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Are Streetcars a Missing Link in Metro Vancouver?
Exploring the Question from a Place-making and Regional Planning Perspective
Christina DeMarcoMetro Vancouver
September 29, 2010
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3 Key Questions…
1. What problem are we trying to solve?
2. What urban land use patterns are in place now, what transportation system serves it, and how do they relate to future land use patterns.
3. How the costs and benefits of alternatives evaluated?
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How we get to work in the region: Walk, Cycle, Trans
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City of Vancouver Transportation Plan (1997)
..Council policies are focusing on transportation as a means to a better city, rather than as a goal in itself. Council and residents are becoming as concerned with the needs to protect neighbourhoods from the impacts of traffic, as they are to achieving a high level of mobility”
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‐Solutions will be most often a combination of transit supply, land use, urban and public realm design, demand management, including pricing.
‐What importance do we place on shorter trips versus longer trips? How do we accommodate both?
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U‐Pass Example
• UBC wanted to build a new community• Vancouver residents were concerned with traffic impacts of growth
• Students said better transit services were needed• Modelled program on successful examples elsewhere ( in this case U of W)
• The result was extraordinarily successful in shifting students to transit through a combination of pricing, better service, reduction in parking supply and increase in parking prices
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3 Key Questions…
2. What urban land use patterns are in place now, what transportation system serves it, and how do they relate to aspirations for future land use patterns.
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TransLink’s Frequent TransitNetwork Vision
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Strategy for Managing Growth in this Region
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1986 Proposed Transit System
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Livable Region Strategy
A good transit system is the backbone of regional development. It will help make Regional Town Centres viable and in turn transit‐oriented Regional Town Centres will help make high quality transit service economically possible.
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Getting Office Jobs in the Right Locations
Out of Centres49% (9.1 M sq ft)
Regional City Centres
11% (2.1 M sq ft)
Metro Core40% (7.4 M sq ft)
Distribution of Office Floorspace Growth in Metro Vancouver (1990-2006)
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How workers get to work
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
AutoTransitWalk
Metro Core
Office Park
Metrotown
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Subregional Growth
- 100,000 200,000 300,000 400,000 500,000
Ridge Meadow s
North Shore
TriCities
South Fraser
Burrard
2021 2031 2041
35%35%
40%40%
14%14%
5%5%
6%6%
Population Growth 2006 - 2041
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0 50,000 100,000 150,000 200,000 250,000
Ridge Meadow s
TriCities
North Shore
South Fraser
Burrard
2021 2031 2041
39%
39%
13%
5%
5%
Subregional Growth Employment Growth 2006 - 2041
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Employment Growth to 2041
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Metro Vancouver 2040
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Evaluating Costs and Benefits
• Systematic and transparent as possible on social, economic, and environmental costs and benefits
• What makes the short list and why or why not?
• Who benefits and who loses?• Capital and operating costs • Cost per new rider• Reduction in Greenhouse gas emissions
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Evaluating Costs and Benefits
• Catalyst for development?
• Studies are always a combination of technical work and value judgments
• “Your heart has its reasons, your mind doesn’t know.”
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