Gastown business owners and their representatives are alarmed at how much City of Vancouver changes to traffic patterns in the area have reduced retail and hospitality sales during street reconstruction.
If this continues, the Gastown Business Improvement Society (GBIS) says it may ask the city to curb a planned pilot project to make parts of the neighbourhood pedestrian-only in July and August, executive director Walley Wargolet told BIV.
“We are going to be measuring this, and if the impact, as currently seen, continues during the pilot, we would ask that the pilot be stopped immediately and that the street be reopened,” he said.
BIV asked Vancouver Coun. Sarah Kirby
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