https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-worlds-worst-cities-traffic
After several decades of Vancouver & the metropolitan region trying to keep most of the roads & bridges as narrow as possible, the ineptness of such an agenda is really showing. While there was a legitimate concern for the region potentially being overrun with various freeways & expressways between the 1950s & 1970s, a few key things were ignored.
https://www.tomtom.com/traffic-index/vancouver-traffic/
A network of bus bridges was never implemented. There wasn't a proper regional HOV system either. Instead of proper long-range, high-capacity rapid transit planning, the first 2 SkyTrain lines have stations that are barely more than half the length of the 152.5m Montreal Metro stations. The shortsighted Canada embasesment Line was only designed to have 50m stations.
https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2023/02/22/vancouver-traffic-worst-north-america/
Such inept urban planning is a Vancouver, a regional & a BC problem. Fortunately, most major cities around the world aren't interested in following the backwards BC example. Where did all the money go over the coarse of several generations, because what was built is just a bunch of half-size infrastructure?
