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Originally Posted by Zassk
Are Fleetwood and Guildford higher priority destinations than Newton? What about Cloverdale? Which of these town centres is projected to have the most density and growth in this time frame?
A system like Flexity could tie together 3-4 town centres in Surrey at a reasonable cost. Or perhaps the existing rail lines could be used to operate an O-Train-like service.
Whatever is set up in Surrey should anchor some kind of valley rapid transit service.
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DISTANCE
City Centre to Newton = 6.4km
City Centre to Guildford & Fleetwood = 6.9km
POPULATION (Estimate as of June 2009/Estimate 2026)
Newton = 120,714 / 169,709
Guildford = 59,542 / 65,341
Fleetwood = 59,057 / 60,411
Yeah this is pretty much a toss up. The lines are around the same size and serve a similar population base. The Newton has a large industrial base and Guildford/Fleetwood has a large commercial base. I think the whole reason why the Government chose Guildford/Fleetwood is due to immediate highway access to get cars off of the Port Mann, future expansion of the system over the Port Mann, and it's next logical destination being Cloverdale/Langley City. I am in favour of networking the City Centre, town centres and Langley City under the same ground level LRT system. It works in Toronto, and even freaking Tacoma has one, so why can't Surrey/Langley have one?