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Originally Posted by Migrant_Coconut
Six lanes =/= wide highway. And those parking lots and strip malls are supposed to be developed into high-rises, which is the entire point of building this LRT.
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As urban streets go, it's plenty wide, and it's not like their are encroaching uses up against the sidewalks that make it effectively narrower.
High-rises can deal with elevated railways, especially when those high-rises come after the el. If this was a place that was already built up, I'd be vaguely sympathetic to complaints that existing amenity was being degraded, but all of the current uses along the King George Frontage will be replaced. Like Cambie south of QE Park, the people in a position to complain about an el will be coming later.