Province need to start seeing advantages to tearing down viaducts: UBC expert
Posted October 29, 2015 11:36 am.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – What should we make of the hurdles the City of Vancouver seems to be facing in moving its plan forward to tear down the Georgia and Dunsmuir Viaducts?
Anthony Perl, a professor of urban studies at UBC who supports the project, says the province and city have two different mindsets.
“The province still thinks at the provincial scale for transportation, which in most of BC outside the Lower Mainland, is a road-based, auto-dependant system,” he argues.
“I think the province needs to be brought along and see the upsides — the real advantages — of this plan,” he adds.
Perl is part of a volunteer, independent planning commission that serves as an advisory body to Vancouver City Council.
City councillors voted earlier this week to support tearing down the viaducts, but the province says there are concerns with soil remediation and access that need to be addressed.
