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Originally Posted by Migrant_Coconut
"West Van bus service" as in "bus service for West Van overall" - doesn't matter if it's TransLink, Blue Bus or CMBC, there's always going to be a finite amount of buses and/or drivers. Headways beyond Dunderave are only every 30 minutes as it is.
A big part of TOD is being on the way: the main transit corridor is Marine, so build on Marine and gather more and more ridership until there's cause to expand to 7-15 minute service. The new suburb can be as transit-friendly as possible, but it won't matter so long as it requires TransLink to waste resources on brand new Upper Lands lines instead of improving Marine... and then everybody is stuck with crappy 30-minute service.
Well, at least Point Grey has actual growth - it's a certain kind of achievement, being the only municipality in the metro to be shrinking in the middle of a housing crisis.
I'd argue that the Lower Mainland's sprawled as much as it needs to for the next century, that West Van's hardly going to make or break the supply problem on its own, and that by the time Ambleside's all built out and we have even 145% of 2020's population (let alone 190%) many of the NIMBYs will no longer be with us. |
The reasons for West Van shrinking have a lot to do with electoral attitudes. City Council doesn’t really want to keep the city shrinking for obvious reason, and that was part of what spurred Cypress Village- it’s either accept a city without a long-term future, or go against your own people to try to build one.
Well, a piece of land ether size of New West is not small.
I would be sceptical that they NIMBYs would all die out and don’t just get replaced with new ones. Maybe reduce. Willowgbhy as a whole is about as large (~15 Km2), so it’s not exactly not going to make a dent either. I don’t think the housing situation would be any better if not for Willowgbhy.
Maybe there is the potential for a Density Only solution, but I don’t see it. Even Tokyo sprawls out slightly.
http://atlasofurbanexpansion.org/cities/view/Tokyo
I guess East Maple Ridge and Silverdale are ‘in the way’ of bus services and WCE to Mission, as few as there are. But the distances are also much greater both to Vancouver and to anywhere else, with the developable area spread out between ALR land. Unless we get rid of that.
Pretty much nowhere else significant is really ‘in the way’.
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