Posted Dec 22, 2007, 2:25 AM
|
|
Vancouver Moderator
|
|
Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 5,747
|
|
Just to let some of you (if you haven't already) the new Aritculated Buses by NewFlyer are already in operation for the 99 B-Line.
From TransLink:
Quote:
TransLink’s 2008 transportation plan signals more road and transit expansion for Metro Vancouver
The largest bus expansion in 31 years will be the centrepiece of TransLink’s 2008 transportation plan, which will deliver transit service expansion, road improvements and progress on major road and transit projects. Chair Malcolm Brodie said the 2008 program would maintain the momentum of road and transit improvements TransLink has built up during its current Three Year Transportation Strategic Plan, which wraps up at the end of December.
“From 2005 through to the end of this year, TransLink added over 200 buses to the fleet and over half a million annual service hours, resulting in more routes and more frequent service to more parts of the Metro Vancouver region,” he said. Improvements in 2008 include the new 95 B-Line on Hastings Street from downtown Vancouver through Burnaby to Simon Fraser University. There will also be expansion of the ‘Frequent Transit Network’ in the South of Fraser region on Scott Road, the King George Highway, the Fraser Highway and 152nd Street, offering a service at least every 15 minutes, 15 hours a day, every day of the year.
Construction of the Canada Line guideway should be completed by April of 2008, with work then focused on the stations in Richmond, Vancouver and at the airport.
“We have to recognize that increasing transit ridership continues to put pressure on every part of the system in spite of the expansion we’ve introduced,” he said. Transit ridership in 2007 will be over 291 million passenger boardings, up from 275 million recorded in 2005.
Brodie said transit service expansion will continue into 2009. “Our Board has approved the purchase of 336 more buses, 34 more SkyTrain cars and a third SeaBus, all of which will enter service over the next two years,” he said, noting that TransLink’s budget for transit operations in 2008 will be $675 million, up from $506 million in 2005.
In 2008, TransLink will fund $55 million in road improvement or expansion projects and provide municipalities with close to $30 million to operate and maintain the region’s major arterial roads. 2007 marked the completion of the David Avenue Connector in Coquitlam and the 204th Street Overpass in Langley.
In 2008, construction will continue on the $800 million Golden Ears Bridge and its network of connector roads that will open in 2009. There will be further progress on the Fraser Highway improvement project, while design work will conclude in advance of construction of the Coast Meridian Overpass in Port Coquitlam and the Murray-Clarke Connector in Port Moody.
TransLink has allocated $50 million to partner with senior governments on the construction of nine overpasses in Delta, Surrey, Langley City and Langley Township along the 70 kilometre rail corridor to the Roberts Bank Terminal. The total cost of the initiative will be over $300 million and all are expected to be completed in between five and eight years.
TransLink’s $314 million capital program in 2008 will include the approved bus purchases. The budget will also cover $26 million in upgrades to the Broadway and Main Street SkyTrain Stations and a further $12 million to develop the new Maintenance and Transportation Training Centre in Maple Ridge.
The capital program includes $6 million for Metro Vancouver’s cycling network and another $7 million to install video security cameras on 460 buses in 2008.
Chair Brodie commented, “TransLink continues to move forward on all fronts to improve, modernize and expand our road and transit system as well as to offer real travel alternatives to take the pressure off our commutes. 2008 will be a transition year as TransLink prepares a 30 Year Strategy and establishes a rolling Ten Year Plan that will move our transportation network forward.
“As a Board, we’re proud of what TransLink has accomplished in its last Three Year Plan and since it became responsible for Metro Vancouver’s transportation network in 1999. Still, with so much demand still unmet and with the growth and environmental challenges on the way, much will be expected of the organization in years to come,” he said.
|
|
Prev
) reading the following document.
Linear Mode
