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Originally Posted by jollyburger
There is no way you can do a Smith Station if you keep Patterson I assume? And even 2500 units isn't going to be enough to justify a station even with Wall's project next door.
Burnaby didn't like the compromise option. They went with Patterson to help the development of Metrotown and high density housing east of the park.
https://urbanshift.ca/wp-content/upl...in-Burnaby.pdf |
Thanks for this background - the rationale for Patterson over Smith made sense back then (to help the Metrotown development) though I'd now say that Metrotown station serves the Patterson area just fine and that Smith, today, seems like the slightly better spot to have a station between Joyce and Metrotown.
That ship has sailed though and I can't imagine a Smith station showing up in the next 20 years - only if density really goes through the roof in that area (which is possible). With the rezoning for transit area developments adding stations becomes a lot more interesting as they automatically will get density built around it so the financials for everyone makes more sense - I'd imagine over time that we'll see a few more stations added b/c of that (like at 57th and 33rd on the Canada Line, maybe between Main/Commercial on Expo line though not much residential there).
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