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Originally Posted by s211
Swing and a miss! Truth be told, it would be part of a multi-modal regional transportation network.
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I assume you mean that it would improve bicycle and pedestrian traffic across McBride, because a tunnel in and of itself does nothing for those modes of transportation.
Here are the issues I have with a cut-and-cover tunnel for the Stormont Connector:
- it would have to be about three times wider than the cut-and-cover tunnel for the Canada Line
- most of the New Westminster section wouldn't require bulldozing any buildings, but a lot of the route through Burnaby would
- it would be expensive as hell, $4-5 billion just for the tunnel
- placarded trucks carrying dangerous goods wouldn't be allowed to use it (just as they're not allowed to use the Massey Tunnel
- it solves a problem that doesn't exist
There's no traffic demand for getting from Surrey to north Burnaby via the Pattullo Bridge. That's what the Port Mann and Highway 1 is for.
And the Stormont Connector would require bulldozing and appropriating a lot of land in Burnaby. Don't forget that
Corrigan was massively against the expansion of Highway 1 -- what would he think about this project?
The idea of the Stormont Connector is just that: an idea. It'll never come to fruition.
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