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Do you want to take over the Robson Street space and turn it into a playground? Here’s your chance

January 23rd, 2014 · 6 Comments

City design competition to come up with this year’s ideas for public playspace on Robson between the art gallery and courthouse now open. Entry form is here.

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  • 1 Joe Just Joe // Jan 23, 2014 at 7:49 pm

    Wonder how well a submission of leaving the road as it sits now would go over.

  • 2 Richard // Jan 23, 2014 at 9:13 pm

    Or making all of Robson a pedestrian street like it should be.

  • 3 IanS // Jan 24, 2014 at 7:43 am

    Not dissimilar to the approach they took to help justify the decision to take down the viaducts.

  • 4 jolson // Jan 27, 2014 at 2:48 pm

    Park a trolley in the middle of Robson Street, change the banner to read Going Nowhere, and sell sandwiches inside. Keep the seats for that extra dining ambiance.

  • 5 Mira // Jan 29, 2014 at 10:52 am

    Another foolish idea that comes out of the Vancouver’s City hall nervous system, and supervised by the big Vision vancouver brains. Who cares that their brilliancy will inconvenience thousands that depend on the public transit and need to go to work/home in a hurry? They are not exactly working, and they don’t live there anyway, and hey, with their expense accounts at hand they could always rent a car or call a taxi, like Geoff Meggs for example, or bike merrily like Gregorito …

  • 6 brian // Jan 29, 2014 at 4:29 pm

    Those damned elites and their bicycles…