Good on Vancouver. These dense, compact areas of city centres should be car-free or at the very least car-lite. It makes existing in the city more pleasant when you don't have to constantly hear tire and engine noise.

Fantastic idea it was never designed with cars in the first place, I would encourage patio’s, improve foottraffic, and overall make it more pleasant. Other places who have done this have only seen benefits, let do it!

I hope that this will spread to other areas of the city as well, we need more car free spaces.

Finally. Just end the consultation and do it.

Why do we even allow cars down there in the first place? It's the perfect pedestrian mall.

No literally what’s the point all those cars driving through that area it’s so congested and small + there’s many cafes and attractions that people walk to anyways. If you drive there that’s practically your fault, you can still have loading and emergency vehicles use pedestrian streets

Awesome. I hope they do this

Make it happen ❤

Great idea

Yeeessss let's gooo. Car free cities baby

I hope they go for year round pedestrianization!

Hopefully this happens. More places across Canada deserve this.

Remove all cars. That should work.

Make Granville Island car-free

Surprised that it is only 10 million. The amount of brick work and reworking of the street will be massive. I hope that there is a vision to greatly expand patio seating, especially in the main square.

honestly its only 3 blocks or so. Not really a big deal to re-route traffic. They should keep the brick road for the entire closed off area.

Awkward is the way to put it. Absolutely no need to have cars on Water St it could be a brilliant pedestrianised retail street with more events, patios and spaces for people.

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The area in front of the Europe Hotel is a perfect outdoor plaza. Why cars still drive through it is a shame.

Just do it

"consultation"

Theres so many potholes anyway. Why anyone willingly drove through there is beyond me

Gastown, Granville Island, handful of other spots -- all deserve to be pedestrian-only, ideally, at all times, but if not possible, then at least on the weekends! Also, gotta take the crazies off the streets. Metro Vancouver is wasting A LOT of tourism potential and appeal due to indecision.

Ken is working perfectly on this!

I don’t mind this. It should be great for the community. If they keep making car free areas downtown that’s great but they need to improve the capability for people to get through the city so they can travel north/south unrestricted. I hate driving through Vancouver to get to north van and back is horrendous. Better infrastructure and design also needs to go into public transit to keep the city moving. We are so far behind as a city and country compared to most 1st world countries in this area.

Love it

That's right ! Make all business owners pick up their own supplies, and maintenance their own buildings. Plenty of online do it yourself repairs and pest management. Contractors are done with the downtown.

itll be done by 3092 year

I hope they do the same with Government St. in Victoria

It will be the ONLY way to get me back to Gastown (and spend money on local businesses there). I've driven there several years ago; traffic was a nightmare--never again (not even by bicycle). Been waiting for it to be bike/walk/transit friendly ever since.

Man, this current council sure is a fan of this current council

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$10M to make it happen...and probably another $10M for the "consultations".

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A pedestrian boulevard? Very European!

Scybdinc

Make it drug free

No they need more cars, especially ones that use gas.

Make it car free and replace road with slightly elevated moving flat horizontal escalator

Ya excellent - make it a drag queen & junkie only zone too !!

make it small cars only!

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