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Originally Posted by CanSpice
Interestingly enough, the archived page also shows two potential locations for a SkyTrain station in Maillardville. I've heard rumours about this, and heard that Coquitlam didn't want a SkyTrain station there, so it got moved to Braid. I've never seen any actual information about this before! |
That's an awesome discovery!
I cannot imagine why Coquitlam would not want a station there to rejuvenate that neighbourhood. Unless it would have locked-in the eventual "Evergreen" expansion to the SouthEast alignment, along Lougheed all the way to Coquitlam Centre instead of the NorthWest alignment via Burquitlam and Port Moody?
Could there have been Provincial partisan politics at play? Anyone remember? Lou Sekora would have already been gone as Coquitlam mayor by 1997-98 when this was in the final planning stages. Derek Corrigan would have been a outspoken Burnaby councillor for a full decade by that time, but did not become mayor until 2002.
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