Vancouver

It won't be long before Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, is free of
the automobile. Thirty percent of the streets in that city are now closed to
cars. The same thing is true for other Canadian cities such as Calgary,
Edmonton, Regina, Winnpeg, Toronto, Montreal, Quebec City, Halifax, and
others. Here in the U.S., San Francisco, Berkeley, Chicago, San Diego, and
New York City are going car-free, as are all cities in Europe. And car-free
cities are being built on all continents except Antarctica. This has been
reported on all Internet news outlets.

Joey Jolley wrote:
It won't be long before Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, is free of
the automobile. Thirty percent of the streets in that city are now closed to
cars. The same thing is true for other Canadian cities such as Calgary,
Edmonton, Regina, Winnpeg, Toronto, Montreal, Quebec City, Halifax, and
others. Here in the U.S., San Francisco, Berkeley, Chicago, San Diego, and
New York City are going car-free, as are all cities in Europe. And car-free
cities are being built on all continents except Antarctica. This has been
reported on all Internet news outlets.

I think everyone should watch "An Inconvenient Truth" and start cycling
to work.

Joey Jolley wrote:
It won't be long

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Joey Jolley wrote:
It won't be long

Tired of this troll? Let his mom & dad know.

Boyd & Mary Anne Jolley
381 North 450 West
American Fork, Utah 84003
(801) 756-3094


Call anytime.

"Joey Jolley" wrote in message
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It won't be long before Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, is
free of the automobile. Thirty percent of the streets in that city are
now closed to cars. The same thing is true for other Canadian cities
such as Calgary, Edmonton, Regina, Winnpeg, Toronto, Montreal, Quebec
City, Halifax, and others.

ROTFL! As a lifelong Vancouver resident (and early recruit to the teams
that planned and built Vancouver's first rapid transit and commuter rail
lines) let me tell you this poster's claim is total nonsense. Yes, the
City of Vancouver has introduced so-called "traffic calming" measures in
neighbourhoods that were being overrun by motorists seeking to bypass
clogged arterial streets, but this hardly counts as 30% of the streets
being "closed to cars".

The fact that such arterials are becoming more and more crowded is
largely due to a booming economy and rapid population growth that have
caused vehicle registrations to increase by several thousand PER MONTH
in every recent year.

Both the City of Vancouver and the Greater Vancouver Regional District
have taken steps to increase public transit reach and ridership, but the
provincial government keeps insisting on adding major bridges and
freeway traffic lanes, which can only be expected to lead to further
suburban growth and, inevitably, to further road congestion.

The problems may be great, and the solutions may be found only in the
far future, but they don't yet include wholesale closings of city
streets!

(And I haven't heard of any such plans in other Canadian cities!)