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Originally Posted by GlassCity
Yeah I don't understand the argument that it's not dense enough west of Arbutus when we're building SkyTrain to Coquitlam and Langley. There is plenty of commercial space all along the corridor, and due to the gridded street network the houses are denser then they look. As Jebby says, it can still be densified without too many issues, not to mention that the western end of the line would likely be the second biggest transit anchor after downtown. Not building it to UBC in one go would be a very poor decision that would be difficult to back up.
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Maybe everyone anticipates the difficulty to densify West Broadway further compared to the potential to densify in the tri-cities. The Evergreen line will definitely bring about a boom in high-rise construction there, but in Van west, not really possible. The selfish old guard will come out to "defend their turfs". The most practical thing to do is to extend the skytrain in stages: first to Arbutus, and then possibly further west to UBC after the old guard die off sometime in the future.