In the same way that the Pope comes off as Catholic, yes.
gmgw

Spare me the 1950′s era attitude and this stuff about “affordability”. Most people can make far better choices with the money they have but they choose not to because they are too good to sacrifice what they believe is important.

People express their true values when they choose a home to buy. Living in a suburb far away from where you work because is it “better for the kids” is ridiculous when you then have to spend 2 hours + per day away from your kids commuting. Is it really their kids they’re putting first?

Most of these folks go even further and choose to buy and financially support two cars because they “need” them. If they’d taken the dollars for those car payments and applied it to a monthly mortgage on a more expensive house in a more accessible location, they would have had a far more positive impact on their family’s lifestyle and future net worth. So – I call B.S. on the “affordability” defence.

Most of the large number of people who ride those buses daily seem to feel that doubling their frequency of service is no compensation for halving the distance they travel.

As for those whiny people in “obscure cul-de-sacs in obscure suburbs” you keep bitching about, Shane, did you ever stop and think for even one minute that maybe they live out there because that’s how far out they had to go before they could find a house they could afford? That maybe they wanted their kids to grow up in a house with a back yard they could play in, rather than in a condo? You take inner-city elitism to new heights, you really do.
gmgw

I think I can safely say that if they live in said obscure of the obscure, that access to transit had absolutely ZERO weighting in their decision matrix when they chose their residence.

Therefore, they have no right to complain.

Most of those coach express buses are going from 60 minute, to 30 minute frequency no?

Alter ego, Frances? Perhaps an intentional ploy on the part of the sun to retain readers disappointed in your departure (but happy you’re contributing to the Globe.)

Now we have a great new rapid-transit service with new stations.

How should city planning policy shift to make use of the Cambie Corridor?

What new businesses might be viable now that more people can reach certain nodes?

Will it be possible to develop more housing units near transit stations, thereby giving more people an option to live in Vancouver? and perhaps helping to mitigate sky rocketing costs of renting or owning because of the supply/demand imbalance.

Lets use the line, rather than continue wasting energy arguing about whether it should have been built how it was.

Let’s see what happens in a year from now. IMO it will be well-used and indispensable part of our transit system.