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Old Posted Oct 16, 2009, 8:06 AM
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Originally Posted by fever View Post
I think the distances get to be too big to make extending skytrain worthwhile. It's just too long of a ride with too many stations.
It's better to differentiate services into a downtown surrey-centric LRT network for trips within north surrey, south surrey/white rock,
and north delta and a regional network for longer trips south of the fraser. It can start off as B-lines and commuter buses and
eventually switch over to rail line by line as ridership grows. It should also anticipate future connections across the fraser that may
happen decades down the road.

I think something like this would be pretty good for a ~4 million person Metro Vancouver. It might even be a bit too much. I'd be ok
with a LRT to UBC from Arbutus, for example.
I think this picture puts out an almost perfect plan
I dont think skytrain to Guildford is a smart idea cause it could really mess
up the city centre by make Whalley have to fight Guildford to be the main
commercial core of Surrey.

Although I think an lrt or rapid bus route to the fleetwood station from cloverdale would be a good add on.
Also make the lrt go down 152 to hit skytrain there so people in
guildford wouldnt have to ride all the way to central.

Also as for density in Newton Surrey doesnt plan to allow towers in that area
for a while atleast. They want to stick to little apartments and avoid office
that way.
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