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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
That's actually by design. Vancouver city planner have purposely limited the number of freeway and bridges in the city in order to persuade people to live in the areas that they work in to try and avoid urban sprawl.
Portland, Oregon apparently does the same thing.
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Which is another problem in Calgary - the 'power centres' created in the suburbs are not working as they were originally intended. Most of these areas (such as Crowfoot Crossing and Southcentre) were designed to provide people with a "mini-city" in which all of their needs were met, eliminating the need to drive downtown at all. However, this has not been the case, because of poor development choices made in these power centres. There are supposed to be commercial and office properties, but these have not happened.
Conversely though, if Vancouver has limited travel efficiency into the core, then that another problem if people are still trying to get to downtown.
The Cities need to work with planners and developers to spread out the concentration of white-collar work.