Comment by yongjik
8 years ago
That's interesting. What did they do so wrong to drive everyone out of business?
In Seoul I grew up watching subway construction all the time. Yes the local traffic suffers for many years, but the underground construction is covered with iron roofs that allow overground traffic, and people get used to it. After all, a street is likely to have subway construction because it had a large number of people using it: these people don't suddenly go away. (If they did, it would be a major blunder on the part of subway planners!)
> That's interesting. What did they do so wrong to drive everyone out of business?
The whole street looked like a large bomb crater for a year.
Yes, you could still access the buildings, but why on earth would you shop on Cambie, when you could go the next block over to Robson. Even a 10% reduction in customers could sink many retail businesses, over such a period of time.