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Originally Posted by jhausner
And that graphic basically shows the option I'd put money on will end up being done, RRT1.
I've said it for years, SkyTrain from Surrey Central -> Langley Center because SkyTrain = Backbone regional transit. BRT to Guildford and Newton until LRT can be justified. Better bus access to White Rock/South Surrey from Newton with the busses freed up along 104th and KGB.
Done like dinner. If LRT gets built it will only be if Surrey ponies up the money I believe and I don't buy their argument that SkyTrain cuts communities in two. It certainly hasn't done that anywhere else so far why would Surrey magically be different?
I just think developers have to think more with their brains and start integrating designs and development around SkyTrain stations to make them more inclusive. And city hall needs to hold them to account. If you hold real-estate next to SkyTrain, you should be required to integrate somehow.
Either way if they build SkyTrain to Langley like the option presented, we won't talk about rapid transit through Surrey to Langley for the next 30 years I guarantee it.
Does anyone ever talk about the traffic between Metrotown and Vancouver anymore? Nope.
"Oh there was a lot of traffic on Kingsway when I was driving from Main Street to Metrotown" says complainer.
"Get your but on SkyTrain" says everyone else.
Case closed.
Get it done right the first time. It's $2.2 billion today, it's $8 billion tomorrow.
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Agreed. It doesn't cut communities in two, and it would have been significantly cheaper, faster, easier to expand, and a whole lot less disruptive to have the Canada Line elevated say from, 19th or 20th Avenue southward all the way along Cambie.
However, the project would have been mired in lawsuits and it never would have gotten built.
Cambie south of 20th was an extremely good candidate for an elevated guideway, even better than Fraser Highway is.