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Originally Posted by Migrant_Coconut
Most definitely, but growth along main corridors (at least in this metro) tends to follow a bell curve, with KGB/104th and Fraser currently being on the bottom. The LRT as planned would be an unnecessary luxury right now and horrendously insufficient in the future, whereas a true rapid bus upgradeable to SkyTrain would scale much better.
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I agree
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Originally Posted by Migrant_Coconut
- Anything LRT can do, BRT can do; same frequency, same speed. LRT's just slightly bigger and prettier.
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Hmm. That’s mostly true. The one advantage LRT has over BRT is capacity. The question is, does Surrey need capacities between about 10,000 and 15,000 pphpd (the approximate upper capacities of a genetic BRT and LRT systems respectively).
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