It’s a problem that Waterfront Station is privately owned. Why it should belong to us.
Michael Alexander is the retired founding director of SFU City Conversations, and a member of the Downtown Waterfront Working Group. SHARES Vancouver’s historic Waterfront Station, built in 1914, serves as a lovely public entry and meeting hall. Will it be stuck with the Ice Pick’?
Photo by Michael Alexander.
This month, New York City got an expensive lesson about why public transportation facilities should be publicly owned. It’s a wake-up for we who live in British Columbia’s Lower Mainland.
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