But it's the here and now demographic you need to attract. The people who will benefit the most from the overreaching changes being made today haven't been born yet.

Beating them with a 2x4 and then expecting them to see things your way is laughable. If the region is going to solve its transportation problems, then it must do so by performing changes to infrastructure in a reasoned and logical manner, not just by writing them out of the equation completely.

It's not about politics, it's about being realistic and working with people to develop solutions, not punishing them for not seeing things your way.

The suburbs are car dominated because local bus service sucks. Not because regional connections don't exist (they do!). The solution is straightforward. Make park and ride infrastructure available and free to use.

Put it next to the freeway and next to rapid transit and the number of vehicles on the roads will plummet as the length of car trips go down. Why drive through the hell that is Vancouver when I can just leave my vehicle at this convenient park and ride?

Calgary has been doing that and they're reaping the rewards. TransLink... not so much. Remember the South Surrey Park and Ride debaccle? They cranked up the cost to park to something ridiculous and motorists just parked on the highway or wound up driving to Vancouver.

Telling the suburbs to densify and depriving them of transit service while offering no tangible benefit is what is causing this vote to fail. People aren't going to ride a bicycle from Coquitlam to Vancouver to get to work. Expecting densification to be the magic solution to this region's problems is silly because it's pure fantasy to expect that everyone in Surrey will work in Surrey and everyone in Coquitlam will work in Coquitlam. It just doesn't work like that.

So, like it or not, motorists run the show and will continue to do so until practical alternatives are implemented.