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Originally Posted by BaddieB
I feel like a new Skytrain line from Langley Centre to Carvolth down 200 would make more sense than going further into to Langley (not that we shouldn't two track it though). The Willoughby/Carvolth area is planned to be really dense over a large area, around 90 to 250 people per ha, which is akin to the Broadway area today (just without the jobs). There's even several highrises going up too (Jericho, Latimer Heights). The benefit of building a Skytrain SoF is there are very large stroads which provide a good ROW for Skytrain, as opposed to in the Burrard Peninsula. A 6km skytrain on 200 would be about $1.5B (or cheaper, construction costs have fallen).
Sounds ridiculous now, but Langley will be an unusually dense place in two decades.
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You may be surprised to learn that light rail of some sort up 200th Street was
proposed back in 2008 by Jordan Bateman (yes, the same Jordan Bateman who was with the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, pushed hard for voting no for the transit sales tax, and who's now with the Independent Contractors and Businesses Association) when he was a councillor with the Township of Langley. It made sense then, it makes sense now, and TransLink's going to at least be putting in BRT sometime in the next five years.
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