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Originally Posted by Spr0ckets
...- then you could have a legit justification for a skytrain stop grtting built there from a ridership point of view.
But as it stands I think the bigger roadblock might be technical/structural.
They need more of the skytrain line to be as horizontal and level as possible to locate a station at, than seems to be available on that stretch currently - especially with the need to accomodate the much longer Mark V's now.
That would mean having to completely reconstruct major sections of the guidway to make them horizontal and hoping you have enough length on either side to have an acceptable slope for the trains to be able to climb/descend to get to the station and be level.
I'm sure the study they did probably revealed all these issues, and while I won't say it's completely not do-able - the bigger question of how much it will cost you to actually be able to do it, is likely what kills the proposal.
And there's the added consideration that even if they somehow made the numbers work and decided to go ahead and do it, it would mean single-tracking on that section of the line for the better part of probably a few, if not several years as each side gets rebuilt to accomodate the station and the required slopes.
Which would be a major burden to have on the system in general - just a coiuple of stops away from the second-most busiest skytrain line station in the entire network.
I don't think either Translink or the city would ever be comfortable eating that level of disruption for that long.
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The guideway was designed for a station east of Boundary.
See post here quoting a response from TransLink:
https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showpost.php?p=4867430&postcount=40
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