Companies alongside Vancouver’s Broadway Hall are as soon as once more pissed off with the subway undertaking and what they are saying is an absence of communication from the provincial authorities.
The province had introduced it will shut down site visitors within the space round Major Road and Broadway for 4 months.
Nevertheless, on Friday morning, the province had not set a date for the closure, leaving enterprise house owners, who say they’ve already been struggling, not understanding the best way to plan for the disruption.
Then, hours after International Information requested an interview with the transportation minister, the Broadway Subway web site was up to date with a Jan. 26 closure date.
Get breaking Nationwide information
For information impacting Canada and all over the world, join breaking information alerts delivered on to you after they occur.
“This was by no means a part of the grand plans, so we really feel it was very a lot slapped collectively final minute, and the small print have been very sluggish in coming and there’s nonetheless some particulars that we have now but to see,” Neil Wyles with the Mount Nice Enterprise Enchancment Affiliation stated.
Ron MacGillivray, who owns Fable Diner, stated he doesn’t even imagine it’ll be a four-month closure.
“They are saying it’s gonna be 4 months, is it gonna be six months, eight months, how lengthy is it gonna take?” he stated.
“So you possibly can solely plan a lot prematurely, so proper now we virtually need to plan each day, week to week.”
The Transportation and Transit Ministry informed International Information that Minister Mike Farnworth was not accessible for an interview.
© 2026 International Information, a division of Corus Leisure Inc.
