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Originally Posted by fredinno
It's about as far from Westin Bayshore to Burrard Stn as it is from English Bay to Westin Bayshore. You'd have to have min. 2 Skytrain lines to get everything via Skytrain.
I actually support a West End Skytrain, but it's already hard to justify $800M on a 2km line, let alone $800Mx2 regardless of what is at the other end. https://1drv.ms/x/s!AphyHYpEjmp-gpprRUpE9R7A0uJG1Q?e=JUer5a
It's again a last mile problem, so it may be justifiable to go with a slower solution here until the West End is dense enough that BRT/LRT is hitting capacity.
I do believe I said Tram-Train in the previous post you're referring to. Obvious problem with faster LRT is that it'd be less like the 'idyllic' LRT that seems to be pitched right now and more like a normal freight railway, with the ROW closed off to mitigate the # of deaths.
Maybe by the time we get to building the Arbutus Project, the NIMBYs won't be as aggressive. Though at that point, we might want to spend an extra billion and go Skytrain and wider ped/bike spaces instead.
Thing is, the same people who want LRT in Vancouver are generally the same people who want LRT en lieu of Skytrain. |
With a station at, let's say, Denman and Robson, people at both locations could just go to it instead of Burrard. But yes, this hypothetical Robson Line would have to be part of some other, more important SkyTrain project (Hastings?); it doesn't have a chance in hell of being built on its own.
I'd once again caution against underbuilding, especially downtown. If BRT/LRT is already insufficient for Central Broadway, then that applies even more so to the West End.
Eh, Arbutus would adhere closer to the "tram" part of that term. Modern Vancouver doesn't have a very S-Bahn friendly layout, and the "train" part can't properly kick in until Marine. That said, city planning teams have suggesting road closures and a hedge/fence-separated ROW, so the final product could end up anywhere between ION and Eglinton-Crosstown.
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