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Originally Posted by jhausner
Here is an illustration of what I am talking about :
Orange near bottom would be the new rail crossing, purple is existing railway there already with crossings to the North (x2), Red [X]s are where you could remove all the rail approaches and crossing points if the bridge were moved. That's a lot of rail to go away allowing Surrey to develop that land better.
It would also provide a more efficient route for trains between the docks/CN yards and Annacis Island industrial land. They wouldn't need to first swing North crossing @ Pattullo then head west then swing back south crossing 2 bridges. They could instead just cut directly and cross once.
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The problem with that is BNSF trains headed for False Creek flats (and Cascades passenger trains) would all pass through downtown New Westminster along Front Street (as well as the new waterfront residential area at the tip of Queensborough).
I suspect that would be a significant increase in traffic.