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Originally Posted by Metro-One
You don’t like the list??
I need official heights first!
Happy to see the Boot itself being retained. Would hate to lose that tower.
Also isn’t there a “ghost” station there? Could that actually be done now with so much development in that area? Or was that just a preliminary plan long ago and the guideway was never actually built for such an addition?
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No, actually I love your list.
I was just poking some fun at what people tend to fixate on when project proposals and information like this tends to be released.
In the grand scheme of things, if there was anything there to be fixated about, at least your list serves a useful and informative purpose.
I believe there once was a notion of having a interregnum station between Patterson and Joyce Collingwood, but for the longest time there simply hasn't been the density and foot traffic in that area to justify having such a station there.
Most of the potential foot traffic would be cannibalized by Patterson and Joyce-Collingwood and Patterson (whose own traffic is likewise cannibalized by Metrotown's much bigger Transit hub station), anyway.
I guess the argument could be made that the combination of this development bringing 2,500 homes with the next door residential complex along with the lowrise homes north of Kingsway and the Park, would eventually give the sort of numbers that could justify it, but I don't know the logistics and feasibility of adding a station to an already existing line and in between two stations - as opposed to at the end of a terminus station as an extension - and whether it would even be financially viable to do so.
I could see Transllink and the cities instead pushing for a bus transfer loop instead - but again,......there's already a transfer loop at Joyce Collingwood and a major loop and hub at Metrotown just a couple of stops away.
I think they'll just add a couple more bus/shuttle lines in the Boundary road and Kingsway routes to deal with any increase in density, but I don't see a station being added there.
But that's just me.
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