Yup, the solution is more car lanes!

100% this. I’d take transit exclusively and never drive to work again if I could afford to live within a 60 minute transit ride of work.

I think that in most Canadian cities, the current transportation planning hot topic is “we have all these people who live within a 40 minute bus ride of work but insist on driving anyway, how can we change their minds”.

The typical Edmonton or calgary downtown commuter ; “I live a 10 minute drive to the park and ride station+20 minute LRT ride from work, but then I’d have to sit on the train next to poor people! Eww I’d much rather sit in traffic for 45 minutes and pay $300/month in parking”

And people act like that’s the problem in Vancouver too but let’s be real. The problem in Vancouver is the housing crisis. People here already want to take transit, they just can’t because their job is in Richmond and they can only afford to live in Aldergrove. They would kill to have that 20 minute train commute that albertans have no interest in.

It’s ALL about people having to live so far from work that they can’t do a damn thing about their modes of transportation.

Currently I live a TWO hour ride each way from work and btw why the FUCK does the west coast express stop running at like 6:30 pm?!?!

I would imagine that someone who lives out in the valley and works downtown probably wants to hang out downtown after work, not immediately hop on the train back to suburbia (parents with kids excluded of course).

You’re in one of the best downtowns in the entire country and you can’t even stop at a restaurant after work because oh fuck, gotta catch that last train! No wonder people drive, I imagine the reason we all put up with Vancouver house prices is because we actually want to live here and do Vancouver things, not so we can go home at 6pm and hang out at walmart.

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