Millennium Line - Evergreen Extension | Completed

[Large Cat]

Originally Posted by red-paladin

Well, they wanted to avoid the situation in many US cities, where people would commonly drive to a train station, and then drive home from the station at the end of the day. I say this in Dallas, giant park and rides at the train stations in the suburbs. If you make it easy for people to do that, it makes it far less likely for them to take the bus, it actually disincentivizes it. That's why Translink tries to encourage everyone to take the bus to the Skytrain / WCE stations. I think this is completely reasonable for people that take one bus ride to the station. You need to set up the system so that enough people use those feeder / local buses, or else they will always be empty or only come by once an hour.

I get it when we are talking about people that don't want to wait 25 min for a bus or spend 45 min with a transfer even getting to the station. But everyone in New West for example should be taking the bus to the Skytrain stations, not driving. The buses need to be frequent enough to make that viable. I would be against massive expansion of Translink park and rides because it means less people on the buses and then that makes it more difficult to provide bus service for people that remain taking it.

To tie this in to the Evergreen line topic, I actually hope that most of the Coquitlam Central parking lots can be redeveloped, and for the park and ride functions to be further afield like Maple Ridge, Poco. Once the Evergreen line is up and running, most people in the tri-cities should be able to take a fast and frequent bus to the stations. People in the Port Moody, Coquitlam Centre areas shouldn't be driving to a park and ride.

Large 100% agree. I'm glad Translink takes the approach they do. Imagine how much more bottlenecked the bypass would be if there were a huge Park n Ride at Braid.

I too hope that Coquitlam Centre's surface parking will be redeveloped. And I hope something similar happens at Inlet Centre, which is the only station location that really confuses me.