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Originally Posted by Changing City
No it's the same typo you've been repeating for weeks.
The report says a future station could be considered once the golf course is available for the Musqueam to develop it. At the moment that's 2083, so you needn't worry about it. If there was a plan for a Sasamat or Blanca station those would be mentioned. They're not.
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They would have to put in a flat and straight section for the infill station anyways (no matter when it's built eventually), so you may as well start planning now to start collecting CACs for the station today instead of leaving it to a 'promise' that the station will be built like on 33rd and 57th Ave, or 2083 for the Golf Course, for a station to be built at double the cost it would be if it was just built with the rest of the line.
Most of the Sasamat catchment is the West Point Grey Village, not the Golf Course lands, so you could still generate plenty of CACs for the station even without redeveloping the golf course lands.
Blanca... would probably require redeveloping the Golf Course.
And the tunnel portal is supposed to be at Blanca, so you'd have a station within a trench (like the Southlands Station.)
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Originally Posted by madog222
As of the most recent public information stations are proposed for Macdonald, Alma, Jericho, and UBC, with a potential future station at the University Golf Club. Jericho and Sasamat locations were on different potential alignments, having both was never in the cards.
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I've noted before that that seems to be a misunderstanding, and the Jericho option also has Sasamat/Blanca as an option, rather than the station being directly in the middle of the Golf club.
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Originally Posted by Migrant_Coconut
The new intended alignment is Alma, Jericho, possibly Blanca. It was one or the other, so if Jericho's been chosen, then Sasamat (there's a few Somersets, but no Samasat, in Vancouver) has been taken out of consideration.
Whenever I went to PG Village I was the only student there, so YMMV. That same article also blames property taxes, a stagnant local population and residents who don’t know the area (or prefer to go elsewhere in their downtime).
Google Maps is an estimate, not hard data. And it rounds upward for walking – according to it, I shouldn’t be able to reach the Inukshuk in less than half an hour, which is bull.
The hill’s only a problem if you walk straight up it in the southwest direction; go west or south at an angle, and it’s no worse than Burrard. Seniors and kids may or may not have problems; most able-bodied adults, absolutely not. |
How many people regularly go from the towers around Edmonds station to Highgate Village? That's an easier walk and roughly the same distance.
That walk may be easier, but it's not going to be much faster.
You have to go uphill an elevation gain of ~55m no matter which direction you're going.
Burrard to the Inukshuk is a ~30m elevation gain.
Just because you're a fast walker, it doesn't mean it's particularly convenient for most people.
Even if you ignore all this, the distance from Jericho to Sasamat is ~800m, which is basically the same as on Broadway's Stations east of Artubus or Patterson to Metrotown.
Blanca hits the 'theoretical' station spacing of 1km, but unless you develop the Golf Course lands, the station catchment area is half-empty, so even though Sasamat is 'walkable' to from Jericho, Sasamat is still probably the better location for the medium-term (both are options, though.)
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