I'm not criticizing redistributing service, but rather the fact that they had to. It made sense when ridership was down, but it's slowing ridership recovery in the core. movementyvr.ca/lessons-from...

Transit mode share in Vancouver is low enough that it should have still been growing despite the drop in travel demand caused by COVID. Bus service should have been expanded rather than moved from the core to the suburbs. In Victoria, bike trips grew through COVID, despite a drop in total travel.

Overall ridership is growing however, bus ridership in the core is dropping. This is because TransLink is moving service from the core to the suburbs rather than expanding service.

I think the point is to compare averages. Because there's one regional operator, service in Vancouver is more uniform. Service in Toronto is more variable because it's run by multiple agencies. Overall mode share is about 15% higher in Toronto. www.reddit.com/media?url=ht...

This is one of the few drawbacks to a regional transit operator. I don't think people realize how much service has been cut in the City of Vancouver since 2020. Instead of increasing service to accommodate growth, TransLink cut in the core to serve the suburbs. movementyvr.ca/lessons-from...

Not just bizarre, but factually wrong.

I would like to see a tunnel starting at the Vic West Roundhouse, going under the harbour and then along Fort st. The parking lot at the foot of Fort st would be a great place to put a new downtown station and TOD.

Only 9.4% cheaper per kilometre than th outrageously expensive, but fully elevated Surrey Langley SkyTrain.

The low vacancy rate disproves your entire hypothesis. In fact, more vacant homes are correlated with lower prices.

i.imgur.com/p5jPrT4.png

The 2.7% vacancy rate tell a much different story. Regardless, if nobody wants them why restrict them? If people don't want them they won't live in them and developers won't build them.

www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/t...

The fat profits in question:
www.biv.com/news/real-es...

If someone wants to live in a "shittier, smaller, more expensive home" what right do we have to stop them. Not you, nor I, or anybody for that matter will be forced to live in a newly built home. We don't expect the government to restrict restaurants we don't like, why do so for housing?

What's the fairy tale? You spend the second paragraph arguing that the restrictions are good. Which is it, are the restrictions good or are the restrictions a fairy tale?

I don't understand how anyone can look at the Canadian housing and conclude that "the market is the only solution that has been touted for decades." Cities literally have complete control over how much housing is produced, where it's produced and the form. That doesn't sound like the market to me.

A lot of other busses use the Douglas Street corridor. Combined volumes on Douglas ranged from 24,000 to 63,000 passengers per day in 2019.

That study concluded that LRT would have more total benefits, but BRT would have a better cost to benefit ratio. imgur.com/a/7CjFmvv

In Victoria, lots of people will complain about delays due to construction as though the bike lane will make it permanent.