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Originally Posted by Reecemartin
The main difference between the LRT and buses is permanence no matter how you frame it putting rails into the group establishes permanence on a level that it doesn't exist on for buses even with good BRT implementations. This permanence helps draw development and is the reason so many US cities are putting in streetcars, simply as cheap ways to spur development.
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Only in that doesn't matter because we already know rails are not permanent in BC as the original streetcar lines were ripped up and replaced with trolley-buses, and the interurban between Vancouver and New West was ripped up over time once the Skytrain was built, and the Arbutus ROW has had it's rails ripped up, and similar Rail lines have been ripped up in Richmond, and also in Victoria.
My optimistic bet is that either this LRT project gets scrapped due to further meddling by Surrey, and the people responsible for the project just do not give a care any more and walk away from it. Or it gets downgraded to a BRT (probably the 104 segment) due to being unable to acquire the properties, or the First Nations people protest the eminent domain that will be required to widen it.
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