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Originally Posted by Migrant_Coconut
Wasn't it the other way around? IIRC it was planned as surface rail, but then Burnaby wanted so many overpasses that planners just made it one big overpass instead.
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No, the provincial NDP proposed surface rail in the early 70s and Metro Vancouver was interested but they lost to the SoCreds in the 1975 election and they killed the idea of rapid transit completely. Eventually by 1980 the SoCreds realised Vancouver needed rapid transit but they were deadset on Skytrain technology. Skytrain isn't just "surface rail with a lot of overpasses", it requires complete grade separation from the early planning stages so the idea it was originally surface rail with a lot of overpasses doesn't make sense.
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