Canada Line | Completed

[Overground]

As far as I've read it should be pronounced brig(rhyming with fig) + house. Brig means 'jail'. Of course with English, names are continuously evolved and warped over time so if the name was somehow misconstrued I'm not sure.

Samuel Brighouse, the guy who settled and owned the land at this part of Richmond, was from Yorkshire in England. An audio pronunciation of 'brighouse' from someone in Yorkshire can be found here - http://forvo.com/word/brighouse/

[CBeats]

ha! I thought it would be like "High" or Thigh" but I guess not.

[argon007]

Originally Posted by DKaz

Why is the 410 terminating at Brighouse? Is it no longer going to Railway or 22nd St Station? How do you pronounce Brighouse anyway?

Great shots of Cambie btw!

i think 410 will go between brighouse and 22nd st station, but will reroute as cooney, lansdowne, garden city, cambie... "original road" .... 22nd st. station

but i hope it will terminated at 22 nd st. station and bridgeport station.

[DKaz]

What's going to go on Railway then?

[nname]

Originally Posted by DKaz

What's going to go on Railway then?

410.

[DKaz]

Originally Posted by nname

410.

Ah, I was confused with:

Originally Posted by argon007

i think 410 will go between brighouse and 22nd st station, but will reroute as cooney, lansdowne, garden city, cambie... "original road" .... 22nd st. station

but i hope it will terminated at 22 nd st. station and bridgeport station.

[argon007]

Originally Posted by DKaz

Ah, I was confused with:

maybe they will create a bus route?
i don't know.

[en2]

I recently had the chance to tour the Canada Line operations and maintenance centre plus the Marine Drive station and here are some of the pictures that I took:

[Xerx]

looks nice!

[Mac Write]

Those photos have answered so many questions and created allot more questions. an Open House of the OMC would be killer.

[deasine]

I see Marine Dr STN: Were the "WAY OUT" signs like stickers? =__="

[zivan56]

Thanks for the pics! Wow, that Seltrac system looks ancient...they seem to have done little to modernize it. VLSI is your friend...

[metroXpress]

Thanks for the pics. I don't see any signs with the "Way Out" stickers

[officedweller]

Thanks for the pics. Those little yellow nubbs are all that's preventing the train from rolling off the siding?

[LotusLand]

Looks like one of the Cambie merchants has one the lawsuit against translink. Check out the Vancouver Sun (too busy at work to post link).

I wonder what kind of domino effect this might have?

[GeeCee]

Originally Posted by LotusLand

Looks like one of the Cambie merchants has one the lawsuit against translink. Check out the Vancouver Sun (too busy at work to post link).

I wonder what kind of domino effect this might have?

Ugh, what a bunch of —.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbi...s-cambie-street-canada-line-lawsuit.html

Left my comments on the article

[DKaz]

The floodgates have just been opened. How many more lawsuits can we expect?

[Gordon]

Intransit bc will foot some of the bill. It was them who changed the construction process From abored tunnel to Cut and Cover. One of the requirements of the final bid was that the tunnel be bored through a majority of Vancouver.

[officedweller]

Ouch.
I could see this decision impacting the affordability of the UBC Extension.

InTransitBC's bid always included cut and cover.
It was the theoretical Multiple Account Evaluation / Project Definition Reports that suggested a bored tunnel.
I doubt InTransitBC would be on the hook - maybe for traffic planning or taking longer than previously publicized, but not for the construction method.

See my previous post from February that the Request for Proposals did not require a bored tunnel:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=138204&page=132&highlight=Request+Proposals

There was no construction method specified in the Request for Proposals.

Read the RFP here:
http://www.canadaline.ca/pubLibDocs.asp?ID=4#19

The proposals submitted by the proposers specified what and how they would build to satisfy the project needs.

It was a design, construct, operate, maintain and finance agreement.

That's why there was so much variation in the proposals - it's not the same as a tendering process where the exact specifications are set out to be bid against. The RFP process allows flexibility for design and construction (basic elements are established but not particulars) - and resulting cost advantages or impacts.

Any enginering studies and evaluation studies conducted by government before the RFP process are internal studies for information only -

For example, read the Project Definition Reports, here:
http://www.canadaline.ca/pubLibDocs.asp?ID=5

so that government, etc. can figure out estimates of how much money may be required to build the project (how much do we need from the Feds, Province, etc.), feasability of options and other parameters - those studies are not generated by the successful proposer and each proposer can choose how it wants to fulfill the need.

Ultimately, the projects proposed by each proposer present what is proposed and what the government can choose from. If each of the proposers had proposed monorail, we'd either have a monorail, or nothing at all (as there's no obligation to proceed with a proposal).

[SpongeG]

Originally Posted by clooless

I wonder if Templeton will have those stupid "Out" stickers on the wayfinding.

maybe they were there for the open house only??