Metro Vancouver reviews ways to reduce the squeeze e-commerce puts on region
Steps as simple as creating municipality-wide inventories of loading zones, curbs and congestion points to gather data, then designating delivery areas near high-density housing to ease street congestion would be places to start, according to a staff summary of the report.Start your day with a roundup of B.C.-focused news and opinion delivered straight to your inbox at 7 a.m., Monday to Friday.
She added that the “absolute scarcity” of industrial land, which has had a less-than-one-per-cent vacancy rate over the last two years, driven by high demand for e-commerce is the biggest way the region is being squeezed.In Paris, for instance, authorities zone logistic services as “facilities necessary for public service,” not just industrial or commercial, which allows for so-called logistics hotels next to rail lines or highways.
In Singapore, for example, its port used revenue driven by the expansion of e-commerce to support spending on new technology to handle more shipping containers in far less space than the Port of Vancouver, cutting down on supply chain delays. Aderneck said Colliers’ first recommendation, to gather more data to help better understand how the region’s curb sides are being used, isn’t necessarily straightforward.
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