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Originally Posted by jollyburger
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"Behind the fence" means it was an at-grade section. All sections that are not underground are "elevated guideway"
Beside the point I was making. I searched for the most recent vandalism of the trains, not the guideway. Vandals will always break into areas that are not secured, and a simple padlock is not a good enough deterrent for vandals. Heck look up lockpickinglawer and see how quickly nearly every kind of lock can be opened with skill and two metal objects if someone wanted to break in non-destructively.
Anyway the point I was making was that storing the trains on the track overnight increases the potential for vandalism. The underground areas are less likely to be vandalized if only because access to those areas are already more difficult to reach. There is one exception to that, and it's an area that's been used to film television shows under waterfront station. If you've ever worked in the area below Canada Place convention center, you'd know the area I'm talking about, and you can see this area from the Skytrain when it enters waterfront.
If Translink wanted to make use of these areas they would need to do more than just "fence off" the area, they would need intrusion alarms and video surveillance over every meter of the guideway, and it's just impractical to do that on a permanent basis. Realistically you want a enough yard space for the entire fleet, and there is nothing stopping translink from doing what Penn Central did and have air rights so things can be built things over top the yard to make it more secure. We're always crying about lack of affordable housing and lack of parks. So if you design your storage yard correctly with space for building piles/foundations, you can then build a park on top, and then housing towers when there is need of them.
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