Millennium Line - Evergreen Extension | Completed

[bardak]

Originally Posted by queetz@home

I agree with the mayors. The name, "Evergreen Line", is a brand that needs to remain. It should not be removed just because Translink feels like it.

When Millenium Line came to service, they didn't remove the "Expo Line" on the portions where the two lines overlapped. The "Millenium Line" and "Expo Line" is used to identify which route the trains are traversing up to their final destination.

So it only makes sense that "Evergreen Line" is used for the route that a trainset is using if it were to travel from Douglas / LaFarge to whatever end point it will travel, whether its Lougheed, Commercial, VCC/Clarke or eventually Arbutus (and only up to Arbutus forever ).

If the route of the current Millenium Line, which travels from Waterfront to VCC/Clarke gets shortened up to Lougheed or Production, then so shall it remain that way. There is no point rebranding or rerouting "Millenium Line" to include Douglas / LaFarge, Coquitlam Central and so on as per what Translink is mulling.

So on 2016 (assuming Millenium ends at Production Way), the robot announcer would say this...

Coming from Waterfront:

"Expo line to King George"

"Millenium Line to Production Way"

Coming from Douglas / LaFarge:

"Evergreen Line to VCC / Clarke"

So your solution is to take 11 station that have been on the millenium line for 12 years now and what people have colloquially known the "millenium line" to a new brand that does not have any connection to. If you tell people you live along the Millennium line The vast majority are going to assume that you mean the section from VCC to Columbia. It makes much more sense to rename the Columbia to Loughead/Production way tail as a expo line and the evergreen line which hasn't even been in service to millenium.