[Alon]

What Metro-One said. Turn restrictions on Broadway would make it even harder to cross than it already is because stoplight phasing would get more complex. Elimination of parking would eliminate the existing buffer between pedestrians and car traffic, which has the same effect as narrowing the sidewalk; on major arterial streets like that, often the livable streets solution is to allow rather than prohibit parking, and community activists on Queens Boulevard in Sunnyside in New York have proposed allowing parking all day as a way of making the street pedestrian-friendlier.

Although a tram would still have about twice the capacity of a bus, even more than twice is required to satisfy the UBC peak of peak; present demand overwhelms both the 99-B and the relief lines, including the 84, which is actually faster than the 99-B for passengers transferring from the Millennium Line. Two tram lines would have enough capacity, but Vancouver has an unusually low subway premium on construction costs, and so two trams would cost the same as a single subway.