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Originally Posted by CanSpice
Huh. That seems kind of far from the current Cambie & Broadway station. It's about the same as the Vancouver City Centre and Granville stations; they always seem so far apart to me (a half-block on a map but so far when you take actual station walking into account). In my opinion it'd be better to have one larger station that services both lines.
The City of Vancouver owns the building (and presumably land) right next to the current Broadway-City Hall station (456 Broadway) and it's nearly in a state of disrepair (my wife used to work there, they were told not to put any holes in the walls for fear of asbestos). I wonder if they've ever thought of using that space and expanding the station that way?
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Its unlikely there will be a 'common station' where Broadway Skytrain and Cambie Canada Line meet, since they are operated by different legal entities (under the 'translink' umbrella), so a public connecting corridor will have to be used instead.
The new Broadway/Cambie Skytrain station platforms can be located centered on Cambie -Skytrain would run under the Canada Line- so the Crossroads entrance can be connected to a west mezzanine that also has a connecting corridor under the SB lanes of Cambie (the Canada line runs under the NB lanes here) and into the breakout wall of the current Canada line station (which is also partly under the Cambie St NB lanes)
the issue is the platform locations - not the entrances - that determine the walking distance.
I agree its deceptive when you can see the Canada Line entrance when you're standing mid-block on Granville street at the Expo entrance, but the Canada Line platforms are actually under Granville south of Georgia (actually closer to Robson), and the Expo platforms are actually under Dunsmuir & Seymour.
If they were both centered under Granville and Dunsmuir, there might be a simple escalator transfer between the lines from one platform to the other.
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