I posted this in the Transit Fantasies thread but since this got reactivated I'll put it here too for any possible opinions:
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Originally Posted by allan_kuan
It's been a few months since I did the last proposal, so I'm proposing a new one [for the Burnaby Mountain Gondola]. This is a bit more detailed than before, and the route got changed by popular opinion, but the concept remains the same.
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Note that it's not possible to do a straight line between Lougheed Station and SFU without demolishing the high-rise apartment blocks down at Lougheed Town Centre or moving the lower station outside a convenient transfer walking distance range (then again most SFU students will have to walk long distances anyway to get to the gondola, so that might be a moot point).... and I will severely criticize any plan considering having the gondola end up at Production Way Stn (even if it's cheaper and it's a straight line) because I notice that a lot of people at the moment do have to like take an extra one-station hop from Lougheed towards Production Way simply because there's no SFU buses from Lougheed itself. The situation may "ease" once Millennium converts to Evergreen, but then Surrey students going to Burnaby campus and vice versa will have to do something similar. Both situations ruin the whole point of convenient transfers that's supposed to make transit viable, and it should be avoided and replaced with something like or similar to the plan above.
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I also plan to write a letter or two soon to TransLink and Burnaby pushing for this project to go ahead. Not sure how much that will influence the two though because of the early stage of the project; however during consultations I'll surely try to drive home the point that a station at Lougheed Town Centre is the best way forward from a long-term perspective rather than doing a shortcut at Production Way.
As for branding... let's see. There are already two other prominent brands in the system: SeaBus and SkyTrain. (West Coast Express is also one but let's just consider short names first.) A list of possibilities:
- SkyShuttle
- AirShuttle
- AirTram (favoured atm)
- BMT or BMG (Burnaby Mountain Tram / Gondola)
- BMAT or BMAG (Burnaby Mountain Aerial Tram / Gondola)
Any other suggestions? Of course this is all hypothetical pending the outcome of the business case and consultations.