Vancouver’s mayor thinks city’s infrastructure is doing okay

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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – Vancouver has its share of aging infrastructure, including current concerns about the stability of underground support columns at West Cordova Street. But the mayor thinks we’re not doing too bad compared to other cities.

Gregor Robertson has been front and centre in recent weeks as cities across the country lobby the federal government for more infrastructure money.

The mayor says Vancouver could use hundreds of millions of dollars to upgrade and invest.    “We need more investment from the federal government in infrastructure to deal with the deficit that we do face.”
    
But despite all that, Robertson says we’re doing okay compared to other Canadian cities. “Vancouver has relatively modern infrastructure, so we don’t have a lot of problems. But we had a big sinkhole down near Marine Drive recently. We have the odd problem, some bridges aging.”

Part of West Cordova Street in downtown Vancouver is closed over concerns about the underground support columns.

Buses and heavy trucks have been banned from the westbound curb lane of West Cordova near Waterfront Station (between Granville and Seymour). Crews hope that will lighten the load and prevent anything from happening in the short-term.

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