🚀 go-pugleaf

buckland@ucs.ubc.ca (Tony Buckland) writes:

>In article <schuck.721519561@sfu.ca> Bruce_Schuck@sfu.ca writes:
>>A better solution, and cheaper, would be to ban cars in the downtown
>>area of Vancouver and force people to use buses, skytrain and commuter
>>rail. That would be cheaper and cleaner and much less of a waste of
>>resources.

> But there will always be _some_ drivers that need access to downtown
> and parking there.  My favorite scheme is to systematically eliminate
> downtown parking spaces, on- and off-street, until the desired
> result is achieved.  Those who had to pass through would be able to
> do so, with less obstruction than now, and those who really had to
> park (not those who would merely like to park) downtown would still
> find space, although at a price.  Our much maligned towing companies,
> plus a bit more enforcing in no-stop zones, would clean away a lot of
> the system-buckers.

This is just pathetic!  Do you really think that people commute because
they like too?  Its expensive and inconvenient.  All I need is to have
parking reduced so that in addition to my 45min drive I can search for
parking for another 15.

There is a reason people don't take the bus.  Its inconvenient and
time consuming.  My current 45 minute drive (each way) is extended
to 2 hour bus ride (yes I have tried it) (yes each way).  If
BC transit were to stop wasting taxpayers money with pathetic
service people WOULD get out of their cars and take transit.  But
the solution is to make transit an attractive alternative, not to
make driving unbearable ... this is happening already without stupid
artifical barriers.


Rod Davison.