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17% of Vancouverites Walk to Work! How many South Deltans?


By germinator - Posted on 25 May 2006

I cannot believe that the politicians here in SD are so short sited that they cannot, will not and have no interest in furthering their perceived right to rule forever by not fostering the concerns of the people here in SD. I guess when the community doesn't vote you in, you can thrust your ideas down the throat of the citizens that didn't vote for you and make them gag and puke all over town. They don't live here so they don't have to clean up the mess. Oh yeah, I am talking library and fake fields. Toss that new sprinkler system out! Rip up the playing field for a building! Pave paradise and put up a . . . . well you know.

Come on Bosco! With so many people walking to work we'll be able to lobby for Overpasses and moving sidewalks (solar powered of course). Actually, a hemp suspension bridge "spidering" from Tim Ho's, epicentre of the South Delta universe, might make sense.

With a newly supported edict from all levels of government, the bedroom community of Tsawwassen was met with sidewalk gridlock when a government-mandated 5% of the population began their 15 minute walk to the town core. At the corner of 12th and 56th, fights broke out as elders jockeyed for position with young purple-haired next-gens and suited baby-boomers. Estimates of the walking commuters were in the range of 250 huddled in front of Tim Horton's. Further on up 12th Avenue, suited executives aggressively shoved high school kids into the intersection causing havoc with oncoming traffic - inspite of the flashing lights in the crosswalk. It was pure hell. Who would have thought? Many of those interviewed proclaimed "Hell, I'm taking my car into Vancouver next time!"

I think that given the opportunity, everyone would walk to work on most occassions. Living in a "bedroom community" doesn't really offer that choice. Having said that I think most of us moved here in the first place for reasons that were of a higher priority than the ability to walk to work. Most of us are second or third generations of Notrh Americans who have been conditioned to follow the framework of the post second world war suburban model. It will take some serious forward thinking to stop sprawl and play catch up with the sprawl that we live in currrently. Zoning is a huge part of the equation and although "densification" sounds scary, it will ultimately pay off for future generations.

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