Vancouver & Surrey submitted a joint partnership to Infrastructure Canada's Smart Cities Challenge, proposing to create Canada’s first two collision-free multimodal corridors with driverless vehicles.
Vancouver's corridor will be 2 km along the south shore of False Creek from Granville Island to Science World, w connections to Olympic Village Station & Main Street-Science World Station. It will utilize the right-of-way from the former Olympic Line streetcar.
Surrey's corridor is a a 3.4-km-long route connecting Surrey Memorial Hospital & King George Station.
They're doing a free demonstration driverless shuttle in Feb:
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-surrey-free-driverless-shuttle-rides-2019
Their website:
https://www.smartertogether.ca/
Their Submission Document:
https://www.smartertogether.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/smart-cities-challenge-application.pdf
Couldn't Vancouver have gone ahead alone with this? Gastown/Hastings/Chinatown could've been a great 2nd choice instead of Surrey Memorial... Even north van makes more sense!
So does that mean the arbutus corridor streetcar won't be envisioned to connect all the way to Granville Island, Olympic Village, Science World eventually?
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