As TransLink prepares to extend rapid bus service from the North Shore to Metrotown, businesses along East Hastings Street are raising concerns about parking.<\/p>\n
TransLink has blocked off parts of the curb lanes in both directions on East Hastings Street between Skeena Street and Boundary Road to install stops for the R2.<\/p>\n
Ferruccio Susin, owner of North America Sports at Hastings Street and Boundary Road, says customers can\u2019t park in front of his shop right now while TransLink installs new bus stops.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re here in the morning. I don\u2019t know what time they start, maybe 8, or 9 o\u2019clock,\u201d said Susin.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd by 3 o\u2019clock, they\u2019re finished. And yet the pylons are not removed. They\u2019re not moved over a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n
He says his customers have resorted to calling ahead before arriving to ask how to access the store.<\/p>\n
TransLink and the City of Vancouver have discussed implementing 24\/7 bus lanes for the R2, and Susin says he wouldn\u2019t approve.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy does the Translink need a lane after hours?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s only two peak hours from early in the morning when people go to work or go to school, and then in the evening when they go home.\u201d<\/p>\n
He says most parking on side streets is permit-only, which makes it almost impossible for customers and even deliveries to access his shop.<\/p>\n
Susin asked, \u201cHow are we supposed to survive when we\u2019re cutting customers for parking near, in front of the stores? The city is not providing any additional parking areas around Hastings.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to TransLink, the R2 extension does not include implementing new bus lanes, but says the option is still on the table and will be re-examined in 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As TransLink prepares to extend rapid bus service from the North Shore to Metrotown, businesses along East Hastings…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":638845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-638844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}