Quote:
Originally Posted by cairnstone
really! i hope you work from home and grow all your own food. No matter what we do for transit we will still need to expand road ways to service our growing population. And since buses are transit they run on roads. Land is taken out of the ALR all the time. Look at Burnaby in marine drive, the powers to be decide warehouse is better for growth and jobs than blue berries. At one time Delta council wanted to ban greenhouse development on the ALR. There is a fair share of land in the ALR that is not used for anything left fallow because its not economical to grow crops on it.
|
Nobody is advocating getting rid of roads. All we need to do is work on reducing SOVs on the road (single occupancy vehicles). There's plenty of room for all commercial and industrial traffic if even a small dent in SOV was attainable via better encouragement through transit services.