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Originally Posted by Aroundtheworld
Ok, here's my crack at it:
A few reasons why I chose this alignment/stations: - It's more direct than the northern option
- It has optional stations that will serve potential development sites. It is likely new development will finance a significant portion of the new line.
- Adequately serves UBC's very large campus with several stations.
- Suitable staging site for a tunnel boring machine. Right now, it is just an empty field.
- Allows for potential long-term loop extension down 41st Avenue.
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I doubt UBC would get more than 1 station. They might do a second for the area below 16th, but I doubt it.
Downtown really only has 5 or 6 unique stations. It would be doubtful that UBC gets 5.
The two spots where I think the line would likely end up are either adjacent to Thunderbird Parkade (shortest route), or on top of the trolley bus loop (basically central to the daytime population). Most likely, that's the terminus. Both alignments are likely to follow 10th, probably elevated from Blanca westwards. I doubt any station would go beyond the East Mall.
The Acadia Station, moved a bit eastwards would make sense to rough in. The MST nations own the golf coarse. They promised they wouldn't redevelop for a while (starting in I think 2009), but who's going to stop them? I got to waste 3 hours of my life sitting through the UBC Alma Mater Society meeting where they voted to support the university giving this away, not that they had any say in the matter. There's another few thousand condos that could be built as TOD there, and it would be far enough from the UBC stations to need it's own.
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