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City to build water-rise-control barrier on False Creek?

April 1st, 2012 · 16 Comments

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?

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  • Richard

    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!

  • IdleWild

    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!

  • gmgw

    Happy April 1st to you, too, Frances.
    gmgw

  • Higgins

    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…

  • Frances Bula

    @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. 🙂

  • Bill McCreery

    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.

  • Fred

    The sad part is April 1st is every day for the Hollyhock Hippy Moonbats currently camped out at City Hall.

  • Glissando Remmy

    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://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.

  • Andrew Browne

    @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.

  • Bill Lee

    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.

  • MB

    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.

  • Bill McCreery

    Sorry to disappoint MB. We are waiting for you to rise to the occasion.

  • MB

    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.

  • gman

    MB I think this joke is on you.Its the kind of thing you alarmists jump right on board with.Stay scared MB.

  • gman

    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.

  • MB

    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.