The Broadway suybway Will Sterilize Buisness – Repost

Posted by on Monday, January 16, 2023 · 1 Comment 

The following news story reminds me of the Cambie St. subway fiasco with the Canada line subway.
Fake tears from the city of Vancouver politicians, TransLink and the provincial NDP masquerade the fact that they knew this was going to happen and they do not give a damn about the merchants involved.

Vancouver business closing due to Broadway subway construction

By Darrian Matassa-Fung Global News
Posted January 15, 2023

From August 2021…………..

Broadway closed
On the local TV last night, small businesses along the Broadway construction zone are seeing huge drop in sales and a big increase in debt, due to closure of sidewalks.
Shades of the Canada Line debacle on Cambie 15 years ago!
BC’s Transportation Minister Ian Flemming, trundled out the old tried and true comment from the Canada Line days” that profits will return many fold as stated in the business case, after completion”.
Sorry, that maybe true for a surface light rail line, but not for a subway because subways tend to do the opposite and sterilize surface businesses between subway stations!
Just more politcal BS, justifying the BS Line!
From August 2021.

An interesting passage from Steve Munro’s critique of Neptis, which I was reading to gain some insight into the organization, in response to Mr. Burgess’s comment.

Towards the end of this lengthy report, this paragraph stood out.

The whole point of Transit City was to provide improved local, trunk services and to remain on the surface wherever possible to minimize capital costs while avoiding the sterilization of between-station areas with the wide spacing typically found on subway projects.

Let me restate the point of concern.

………. (transit is) to remain on the surface wherever possible to minimize capital costs while avoiding the sterilization of between-station areas with the wide spacing typically found on subway projects.

So now the truth come out, the Broadway subway will sterilize surface business’s along Broadway, between the subway stations.

This contrary to what TransLink and the Mayor of Vancouver is saying! This contrary to hosannas being sung about the subway by the Daily hive and the rest of the mainstream media.

The Broadway subway will harm surface businesses and the City of Vancouver and TransLink  are cowards for not telling merchants the truth, that the Broadway subway will sterilize Broadway!

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  1. Is the UBCx really a’no-brainer’? Council motion Oct 8 to put proposed Millennium Line UBC Extension to the test | CityHallWatch: Tools to engage in Vancouver city decisions says:
    October 7, 2025 at 11:23 pm

    […] CHW: Major amendment needed here. There has been much media coverage for years about the devastating impacts of Broadway Subway construction on residents’ health, demovictions, and failing businesses. Just two examples are “With Broadway subway still 2 years away, businesses say they’re getting ‘zero’ support” (Global News, 3-Jun-2025, link here) and “Vancouver businesses struggle as Broadway subway construction extends” (VIA, 12-Jun-2024, link here) and “BIA angry with province as Broadway Subway construction shutters Vancouver businesses” (City News, 19-Sep-2025, link here). Environmental impacts are also massive, including the dumping of significant amounts of excavated dirt into the Salish Sea, with First Nations’ approval (See “Where is all Vancouver’s dirt going?“). Also of concern, subways “sterilize” businesses along the route (link). […]



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