Saturday, April 25, 2015

Vancouver and the dilemma of success



The Canadian city of Vancouver, the best city to live in the American continent and fifth of the world, according to the classification Mercer; provides for an increase in its population of around one million in the next 10 years of the current 2.5 million (40 % ). With this forecast, the provincial government of British Columbia has raised a referendum in May to the inhabitants of the city, to decide whether to accept pay extra taxes for the improvement and expansion of the public transport network. The dilemma of the vancouveritas is not only to pay more taxes, but to decide if they want to add to their city more roads, buses, trams and ferries that can checkmate the housing and environmental quality of the city, its greatest strengths to lead the list Mercer. The polls suggest that the 'no' shall be imposed in the query that ends this May 29 and that has been permitted to vote by mail for a month and a half.