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Originally Posted by punface
The video of the Vancouver City Council meeting yesterday where they discussed the TransLink’s UBC Line Rapid Transit Study report is up on the CoV website: http://vancouver.ca/ctyclerk/cclerk/20101005/ttra20101005ag.htm
I skipped through it, watching about half the total content. My impression is that everyone is pretty pro-SkyTrain, but not willing to come out and say it at this stage.
Of the four speakers from the public, only one was against SkyTrain, stating it was expensive, causes problems during construction, is not accessible to people with disabilities or strollers, and would not remove road space.
Another speaker had a powerpoint slide which suggested continuing from VCC-Clark to Fraser&Broadway instead of Great Northern Way (seems like a good idea to me.)
Another speaker was a former CoV transportation employee who made a strong case for bored tunnel.
After 1.5 hours of that, it looks like there was a bicycle lane meeting that went all night. You couldn't pay me enough money to get into politics.  |
Not accessible? Tell that to the 4 babies in strollers on my Skytrain car last night... AT 10 freaking 30 at night!!!! Don't babies have bedtimes anymore?
I think boring straight to Fraser and Broadway can make sense under the right circumstances. Metro Vancouver is really trying to keep the False Creek Flats 100% industrial to preserve the rail yards. Their reasoning is even if they are underused now, it will be impossible to replace the space if it's needed at a later time, especially for something important to downtown like High Speed rail. And Vision Vancouver seems to want to keep it industrial and try and revive the local warehouse industry, for locally used goods, to lower the city's carbon footprint. So if the flats are to remain industrial for the long term future it might be more logical to put a station on Broadway at Fraser, as that area can (and is) become more densely populated.
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