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Location: White Rock BC
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You don't have to buy the entire track line and tell CP/CN to get lost. The entire Waterfront/NuWest/Fort Langley/Abby route has more than enough room to add at LEAST another track and probably 2. Such a line would serve downtown Abby, FL, the huge Glouchester industrial area, and have direct transfer stations onto SkyTrain at Scoot Road, Sapperton, Sperling-Burnaby Lake, Broadway, and Waterfront.
Contrary to popular belief, CN/CP do not usually have a problem using their corridors but it's the actual tracks they have an issue with. Translink/Victoria should be buying up land next to these tracks for their future use so as not to have to do it in 30 years when it will cost them 10X as much hoping the CN/CP hasn't already sold off the land. This does NOT require a lot of money nor having the money up front. They should have a LONG-term plan of buying up sections on a regular/yearly basis which is more financially viable and allows for a gradual introduction of service.
Commutes will continue to get longer and Vancouver's endless sprawl will only grow and Vancouver's notorious reputation of not building any highways or even expanding the ones they have, you MUST offer people alternative regional transit..........you can't have it both ways. This idea of just expanding SkyTrain into the Valley is ridiculous. There is a reason why no other city on the planet considers subways to the hinterlands as viable so why Translink thinks it's doable here is anyone's guess.
The commuters are coming and nothing is going to change that and so you either plan for them now or pay very dearly for it later both financially and as a quality of life metric.
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