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Old Posted Oct 27, 2022, 9:23 PM
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I mean great for you professor, you've got your entire life within biking radius and never need to go beyond it. That isn't practical and should NOT be mandatory for the entire metro.

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Originally Posted by madog222 View Post
"He says surface light rail..."

And that's where I stopped reading
Condon's been singing the same tired old song since at least 2010, but doesn't seem to realize that nobody except his two dozen cultists and desperate West Side NIMBYs is listening anymore - everybody else wants SkyTrain.

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Originally Posted by FarmerHaight View Post
... I don't really see how light rail is any better than BRT if they both run at grade, especially since BRT is soooo much cheaper.
Light rail does get an advantage when it's on an old train corridor that's partly-separated from the road network... of which Vancouver no longer has any, so he wants to run block-long trains down our busiest streets every five minutes.

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