We should make everything free.
Then when we need the money to fund anything, we can just borrow it and pay interest and get further into debt.
Awesome idea.

... The causeway!! It makes downtown polluted.

So when you travel to other countries you'll be fine with being banned from their beautiful places and spaces because you're a dreaded tourist?
Let's just ban tourism and destroy our provincial economy outright!! Yes!!

The City of Vancouver should charge people who aren't Vancouver residents a fee of between $8 and $12 to visit Stanley Park. Vancouver residents could enjoy the park for free by showing their VPL library card or their community centre pass at the gate. VanDusen charges admission, why shouldn't Stanley Park? The funds must not be wasted though - they must be earmarked for affordable housing for our city's low-income seniors, disabled, and single parent families.

Put up a fence across the entrance. Charge people ten bucks a head to enter through a gate. A progressive city would do just that. User fees are the way of the future. If Disney can do it, so can we.

No, a progressive city would not bar those who live in less affluent areas from going to the major parks. The roadway and parking lot shut downs in parks are obscene NIMBY garbage as the affluent try anything to keep the poor out of their pretty neighbourhoods. Trash.

Let’s get rid of you.

Vancouver has lots of residents with moderate and low-incomes who would benefit from enjoying Stanley Park for free. Folks from outlying municipalities would just have to pay a user fee like at VanDusen Garden. It's Vancouver tax payers who fund the maintenance of Stanley Park. Others should pay for the privilege to use it.

Surely the intelligent people on this forum can realize that the area is called the GVRD for a reason. With the skewed logic the Op is presenting, then the airport should charge a fee for anyone who doesn’t live in Richmond, and every single other area of the GVRD should charge a fee to anyone with a City of Vancouver address if they dare to come to our neck of the woods. That would mean that Vancouverites couldn’t go to the Okanagan without paying an entrance fee. You can’t go to the big outlet mall in Richmond, or Steveston Village, or Whistler, or any of the wonderful parks in any other part of the province. Vancouver Island or the Gulf Islands? Forget about it unless you pay an entrance feel as well as the ferry charge. As a person who was born in, lived in, and owned property in Vancouver for decades, and who finally moved away because I couldn’t stand what was happening to the place, I paid my dues big time. In fact, you’d likely find that a large proportion of people living in any other parts of the GVRD at one time lived in the city. So please just close your pie hole.

Everyone paid a sizable airport improvement fee at in Richmond for quite a few years until it was finished. Less than a month ago the Vancouver mayor said the city needed millions and millions of dollars to get through the pandemic. Why not charge a Stanley Park improvement fee to non-Vancouverites until the pandemic debt is payed? It's a win win.