As many of you will recall, the city has been working to adjust its building standards near the Fraser River, False Creek and Burrard Inlet to adapt to new projected sea-level increases over the next 100 years. Many of you weighed in on that.
One of the solutions that has been discussed was a flood-control barrier in False Creek. I hadn’t heard much more about that but there’s an interesting blog post here from someone in a position to know more about this. A provocative response incorporating links for other options like SkyTrain downtown and yonder. Your thoughts?
16 responses so far ↓
1 Richard // Apr 1, 2012 at 11:58 am
A great idea! We should follow the lead of Venice. Not sure about the windmills. Is there enough wind to make it worthwhile? Should have a bike path, food stalls and coffee shops!
2 IdleWild // Apr 1, 2012 at 12:03 pm
I say let the waters rise. Seakayaking is the future of alternative transportation. From the communters point of view, bikes and kayaks are competetively priced, but bonus points to kayaks for lower maintenance and upkeep. From the tax payer point of view, WAY lower infrastructure costs. In the paddle versus peddle debate, paddle wins!
3 gmgw // Apr 1, 2012 at 12:53 pm
Happy April 1st to you, too, Frances.
gmgw
4 Higgins // Apr 1, 2012 at 1:35 pm
Lame joke. Where is Glissando when you need him/her? 🙂
I have one for today:
Vision Vancouver is the majority in Council and Robertson is still… Mayor, or still, I dunno, and they are doing a very good job, at whatever they are doing…
5 Frances Bula // Apr 1, 2012 at 5:39 pm
@Higgins. You even have to critique people’s April Fool’s jokes? You need to lighten up. Come out and have a beer with us at the next Bulablog get-together and SAY SOMETHING NICE. 🙂
6 Bill McCreery // Apr 1, 2012 at 11:37 pm
Add a really, really tall tower at each end of the causeway and have a Skyline going across English Bay suspended between them. As a new and innovative transit form, in addition to helping increase transit ridership, it would be a great tourist attraction.
A new name might be difficult. So far we have English Bay nowhere near England, and those other magnificent aids to the recreational navigator: Lost Lagoon and False Creek. Perhaps the causeway could be called ‘Dutch Courage’ as those living behind it might need a wee bit of assistance in allaying their fears, never knowing whether the causeway would breach or the sea would engulf them from behind coming through the first Narrows.
7 Fred // Apr 2, 2012 at 8:17 am
The sad part is April 1st is every day for the Hollyhock Hippy Moonbats currently camped out at City Hall.
8 Glissando Remmy // Apr 2, 2012 at 11:02 am
Thought of The Day
“When the whole world fools around on the 1st of April, every year, Glissando rests…”
Higgins #4,
I’ve been saying this every year for… years 🙂 !
Here, par example … #27
http://www.francesbula.com/uncategorized/gregor-robertson-closes-deal-for-man-city-to-do-show-match-in-vancouver/
Having said that, what did I miss?
You phrased it beautifully:
“Vision Vancouver is the majority in Council and Robertson is still… Mayor, or still, I dunno, and they are doing a very good job, at whatever they are doing…”
Joke’s on us, year round as…
We still… live in Vancouver and this keeps us busy.
9 Andrew Browne // Apr 2, 2012 at 11:02 am
@Higgins and @Fred – You guys need to lighten up and enjoy a joke without obsessing about VV for a minute. Jeez! It’s almost Pavlovian.
10 Bill Lee // Apr 2, 2012 at 6:35 pm
Hmm.
An Aquarian? Wasn’t a former year’s Poisson d’Avril also about a speedy bike tunnel under False Creek?
Somehow the phrase “By sea and land we prosper” comes to mind. Not that the heraldic “supporters” exist anymore in this service-oriented urban sprawl.
11 MB // Apr 3, 2012 at 8:44 am
Geez, another climate change related post (albeit tongue-in-cheek) and the comment count hasn’t hit 100 yet?
C’mon Gman + Bill + Roger, what’s wrong with you? Lost your energy? Does the Low Effort Thought that underpins denial have no humour? No strident right-wing jokes about lefties stricking their middle finger in the dike?
Let’s hear it, boys.
12 Bill McCreery // Apr 3, 2012 at 9:51 am
Sorry to disappoint MB. We are waiting for you to rise to the occasion.
13 MB // Apr 3, 2012 at 11:33 am
Bill M., not you, or Bill L.. There’s another ‘Bill’ out there ever ready to score a point for long-dead and discredited Thatcherism and a false crisis called climategate.
Just poking the trolls with a stick for, you know, a bit of fun.
14 gman // Apr 3, 2012 at 10:03 pm
MB I think this joke is on you.Its the kind of thing you alarmists jump right on board with.Stay scared MB.
15 gman // Apr 3, 2012 at 10:09 pm
MB if you and the family don’t have an escape plan yet for the great floods may I suggest the grouse grind,you can run right to the top and tie yourself to the big wind mill.
16 MB // Apr 4, 2012 at 8:43 am
Stay scared MB.
LOL!
I’m actually quite content and optimistic that rational minds will eventually prevail. But thanks nonetheless for your concern.
And for taking the bait.