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Originally Posted by biguc
They should absolutely do that. A few DMUs and ~15 sidings with platforms and Lower Mainland transportation service would become immeasurably better. If they do this and run WCE trains down to Abbotsford too, it could become a mini rail hub in its own right. Its downtown would almost certainly boom.
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They already did a study back in 2006 for Scott Road to Langley, and the conclusion? It was not nearly as cheap as most people thought:
https://www.translink.ca/-/media/transli...memorandum_phase_1/sofatp07phase1tm1.pdf
So the estimate for EMU running every 15min was about 700M. Back in that time, the estimate for SkyTrain to Langley was slightly above 1 billion I believe.