Article content When Vancouver park commissioners voted 4-3 Monday to reject a reconfiguration bike and car traffic into Stanley Park, the decision was described as both proof of the importance of Vancouver’s elected park board — unique among B.C. cities — and proof that it should be abolished.
It was the latest chapter of the fracas between members of Vancouver’s elected park board and city council. Considering the obvious tensions between the two bodies, and the delayed timeline for the board’s expected dissolution, it might not be the last. “There clearly is dysfunction.
There clearly is animus on both sides,” said Kareem Allam, who managed the successful 2022 election campaign for ABC and Mayor Ken Sim before returning to the private sector. “It’s not good for Vancouver taxpayers.” “I would just beg everyone to get in a room and sort it out for the good of the city,” Allam said.
“And I know that they can get in a room and hammer it out together because they were able to find alignment during the last election campaign. ..
. Figure it out, guys. I know you can.
” Sim, who in December to dissolve the elected park board and brings parks under council’s control, said the board “let down Vancouverites” with an “irrational decision not to grow and expand park space in the West End.” aimed to reintroduce two-way car traffic along Beach Avenue west of Denman Street. The project, which was estimated to cost $16 million, would expand the road to .