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View Poll Results: Based on options for Broadway Corridor Study, what is your preferred choice?
BRT: Commercial to UBC 25 6.16%
LRT A: Commercial to UBC OR Commercial via VCC to UBC 31 7.64%
LRT B: Main St. to UBC AND Commercial to UBC 18 4.43%
RRT: Commercial to UBC OR VCC to UBC 283 69.70%
COMBO: RRT to Arbutus/LRT to Main St via Arbutus 39 9.61%
BUS: Enhanced Bus Service for all buses to UBC 10 2.46%
Voters: 406. You may not vote on this poll

 

 
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Old Posted Nov 24, 2016, 6:39 AM
urbancanadian urbancanadian is offline
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Originally Posted by aberdeen5698 View Post
I think people here have gotten spoiled by previous Skytrain expansion projects which were mostly either elevated or followed preexisting rights of way. Those could be built with minimal impact on traffic and subsurface infrastructure. Construction along the heavily-traveled and critical Broadway corridor is going to be far more technically challenging.
Just look at the Spadina Extension in Toronto and how long that project is taking. And half of the stations are being built in the middle of nowhere. But it is underground.
     
     
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