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

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Originally Posted by VancouverOfTheFuture

you make it sound like 1 minute faster is worth 2 billion dollars. in what world is that a good use of dollars? 1 minute faster. lol lol lol. not even worth mentioning. that is the difference between stopping at a red light, or hitting the light green. also, what happens when there is an accident on the road? bus drive around it. what happens when there is an accident on train tracks? trains stop until it is cleared. in BC any accident that is deemed to cost more then $10,000 must have a full investigation so vehicles CANT be moved until that is done; many and many hours.

guess what??!?! 10% of the cost of this LRT, you can build dedicated, signal priority bus-lanes akin to what was down No. 3 Road in Richmond before Canada-Line.

you get a dedicated ROW, less money spent, flexibility around accidents, signal priority.

...and with the money saved on not building the L Line, there's the budget for the Expo Line as Skytrain down Fraser Hwy (which seems to be the way the province is leaning for that line).

Originally Posted by GlassCity

The 96 B-Line isn't a case study in good BRT. It could also have dedicated lanes and signal priorities, for significantly less money than LRT, while still travelling at the same speed and providing more than enough capacity for the foreseeable future. Not to mention, it's more temporary and can be more easily upgraded to SkyTrain if it's needed one day.