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Originally Posted by Trainguy
This article is full of misguided logic. The voters of Surrey chose to squash LRT, not Doug. Doug merely made the proposal and the citizens agreed with him. As for Skytrain costing more than LRT, if it is such a huge difference, then why are they building Skytrain all the way to Arbutus and then to UBC? Why not put an LRT from VCC all the way to UBC on the road with cars like was supposed to happen in Surrey? The argument is stupid if you ask me. Vancouverites don't want LRT and neither does Surrey.
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The significant difference between Vancouver and Surrey is ridership. There's simply no question that the Broadway corridor needs (desperately) a grade separated rapid transit backbone like SkyTrain. I think there's a fair argument to be made that this isn't true in Surrey.
But, conversely, this doesn't mean that Surrey needs LRT. IMHO the 80/20 rule applies here - it just doesn't make sense to build LRT at 80% of the cost and get only 20% of the benefit when a proper lane separated Bus Rapid Transit system can give much the same result at far less cost.
The problem is that even though a bus implementation is the most sensible course of action, it's seen politically as being a "third rate" solution. So it's just a non-starter that nobody seems to want to touch. People seem instead to want to spend spend first-rate prices on a second-rate solution.
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