[Metro-One]

LRT can work in Surrey, but the proper way to build LRT is that it is built separate from the road, most of Seattle's new LRT is on elevated guide-ways, tunnels and on its own rail bed, same with Calgary's C-train, Edmonton's light-rail, etc... Surrey has the space to build the LRT this way, so it should work. Building them down the middle or roads (unless it is only for a block or less) is a bad idea. Build the LRT with its own rail corridors (that is the only way they can achieve capacity greater than that of a metro). If they are built along the road then yes, they do become more of a street car than anything else. Of course when built in this fashion, the price rises (as we say from the proposed evergreen LRT) but it is the only sensible way to build LRT.

Just look at the pics of Seattle's system above, elevated guide-ways and separate rail bed corridors.

The majority of people supporting LRT in Vancouver cherry pick their examples. They use speed & capacity stats from LRT systems where the trains are primarily grade separated and given their own rail corridors, but then they give price and construction stats from systems that are built along the center or side of streets at grade (which have much slower speeds and reduced capacities).