From Novae Rae Urbis, at Metro Vancouver’s Future of the Region series.

Speakers touched briefly on the provincial government’s plan to hold a referendum on regional transit, an idea that seemed to appall the Australian planners (Greg Vann and Warren Rowe).

“Please don’t have the referendum,” Vann said. “I think it’s extraordinarily distracting and I don’t know why a city which is leading the world would be seriously contemplating a referendum that says: ‘Don’t fund transit any more’.”

Rowe said the most successful cities around the world have good transit systems and land use to go with it.  “Don’t do the referendum, for god’s sake,” he said.

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More Metro Vancouver Future of the Region events:

Great City-Making Demands Innovation

NEW WESTMINSTER – Nov 28, 2013 NORTH VANCOUVER – Dec 10, 2013

Metro Vancouver is pleased to invite you to the next Future of the Region Sustainability Dialogues “Great City-Making Demands Innovation”.

From Australia to Metro Vancouver, what lessons can we learn about how to creatively accommodate growth and density? What do we need to understand about how, why and when land use and transportation planning best serve or shape each other? What can our communities look like, feel like, when we’ve made the right investments? How do the roles played by transportation and land use planning change when shifting from a city to regional scale?

NEW WESTMINSTER Nov 28, 2013 11:30AM to 2:00PM (lunch from 11:30am – 12:00pm) Inn at the Quay 900 Quayside Drive New Westminster

NORTH VANCOUVER Dec 10, 2013 11:30AM to 2:00PM (lunch from 11:30am – 12:00pm) Eagles Hall 170 West 3rd Street North Vancouver