Don’t Portlandize our streets.
Shrinking our streets to one lane each direction is not only ill-advised, it is neglectful of any common sense. Southeast 34th Street is now two lanes each direction, as it should be, and is a major access street to Southeast 164th Street and on to state Highway 14. Leave it alone.
The same holds true for Southeast McGillivray Boulevard.
The future holds a massive increase in population density in our 34th Avenue neighborhood where an 1,800-unit conglomerate of apartments and businesses was recently approved to replace the very welcome and comfortable cows now occupying the land. Staffers may think bringing Portland street designs to Vancouver is the future. We, and I do mean we, absolutely oppose this ridiculous and wasteful street-shrinking plan. Take a drive down to Portland if you want to see the failed transportation plan in person.
These are our streets, not the city’s to fiddle with on some engineer’s whim. We are many who oppose this abomination. Listen to the citizens, we are Vancouver. We drive these streets.
