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Originally Posted by VancouverOfTheFuture
i would think the extension to UBC would be more warranted than the one to langley. i dont see that one having more ridership for awhile. i do think both are needed, i just think the funding to UBC should have come before the funding to langley.
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I don't disagree that both lines are needed - it's just the reasoning I see here that I wonder about. There's a reason a lot of people in the CoV take transit and that's because there's a lot of it and it's very frequent (3 Skytrain lines and most of the bus routes are FTN). Once you leave the CoV a lot of that disappears.
Within the Delta / Surrey / Langley area there's the end of the Expo Line and the vast majority of bus routes are every 30 minutes or less, with a lot less service in the evening and only one night bus into Surrey Central. Is it any wonder why people living there are car dependent?
So the plan is to have an elevated (aka cheaper and faster to build than tunnelled) Skytrain line across Surrey into downtown Langley. Combined with the bus network adjusted to feed into the Skytrain stations this would be a massive improvement - and still be a lot less than the CoV has.
I honestly don't get why people would be arguing against this and it comes across to me as a version of 'I got mine' and screw everywhere else. If we want the region to be more environmentally friendly we should be aiming for the whole region to improve - not just one part of it.