Best of Vancouver 2011: Our contributors’ picks

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      For the Georgia Straight’s 16th annual Best of Vancouver issue, our editorial team has spent months on the lookout for good deeds, weird urban details, and various howlers to highlight.

      Sometimes the best is simply the best. Elsewhere, it’s the funniest. Or the tastiest. Or the rudest. Or the most outrageous.

      Here’s our contributors’ picks for Best of Vancouver 2011.

      Contributors
      Carolyn Ali, Matthew Burrows, Yolande Cole, Michelle da Silva, Martin Dunphy, Stephen Hui, Gail Johnson, Judith Lane, John Lucas, Brian Lynch, Adrian Mack, Miranda Nelson, Steve Newton, Carlito Pablo, Jennie Ramstad, Charlie Smith, Janet Smith, Craig Takeuchi, Stephen Thomson, Mike Usinger, Jessica Werb, and Pieta Woolley

      Editors
      Carolyn Ali, Martin Dunphy, Stephen Hui, John Lucas, Brian Lynch, Miranda Nelson, Charlie Smith, Janet Smith, and Mike Usinger

       

       

       

       

       

       

       

       

       

       

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      James G

      Sep 23, 2011 at 6:37pm

      Which contributor wrote such a puff piece for Meggsomaniac's pet project of bringing down the Georgia and Dunsmuir viaducts?

      It might help Commercial Drive but it just adds problems to Hastings, hardly at present the best served area of Vancouver. The fable that there is a magic freeway through cheap and unoccupied lands in False Creek may as well have been written by L. Frank Baum. If the City returns a new Hell of a second Vision Vancouver majority and they hold true to their rush to the wrecking ball, these arteries will be demolished without a proper consultation process and before the promised Yellow Brick Road through False Creek is ever found.

      Did anyone of you Drive NIMBYs even consider that just moving that "no entry" sign from the corner of Venables and Commercial, moving to Venables to Clark would have the same effect?

      Strangely, the suggestion that 30 new residential towers on the land vacated by the viaducts would result in more traffic didn't occur to the author, who also conveniently "forgot" to remind everyone that big developers are major campaign contributors to Vision.

      I wouldn't be surprised to find it was written by Councilor Brownshirt, aka Andrea Reimer. She started out as merely the candidate who rode with Critical Mass, showing contempt for the rule of law and support for the use of social thuggery to enforce political opinion. From there, she was reputed to have claimed that her goal on City Council was to make changes that were so costly that democratic reversal by the electorate would be unaffordable. Just lately she was the hack sent to meet in-camera with residents of social housing to tell them they will have to pay the costs of her half-wit "Green" agenda or face eviction.

      They say Ernst Roehm had no children ... well, no natural ones maybe but those born of the dragons' teeth of his attitudes are alive and well and serving Vision Vancouver. Usually the only difference is that the shirts have changed from brown to green but for one City Councilor, the brown is clearly showing.