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And that's just the ones that are able to accommodate a car. Can't speak for Canadian cities, but downtown parking in most cities in the United States is an absolute nightmare. There's always a catch: meters, 2-hour limits, street cleaning hours, residential permits, etc. Any side of a street that doesn't have a notice tends to get filled up by the end of the workday.
Canadian cities are just as nightmarish. It got even worse in Edmonton for a while when they removed an entire lane in the downtown cores just to put Bike Lanes. Y'know, in a city that experiences winter for 8 months. Any underground parking is usually kept for the Elite of the Elite and most people scramble to find a place to stick their vehicles in the river valley or up in the murder zones where they take the train in. If I remember when I lived in Vancouver, it was even worse because 90% of the population is Asian and can't drive anyways, so fat chance of ever finding parking.
So clogging these arteries with trucks and tractors that can fill up the entire street is sheer brilliance on its own. Knocking out Jasper Avenue would send Edmonton into a spiral because the downtownies wouldn't know what to do. They'd probably have to park down in Chinatown where all the bums live and actually be forced to see the crackheads they're so adamant don't exist in their fair city.