Expo Line - Surrey Langley Extension: Planning & Pre-Construction

[Reecemartin]

I've been to Montreal, the system is indeed good and it's built for more traffic than Skytrain however I wouldn't say that it's actually higher quality (trains don't even have ACand it can't be built in in the future because of the tunnel design). At the rate Vancouvers system is looking to be growing we should still be quite far ahead of Montreal per person in terms of km of rapid transit.

For all the criticism of Surreys LRT I'm somewhat surprised Portland comes up, I like the system and it certainly is quite extensive, but the streetcar service isn't particularly good and Max can be frustratingly slow where it isn't really segregated well in the core.

Chicago's system appears pretty good, but Im pretty sure much like NYC it has seen alot of issues with under investment over the years so I do not think the quality of services is quite like Skytrain.

I think what I was trying to and failed to allude to is that their are a massive number of NA cities we are beating and most US cities have under invested for a long time (clearly changing in LA in particular). Considering the quality of service Skytrain provides and how extensive the network will be once we have a line to Langley and Broadway I still think we have one of the best systems in North America easily (of course it's not going to be as large as LA NYC or 2020's Toronto's systems though)