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Originally Posted by aberdeen5698
Longer platforms at some stations are wasted unless all the other stations on the line are extended - and given the cost of doing that it may be a better cost/benefit case to just build a parallel relief line. One of the advantages of a new line (apart from the beneficial network effects) is you can build all the stations with a longer platform (as long as you don't insist on a branching line like all of the compatible Skytrain extensions have been).
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that's true; my concern though is that these are all underground stations, and they do not have any provisions for lengthening. it would be easier to extend the ones that are above ground/at grade.
i would hate to see us get to the point where. "well we can have 100m platforms... but now we cant because of the broadway subway"
thats my biggest concern. underground works after the fact are harder then than at grade/above ground.
after the UBC extension, Langley Extension, SFU gondola, i dont even see us needing another line until probably 2050.
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