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Originally Posted by Spr0ckets
No, actually I love your list.
I was just poking some fun at what people tend to fixate on when project proposals and information like this tends to be released.
In the grand scheme of things, if there was anything there to be fixated about, at least your list serves a useful and informative purpose.
I believe there once was a notion of having a interregnum station between Patterson and Joyce Collingwood, but for the longest time there simply hasn't been the density and foot traffic in that area to justify having such a station there.
Most of the potential foot traffic would be cannibalized by Patterson and Joyce-Collingwood and Patterson (whose own traffic is likewise cannibalized by Metrotown's much bigger Transit hub station), anyway.
I guess the argument could be made that the combination of this development bringing 2,500 homes with the next door residential complex along with the lowrise homes north of Kingsway and the Park, would eventually give the sort of numbers that could justify it, but I don't know the logistics and feasibility of adding a station to an already existing line and in between two stations - as opposed to at the end of a terminus station as an extension - and whether it would even be financially viable to do so.
I could see Transllink and the cities instead pushing for a bus transfer loop instead - but again,......there's already a transfer loop at Joyce Collingwood and a major loop and hub at Metrotown just a couple of stops away.
I think they'll just add a couple more bus/shuttle lines in the Boundary road and Kingsway routes to deal with any increase in density, but I don't see a station being added there.
But that's just me.
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It's feasible- at least on elevated track- Port Moody did a study on it a while back. It just costs more if you don't have an infill location.
There's no bus on Boundary, which would benefit from this.
Also, this area/station location is right next to Swangard Stadium (which is great if you want to host more summer games) and is zoned pretty dense under the Metrotown Plan.
There's a viewcone, but it's also not a very useful viewcone, and I doubt it'd last long if it becomes a massive problem for density here.
The viewcone hasn't become a problem yet, so no one's gone back to reconsider its existence.
If Vancouver updates the Joyce-Collingwood plan to allow for more density on the other side of Boundary (despite the existing towers there, like MOSAIC), this would definitely become a new center (despite Boundary being a bit of a stroad.)
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