (work in progress).
Replacing grass with concrete bricks or tarmac (the most common alternatives) would be diabolical.
Green is best. Of course grass needs water, as do all other life-forms (including us), why pick on grass?!?
Of course I would agree with you if you want to restrict watering with city water supplies. For the most part in this temperate rain forest (as compared to Ontario,, Quebec etc.), grass does fine without the need for artificial watering.
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What is EPR? Electronic Patient Records?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPR shows 16 possible definitions for this acronym. I suspect it could be "Ethylene propylene rubber, an insulation used for high voltage cables and underground electrical cables" ... if so, I suppose we should be stripping the insulation of wires, put the insulation in a special box and the copper into the bottles and cans container? hmmm, please explain...
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The Rediscover Granville program was a big success in 2009, and the City will be looking to continue and build upon this work in future years. More broadly, the draft Greenest City plan will include directions to explore pedestrian-only and pedestrian-priority streets in the downtown core. Potential locations will be identified at a later date (e.g. as part of the transportation plan update).
http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/currentplanning/granvilleredesign/rediscover/
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Having transit alternate between Granville St. and Howe/Seymour is causing immense confusion for transit users unfamiliar with this scheme as well as with those familiar with it (at around the time of the switch-over). If you miss the last bus on the Granville route then you have to scramble to Howe or Seymour. I have also (on a few occasions) told people standing at bus stops on Granville, or else on Howe or Seymour, that they need to go to another street to catch the bus at that time (then met with looks of confusion, anger and/or despair…).
Also, since the transit-only lanes on Howe and Seymour, have been re-designated as on-street parking, this leads to transit delays when Granville is closed to traffic.
I strongly feel that Granville should be closed at all times to traffic, EXCEPT for transit on a 24/7 basis (no need to alternate with Howe/Seymour). This is done in many other cities around the world, and could easily be done in Vancouver.
This would make the Granville Mall area (from Davie to Georgia and block-by-block north of Georgia) into pedestrian malls with transit running through. This would also create more space on the sidewalks for pedestrians through elimination of the sidewalk car "perches" now in use. Absent other traffic, it has been shown that pedestrians and transit can share such areas with little or no problems.
I have discussed this idea with several friends and strangers (on these bus routes) and I have yet to find anyone who does not agree with this idea.
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