Q: Am moving to vancouver after a couple months. I have narrowed the areas I wanna buy/rent in to 4 places which are: 1) Downtown 2) North Vancouver 3) West Vancouver 4) Vancouver ( Between UBC and Main street and no lower than 41st avenue west) Can someone please tell me the traffic conditions in these areas ?
A: The part missing from the other answers is none of these places are bad for traffic until you want to leave them. So if you don't have to leave the area any is fine. But you do want to leave for some reason or another and then North and West Vancouver become hard to escape with only a couple of options (bridges) of getting out. The 3 lane, Lions Gate bride can be hell. 3 lanes means 1 lane going one way, and 2 the other. It means that going against rush hour traffic is worse than going with it. Downtown is better because you have more directions to head in, and a lot more options if traffic is busy one way or another. Also, a lot fewer reasons to leave. Lots of bars, concerts, and sporting events are here. Actually, that can make the downtown traffic it's worst, when there is a big concert or hockey game. Or when one just finishes and you have 1,000's of people walking on the street and heading to their cars. UBC and Main is about second best, but again, bridges are the bottleneck if you want to get downtown.