Millennium Line - Evergreen Extension | Completed

[officedweller]

Kenneth Chan at VancityBuzz has posted a bunch of photos here:

http://www.vancitybuzz.com/2015/12/skytrain-evergreen-line-photos/

[jsbertram]

Originally Posted by TransitFreak

If u look at the track work it appears there will be dedicated platforms (4) and four separate rails a I.e. No trains sharing a platform. I do not see any switches after the station and it curves right away to Lincoln. I think what you will see is the entrance be the midpoint of the overall station - the end of the current station butting against the front of the future station. What this would suggest is either a shuttle train concept from Coquitlam to Poco or two platforms for vcc bound trains.

Its been a while since I've seen the Delcan drawings, but I recall seeing three platforms at Coquitlam station

a) a North outside platform for the inbound track to Lougheed from Lafarge;

b) a middle wedge-shaped platform between the outbound track to Lafarge and the future inbound track to Lougheed from Mission;

c) a South outside platform for the future outbound track to Mission.

With the Maple Ridge & Mission extension left unbuilt for now, the unused tracks will likely be used for storing maintenance equipment, as is sometimes done using the 3rd track at Stadium station.


When the future extension to Maple Ridge & Mission is built the existing northwards tracks to Lafarge will likely be used as a 'short turn' spur, and the new eastwards tracks will become the mainline Evergreen extension.

In the future this station will have two different inbound platforms (to Lougheed) and outbound platforms (to Mission or to Lafarge), so it will be useful for riders to know when the next train arrives, what platform it uses, and if they have enough time to get to the train before it leaves.

It also means that only the Mission to Lafarge change of trains can be a walk across the wedge-shaped platform. All other train changes means a transfer down through the mezzanine and up to a different platform.

[officedweller]

Yeah, that's what we figure (2 separate platforms to Lougheed).
It was discussed in the thread quite a while back.

[finalcoolman]

Originally Posted by jsbertram

Its been a while since I've seen the Delcan drawings, but I recall seeing three platforms at Coquitlam station

a) a North outside platform for the inbound track to Lougheed from Lafarge;

b) a middle wedge-shaped platform between the outbound track to Lafarge and the future inbound track to Lougheed from Mission;

c) a South outside platform for the future outbound track to Mission.

With the Maple Ridge & Mission extension left unbuilt for now, the unused tracks will likely be used for storing maintenance equipment, as is sometimes done using the 3rd track at Stadium station.


When the future extension to Maple Ridge & Mission is built the existing northwards tracks to Lafarge will likely be used as a 'short turn' spur, and the new eastwards tracks will become the mainline Evergreen extension.

In the future this station will have two different inbound platforms (to Lougheed) and outbound platforms (to Mission or to Lafarge), so it will be useful for riders to know when the next train arrives, what platform it uses, and if they have enough time to get to the train before it leaves.

It also means that only the Mission to Lafarge change of trains can be a walk across the wedge-shaped platform. All other train changes means a transfer down through the mezzanine and up to a different platform.

Mission??? And also, I don't think there will be much actual track laid down on that spur, so I do not think it will be possible to store anything on it. Think the Lougheed third platform, where they never laid down any actual track until now, even though it would have been very handy to have been ble to use that third platform for train storage over the past decade or so.

[SOSS]

I'm still a bit cheesed by the spur. It could have been completely avoided if the Evergreen line took an original plan path through Port Moody along Guilford then swerving south at Pinetree to Coquitlam Centre. Getting out to PoCo would just be an extension instead of yet another spur. Damn nimby's.

[officedweller]

Yeah, there's an elementary school along Guildford and parents and residents didn't want the route there - but a loop makes way more sense than a fork.

[Large Cat]

Originally Posted by SOSS

I'm still a bit cheesed by the spur. It could have been completely avoided if the Evergreen line took an original plan path through Port Moody along Guilford then swerving south at Pinetree to Coquitlam Centre. Getting out to PoCo would just be an extension instead of yet another spur. Damn nimby's.

Damn, I agree with you. Crazy thinking people...you can't make Guildford Way MORE unsafe or inhospitable by adding a Skytrain line. Complete idiots. They'll probably complain about having to transfer to get to Poco, even though they'll never ride it anyway.

[SOSS]

Originally Posted by Large Cat

Damn, I agree with you. Crazy thinking people...you can't make Guildford Way MORE unsafe or inhospitable by adding a Skytrain line. Complete idiots. They'll probably complain about having to transfer to get to Poco, even though they'll never ride it anyway.

To give into the NIMBYs they should have built the line there and just not connected the community with any stations. It really is too bad - I can't see a spur being built to PoCo in the next couple decades since there is far more involved with building a spur then an extension.

[xd_1771]

^ That opposition went back to when the Evergreen Line was an LRT proposal then, since that proposal went down Barnet. Though on-street trams will definitely pose a lot more of a potential danger to children than an elevated SkyTrain line.

[SOSS]

^ That explains it.

[wali]

^ Regarding the original Guildford route, I remember being solicited to sign the petition against it, but then the official explanation for the current route was that the Guildford-Pinetree angle is too sharp for the trains.

I think the current setting is not a bad idea. The tracks can be extended both eastbound to Poco AND northbound to Westwood Plateau and Burke Mountain. Years ago I wrote in a suggestion calling for a new terminus at David Ave just before Pipeline Rd; there are ample parking for Westwood Plateau park-n-riders. And then in another 20 years they could build it all the way to Burke Mtn maybe? Burke will be a major community by then.

[jsbertram]

3 days without anyone posting?

I guess there's nothing more to worry about now that the TBM has finished the tunnel.

[officedweller]

Evergreen Facebook shows some shrubs and trees planted in Port Moody...

[SOSS]

Yup, I can confirm the soft scaping has been going in along Clarke between Moody and Queens. Nothing special. A mix of both deciduous trees and evergreens.

[dothediu]

Anyone notice the canada line style signs on Evergreen line not matching the old signs?

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[GeeCee]

Originally Posted by dothediu

Anyone notice the canada line style signs on Evergreen line not matching the old signs?

There's a RFP out there to replace to wayfinding signs on Expo/Millennium Lines. Don't know of the current status, but I imagine that they will look consistent once that project is complete.

[Sheba]

If it's possible and they have any sense (which is generally debatable) they'll do the replacement in phases.

Initially replace the Millennium Line signs to match up with the Canada Line style signs. Then swap out the Expo Line signs (some of which are god awful) with the Millennium Line signs for a couple years before upgrading them to the Canada Line style signs. I'm pretty sure upgrade is the right word 'cause the newer signs don't use the same backend / software as the old ones, so it's not as easy as just swapping out the signs.

Bonus that Bateman can't point at it and yell 'waste' if they do it in phases and reuse newer signs (although I'm sure he'll still find something to complain about).

[The_Henry_Man]

Originally Posted by dothediu

Anyone notice the canada line style signs on Evergreen line not matching the old signs?

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Don't know if any of you noticed, but looks like the LED train time arrival screens on the new Lougheed Station platform are the same as the ones on the Canada Line?

[trofirhen]

et maintenant? ...............

[Sheba]

Over on the Buzzer Blog: "Evergreen is an extension of the Millennium Line."