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Where is this?<\/p>\n

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Could be any suburban strip.\u00a0 The woman, unable to navigate the uneven surface of the asphalt sidewalk,\u00a0is smoking grimly as she steers her electric\u00a0scooter along the shoulder, confronting\u00a0the traffic that crowds the road in both directions.<\/p>\n

This is Vedder Road (map here<\/a>), an historic\u00a0country byway, now a south-Chilliwack arterial, only two lanes wide in this section as it funnels\u00a0traffic\u00a0between the Trans-Canada Highway and Cultus Lake.\u00a0\u00a0<\/a> It is one of the saddest strips in a province full of them – every business car dependent, every subdivision\u00a0feeding more vehicles into overloaded intersections.<\/a><\/p>\n

As Highway 1 is widened and its\u00a0interchanges expanded, the\u00a0future is already being realized at the Vedder interchange (below, click to enlarge<\/em>),\u00a0where nearly a square\u00a0kilometre is completely paved over with surface parking lots,\u00a0surrounding the\u00a0one-storey\u00a0boxes\u00a0that occupy\u00a0less than half\u00a0their sites.<\/p>\n

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Vedder interchange<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This is the a precursor of the Gateway Effect,\u00a0as the Trans-Canada Highway is turned into the Main Street of Fraser Valley suburbia, only prevented from merging into one endless strip mall by the Agricultural Land Reserve.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/a>Not that this is the only future possible.\u00a0 At the other end of Vedder Road, on what was once a Canadian Forces base, one of the better examples of New Urbanism\u00a0continues to build out (its retail village so new it’s not yet on Google.)\u00a0\u00a0 Garrison Crossing,<\/a> <\/a>a project of Canada Lands, is an attempt to build a mixed-use, mixed-density, amenity-rich alternative, with the hope that a walkable design may be sufficient to change the transportation habits of its residents.\u00a0 At the sushi-and-latte end of the social spectrum, it remains\u00a0in stark contrast to the Vedder-Road reality that flanks its eastern edge.<\/p>\n

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