Rethink Metro 2050 — Before It Destroys Everything That Matters

🛑 Rethink Metro 2050 — Before It Destroys Everything That Matters

By Tina Winterlik aka Zipolita
🌎 💬 IG/X/FB: @zipolita

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Metro Vancouver’s Metro 2050 plan is NOT about people. It’s about money.
It’s a glossy, bureaucratic vision dressed up with nice-sounding words like “sustainability,” “complete communities,” and “climate action.” But in reality, it’s fueling a future where human health, happiness, and harmony are pushed aside for profit and population growth.

Let me break it down clearly:

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🚧 The Ugly Truth Behind Metro 2050

Metro 2050 claims it wants:

• Compact urban growth
• Transit-oriented housing
• Protected farmland and green space
• Healthy, inclusive communities

But what’s really happening?

• Massive towers crammed into already struggling neighbourhoods
• Farmland being quietly paved for warehouses and roads
• Tiny boxes called “homes” no one can afford
• People in Langley and Surrey expected to bus 2 hours each way to UBC
• Communities like Kitsilano being drowned in traffic, towers, and noise
• Sky-high rents, unaffordable groceries, no time or space to breathe

This plan isn’t about people. It’s about keeping the growth machine running for developers, investors, and politicians addicted to GDP.

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🤒 A Sick Society Can’t Be Planned Like This

You cannot build a healthy society when you treat people like numbers on a spreadsheet.

• What about mental health?
• What about families with no time to rest or connect?
• What about nature, Indigenous sovereignty, food security, joy, safety, soul?

These don’t fit neatly into the economic equations driving Metro 2050 — but they’re everything that really matters.

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⚠️ It’s Time to RETHINK It ALL

This plan is broken at the foundation.
We need a complete reboot — not just a few tweaks to boundaries or votes.

We need a people-first, land-honouring, health-centered plan that:

• Builds local, not just vertical
• Protects culture as much as infrastructure
• Invests in community care, not just concrete
• Supports food, water, well-being, and regeneration
• Respects Indigenous leadership and rights
• Values slowness, safety, beauty, and belonging

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✊ What You Can Do

🔥 Demand change. Loudly.
📣 Speak at council meetings.
📝 Write your MLA or city planner.
📢 Share this post.
🎨 Make art.
💚 Protect what’s sacred.

Metro 2050 is not destiny. It’s a decision — and we can choose something better.

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🌱 I’m Tina Winterlik — a mother, artist, and long-time advocate for the land and the people.
If you feel like screaming because it feels like no one is listening, you’re not alone.
But together, we can make noise — and rewrite the plan.

#RethinkMetro2050 #PeopleBeforeProfit #LandBack #HealthNotGrowth #ZipolitaSays