Air Polution - and solutions

[Thinktank]

Superblocks: How Barcelona is taking city streets back from cars



^ that.

[Queen K]

Now if only Khuchti could come in and comment.

Interesting vid, thanks Thinktank.

[Silverstarqueen]

Great idea of high density populations, and Europe has train and metro system far beyond what Canada has . Vancouver has a long way to go to achieve this, but could be done on a small scale here and there because they have at least a serviceable bus service. I wonder what is the critical population density where they think this will work?

[TylerM4]

Another key component to facilitating transportation infrastructure (EG - subways/skytrain) is forward thinking and planning.

Much much cheaper to install a subway system if the land is already owned and available. Otherwise you're buying land/businesses or trying to build underground and/or elevated systems - both of which more than triple to overall cost of building.

I somehow suspect that this isn't anywhere in the official city plan. Perhaps a way to leverage the rail trail?

[spooker]

I somehow suspect that this isn't anywhere in the official city plan. Perhaps a way to leverage the rail trail?

I've heard from some City staff (all off the record speculation) that the rail trail is looked at as a "placeholder" for a future transportation solution that might be able to fit in there ... wouldn't want to *bleep* off the cycling community to know they're being used in such a way ...