I'm not trying to spread blame. I noted twice in my post that the demolition wasn't done properly. However the City of Vancouver is one of the only major cities in North America where a policy is not in place for the entire street to be shutdown to pedestrian and auto traffic when there is a relatively small building setback along a major street in at downtown core. There should be proper policies and regulations in place, so if an accident does occur, such as this, nobody is in danger.

Might be the lesser of the mistakes but still a fail on their part. They chose to lighten the traffic load over clearing a potentially dangerous area.

As Liquid_o2 stated, no denying the demo crew could've managed the site better and went in with a better plan but the city should've allowed them more space. Look how close the building is to the street.

lol @ the bgm