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   From: Panca@nyet.ca   
      
   Then the choice at the polls on Saturday should not be a difficult one.  Gregor   
   Robertson will fight them - just as he has CP Rail on their Aarbutus corridor.   
   The NPA doesn't care about oil tankers in the Vancouver harbour.  Think about   
   it.   
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   Mr. Robertson long ago declared war on the car, hiving off parts of busy,   
   central-city streets to put in bike lanes. Throw in lane closures for   
   construction and the result has often been gridlock. “As much as the mayor   
   would like to think otherwise, cars are not going away tomorrow,” Mr.   
   LaPointe   
   has said throughout the campaign, while touting a plan to introduce   
   counter-flow lanes to ease the congestion during peak hours. It’s a message   
   that’s resonated.   
      
   The mayor has also campaigned hard against the Kinder Morgan pipeline proposal,   
   saying the additional tankers that would fill the harbour to collect the crude   
   pose a safety risk. Again, Mr. LaPointe has used the mayor’s position to   
   suggest the man running the city is an anti-resource-industry ideologue using   
   his bully pulpit to proselytize on the evils of oil.   
      
   The mayor has other problems too. Affordable housing remains a concern of many   
   people, and Vision isn’t seen to have done much on this file. Mr. Robertson   
   will fail on his commitment to end street homelessness by January, 2015. On the   
   positive side, he’s held taxes low, kept the city’s books reasonably   
   healthy   
   and helped foster a growing technology sector.   
      
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