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Originally Posted by Pinion
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Thank God for guys like Bond and Walton. Transit and road pricing are the way out of this situation, not building more roads.
The point about residential construction contractors making up a lot of the car traffic is interesting, though. It's one thing for office workers to switch to transit, but sometimes contractors really do need pick-ups and so on to carry their work stuff. I wonder if there would be a way to get contractors to consolidate their vehicles and equipment at bases on each side of crossings like the Iron Workers, so that their employees could take transit to do river crossings. Right now you don't see a lot of construction workers on the Skytrain or seabus, unfortunately. Maybe municipalities could give transit allowances to construction companies/employees as an incentive to change their commuting habits.