UBCx - Millennium Line Extension Arbutus to UBC | Proposed
 

Let's discuss the UBC extension here.

Thank god we have a separate thread from the Central Broadway extension!

I already shared this on the other thread, but I thought I'd post it again here:
https://i.imgur.com/vRtqTRY.png

My map of the UBC Extension with possible potential corridors and stations.

https://skytrain.ubc.ca/wp-content/u...BCLine_Map.png
https://skytrain.ubc.ca/about-the-project/
* Despite what's shown here, there will almost certainly be station located on Jericho Lands, as its planning process have revealed.


https://skytrain.ubc.ca/wp-content/u...time-graph.png
https://skytrain.ubc.ca/about-the-project/

https://skytrain.ubc.ca/why-skytrain/

https://skytrain.ubc.ca/impact-benef...oadway-to-ubc/


Before this thread get's too far into the personal fantasies, and debates about what constitutes the start of construction, I thought it would be good to include some data from one of the stakeholders.

Great data. There's a really strong connection between UBC and the VGH/Health Sciences area, where parking is a total nightmare. This will be great.

And despite what the Condonbots insist, Zoom and Teams are insufficient for those kinds of meetings.

Much like Diego's image, I've built a Google Maps version of the proposed route, with data linked to all the studies, data on all of the large development proposals coming up (with links to the development details), and various proposed routes.
All you have to do is click on the highlighted stations, lines, or neighbourhoods to see the data:

https://www.google.com/maps/@49.2647...ucF-N-ZCTfemJd

Well, after all that kerfuffle in the other Millennium line thread, I think this one needs the "Proposed" suffix to make it official.

Yeah, they had some other argument before they even knew what those tools were. :D

Very cool, thanks!

Does anybody know what the justification is for the end spot of the line? I'm not too familiar with UBC, but wouldn't something just a little closer to Thunderbird and the other sports fields be better, like right on W16th for other connections?

Is that area where it ends super dense with student activity?

Heh, do you mean when they insisted that SkyTrain was a monopoly, or that we should've build student housing on the golf courses instead?

That's Wesbrook - once finished, it'll effectively house a third of the entire university.

Oh who knows. Something about Europe and trams.


Ah ok, makes sense then, thanks.

Is this U/C or Proposed?

What do you think?

I imagine those car travel times will also go up as the Broadway Corridor is made more walkable, making transit times even more competitive.

Removing the parade of 99 buses (and the subway construction) will improve driving time.

That will be marginal at best. Adding more traffic lights and making the signal cycles more pedestrian-friendly will more than offset this.

If you want to get from any of the above locations (except YVR) to UBC fast, you take the train. Pretty simple calculus to me:shrug:

commercial traffic doesnt take transit. You think goods just magically teleport?

Good thing TransLink's building a grade-separated line capable of moving 25,000 people/hour - now everybody who can possibly take the SkyTrain is free to do so, leaving Broadway and 12th open for trades and truckers. Works for Paris, HK and Osaka.