'Ridiculous': 14 levels of underground parking in proposed 80-storey Burnaby tower draw concerns
www.burnabynow.com
As Burnaby approves taller and taller condo towers, the parking gets deeper and deeper. “It’ll take 10 minutes just for somebody to park their car,” said a city councillor.

See final paragraph - set to be the tallest building in Western Canada. The article focuses on the 14 stories of underground parking that will be included, which does seem excessive given that the SkyTrain is literally across the street.

  • corsicanguppy
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    1 year ago

    To be fair, a hospital might be one of those places where parking is legitimately necessary for accessibility reasons.

    People going to the hospital are, on average, more likely to be suffering from some chronic conditions that prevent them from biking/walking effectively.

    That’s another great point they seemed to not take into account when planning to put absolutely nothing in the potentially-6-floors they could have created under this expansion. We already see that the current care area has no parking for the regular staff there; expand the space and try to fit double the staff and non-emergency patients and their family?

    I’m not sure everyone realizes that Maple Ridge and Chilliwack and the North Shore exist; places that will likely always need a car to come from – either for support staff who don’t get paid enough to afford a 1.1m place within the train network, or for incident-related visitors who can’t handle a 90-min commute each way to go visit Grandma on the daily.