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Originally Posted by DKaz
I'd much rather see White Rock and South Surrey linked to Vancouver with commuter rail (with a station in Ladner, Steveston, and somewhere in central Richmond). That'll be a busy line right there.
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I like that idea, but have to ask: is there enough population density to warrant a decent train frequency? That's what seems to attract people from their cars: frequency of service.
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Originally Posted by Zassk
^ Commuter rail is a neat idea, but the places you mentioned are not laid out linearly. 1) There is no existing rail crossing of the South Arm to serve Ladner or to loop past Steveston, 2) it is a massive detour to send Surrey/White Rock people over to Ladner when their trains could go straight north to New West instead.
The best hope for Ladner is probably to shoehorn an ALRT line into one of the tubes of the George Massey Tunnel after a replacement bridge is built for car traffic.
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Another good idea of putting ALRT into a GM Tunnel tube if/when it gets twinned or expanded. Here, my question is:
1: What routing would it take?
2: What type of technology? Rotem, to link to the Canada Line, or another (e.g. Bombardier...) if it takes another route?