https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/local-news/climate-activists-to-block-lions-gate-bridge-friday-morning-4800782 Due to the cities multi-decade long refusal to build up big city infrastructure, people are left with a 3 lane bottleneck. AKA, the Lions_Gate_Bridge. Its difficult to have rapid bus & HOV lanes when there are only 3 lanes to work with. Fortunately, most cities aren't thwarted by something like the Vancouver power-structure & backward BC mindset.
Other scenic cities such as, Seattle, SF, Sydney, Auckland & Rio just don't have Vancouver type restrictions to prevent building a big wide bridge across their harbors.
This is what happens when BC can't build a wall or electric fence around it. The, KEEP THEM OUT mentality is very strong in Vancouver & Victoria & BC in general.
Why build up proper size infrastructure when you can just cause more disruptions & congestion?
A lot of people don't have much of a choice but to use the inept 3 lane Lions_Gate_Bridge.
Vancouver & the North_Shore should have worked together decades ago to build their own version of something like the Downtown_Seattle_Transit_Tunnel. First for rapid buses & then LRT with a provision to become very high capacity. Fortunately, Vancouver wasn't able to stop Seattle, but Vancouver certainly continues to prevent itself from having big city infrastructure.
Another 3 lane wonder can be found in Victoria. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson_Street_Bridge
BC has such expertise in bottleneck planning, but for some reason, it can't seem to get most of the world to do the same.
