:previous: Front yards actually, and we're not all rich. You physically couldn't fit it in properly. Imagine clear cutting most of the trees and columns 30 feet from the front door. Housing prices would drop like a stone. Let's stop talking about 8th as an above ground option please. 10th is no different. Completely absurd IMO.
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it either has to run along the street like portland or go underground
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As my previous post indicates, I'm as much a fan as anyone of an above-ground skytrain, but the most reasonable suggestion here seems to me to be a line that is underground for the length of Broadway, and above-ground when it gets to the endowment lands. This would be the most responsible budget-wise, and would alienate few of us, I think, from an aesthetic point of view.
Putting the line down the middle of Broadway and having it work might be possible in my own dictatorial utopia :whip:, but in the real world it would, as paradigm4 suggests, destroy the feel of the street. The line would not be adequately serving the high density along Broadway if it was put anywhere else, and even I must admit that the back alleyway would be disastrous for whoever is occupying the above-ground residential or commercial suites (otherwise, I wish the New West alley configuration could be transplanted, not that the results in that city haven't been a bit mixed). And no, the change of heart was not due entirely to deasine's death threats.:haha: |
Just put it under 10th, then have it come above ground before it gets to UBC.
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We need a skytrain up to SFU too. Good thing I left my house early today, when I got off the skytrain at production way, the bus had just left and the lineup was zero so I stood there and waited. Somehow, the next bus was 15 mins late and 8 skytrains(4 from each direction) past and the whole production way station platform was JAMMED, the line up was basically curling around those big poles that hold up the building above it. It was just a nightmare. Like I said, good thing I left early today or I might have had to wait for 5-6 buses(articulate) before getting on.
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Not sure if SkyTrain would be the best choice for SFU honestly. Some form of more reliable rapid transit for sure, but not necessarily SkyTrain. LRT along the Hastings Corridor would be nice.
I always envisioned a LRT from SFU down the Hastings Corridor through Downtown and across the Lions Gate Bridge (a four lane tunnel, expandable to six, will be built for car traffic). |
Have a gondola going up to SFU from Production Way Station, like the Whistler Peak to Peak with similar cabins.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_Aerial_Tram Although I think a gondola system uses more cars. |
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The problem with the Portland aerial tram is that it has very limited capacity....you can only have one cabin and it only gives you a capacity of about 60 people....hardly enough for going up Burnaby Mountain. |
i could see a tran going from deep cover over the inlet up to SFU and down to the skytrain station
now that would change the lower mainland traffic ;) |
i have heard that a gondola system is under consideration at SFU. but it prob wont be for a looong while if it does occur
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The Hastings LRT corridor could be the start of the future Streetcar/LRT network throughout Vancouver. You could have potential Streetcar/LRT lines branching off the main Hastings line, like Victoria Streetcar. |
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A question though - would the grade on Burnaby Mountain be too steep for a streetcar/LRT? |
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what about a little gondola only a few per thing?
like they use this one in spain http://photos-b.ak.facebook.com/phot...92337_9081.jpg people are gonna be aware that it is a slow mode and can acoomodate for it |
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