Millennium Line - Evergreen Extension | Completed

[djmk]

Nice! Great pic!

[dpogue]

Video from this morning at Lougheed showing that not much has visibly changed with regards to the guideway. They have rebar in place for pouring cement for the sides of the inbound guideway.

Whoever was complaining about the ugly concrete columns should be pleased to see them sanding away some of the grime that accumulated in the 14 years between original forming and the recent additions

[officedweller]

Here's a May 25th pic by dpogue of Coquitlam Central Station - you can see Mainer Way overpass on the right:


https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/10593...8664133015026/albums/5912605598382151729

[TransitFreak]

Given the picture from the annual report a few pages back with Production Way being the potential terminus station of the incumbent Millenium line route, one could make the case of right railing the 'Evergreen' line and Millenium line. The current switch configuration would allow the Coquitlam bound train to cross into the outbound (right side) guideway after Lougheed station. It would not interfere with the train from Braid too much as the frequency is expected to diminish for the train from Braid.

The inbound train from Burquitlam would now stay on the inbound (left side) guideway all the way to Lougheed and dwell at the 3rd platform. In essence you have a side platform loading station with a predominantly unloading centre platform for the train from Braid. So now your platform assignmnents would be:

Douglas Lafarge-Lake[====]Production Way/University||VCC-Clark[==]

Anyways, it's an option, it would resolve the whole wrong railing issue...

[officedweller]

But passengers boarding a train @ Lougheed Station (i.e from a bus) destined for Production Way Station (and SFU) wouldn't know whether to wait at the 2nd/middle platform or the 3rd/north platform for the next train.

That was the whole reason for originally consolidating both westbound routes at the same 2nd/middle platform (i.e. if both Evergreen and M-Line were to be through-routed through Lougheed Station).

So arguably, the through routing of M-Line to Production Way Station, reinforces the need for the wrong-railing to get both westbound routes to a common platform.

[nname]

Columns on the east side of Coquitlam Central station, taken on June 5th


The next 3 columns looking from the station toward the bus loop, taken on June 6th. The second column seems so low..


Column near Lincoln Station with extra high paddings

[TransitFreak]

Originally Posted by officedweller

But passengers boarding a train @ Lougheed Station (i.e from a bus) destined for Production Way Station (and SFU) wouldn't know whether to wait at the 2nd/middle platform or the 3rd/north platform for the next train.

That was the whole reason for originally consolidating both westbound routes at the same 2nd/middle platform (i.e. if both Evergreen and M-Line were to be through-routed through Lougheed Station).

So arguably, the through routing of M-Line to Production Way Station, reinforces the need for the wrong-railing to get both westbound routes to a common platform.

True, or with now the through routing, the need for a terminus platform for the millenium line is now not required, so in theory, the 3rd platform can now become westbound, both Braid and Burquitlam fed trains, current inbound would now serve Burquitlam bound trains, and the current outbound will service Braid bound trains, in order to remove wrong railing issue. Switches are currently in place to handle that movement.

[giallo]

This is pretty cool. It looks like local rapper Snak The Ripper filmed part of his video at an Evergreen Line construction site.


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[officedweller]

Originally Posted by TransitFreak

True, or with now the through routing, the need for a terminus platform for the millenium line is now not required, so in theory, the 3rd platform can now become westbound, both Braid and Burquitlam fed trains, current inbound would now serve Burquitlam bound trains, and the current outbound will service Braid bound trains, in order to remove wrong railing issue. Switches are currently in place to handle that movement.

That would work - the only downside being the elimination of any Coquitlam <-> Braid cross platform transfers (one way or the other way).

Remember, from a passenger perspective, wrong railing isn't an "issue" (it's a bit like saying that stacked tunnels are an "issue" because the trains don't drive on the "right" side or that "twisted" transfer stations in some Metros are an "issue" because a platform doesn't have opposite directions for the same line on adjacent tracks).

[nname]

They seems to be building a new down escalator for west entrance of Lougheed Station platform 1/2. The site where the "future escalator" is are hoarded up on both concourse and platform levels.

[officedweller]

Originally Posted by nname

The next 3 columns looking from the station toward the bus loop, taken on June 6th. The second column seems so low..

Do you mean the cage in the background?
That's a cap sitting on the ground - Looks like it'll be placed on top of the column cage to the right.

[dpogue]

Didn't get any photos, but I did pass by Coquitlam Central today and noticed that they had several concrete beams going across the columns for the centre part of the station area.

[nname]

Originally Posted by dpogue

Didn't get any photos, but I did pass by Coquitlam Central today and noticed that they had several concrete beams going across the columns for the centre part of the station area.

Photo taken June 12th...











Not sure what are they doing with the spur..

[adrianroam95]

Wow. Great pics.

[trofirhen]

Wow, this is all coming along faster than I would have imagined! It's digging the tunnel that will take the most time, I think.

[dpogue]

Originally Posted by nname

Not sure what are they doing with the spur..

In the first and second photos you can see rebar to the right of the existing column. My guess is that will be for forming a column for the spur. If I recall, there only were 1 or 2 columns for the spur.

[queetz@home]

Thanks for the pics nname!

I still don't understand the need for a spur since PoCo extension is a pipe dream. By the time the PoCo gets built, if ever, which should be after Broadway to Arbutus and all Surrey LRT lines are built (2030s), whatever tracks they put there would be so rusty, you might as well replace them. Its easier to just jackhammer a side of the guideway that would look pretty in decades, reconfigure the rails and link it when the time comes to extend.

But since its going to be there regardless of how I feel, I think they should try to make it look less of a spur. Perhaps make it part of a platform or something with a food cart or gift shop, add some temporary structure on top to hide it, and so on. The Lougheed Station spur prior to the Evergreen Line contruction has been such a huge pet peeve of mine, just couldn't stand it for over a decade...

[officedweller]

But imagine if they hadn't built the spur at Lougheed and they had to single track the station now just to install the switches for the spur?

That's why they're doing it - to avoid the headache they experienced when they installed the switches for M-Line near SkyBridge - they had to run single track to Surrey to free up one side for construction.

[queetz@home]

Originally Posted by officedweller

But imagine if they hadn't built the spur at Lougheed and they had to single track the station now just to install the switches for the spur?

That's why they're doing it - to avoid the headache they experienced when they installed the switches for M-Line near SkyBridge - they had to run single track to Surrey to free up one side for construction.

But given the sheer amount of *discussion* that has gone throughout the years, and the whining and complaining about how the Lougheed guideways are turning up right now, I think such a headache is worth it for the long term so things will remain....pretty.

[officedweller]

Investigation Report for that shifting guideway segment at Como Lake Road posted here.
It says the section was always intended to be part of a continuous span section, so there were no risers on top of the columns.

http://bobmackin.ca/?p=1798


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From the latest Community Bulletin:


http://www.evergreenline.gov.bc.ca/documents/CommunityUpdates/140610_CommunityUpdate8.pdf