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Condon and Vander Zalm don’t want any of them at all. They want cute little villages and toy streetcars, the opposite of "grand." If they’re on your side, maybe it's the wrong side.
Not without rewriting the Broadway Plan, they’re not. ABC is proving to be much more timid than the Stewart council in this regard.
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No, THAT’S the lie. You list the aforementioned town centres as if they’re all along one direct railway just waiting for passenger service...
as opposed to several crooked ones, each monopolized by freight, many completely out of the way, some not even able to accommodate extra stations (Brentwood, New West, Lonsdale, etc are off the table).
Of the remainder, Richmond doesn’t want to go to New West, Ambleside doesn’t want to go to the Northshore Auto Mall or the grain elevator, and Chilliwack definitely doesn’t want to go to Huntingdon or Matsqui. The freight lines were the answer
last century, but now they're just another problem.
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The Langley SkyTrain makes do with an equally narrow strip, and veers off to the sides if necessary - I'm not worried.
And it's an equally dumb idea to spend two highways' worth of funding on a glorified tourist bus pretending to be a commuter train. All the added highway capacity is going to HOVs and buses, which people actually use.
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Then I suppose all of BC should vote on whether we build the UBC extension?
(crickets)
Didn't think so.