Canada Line | Completed

[mr.x]

At a length of nearly 19 km, the Canada Line will be an automated rail-based rapid transit service connecting Vancouver with central Richmond and the Vancouver International Airport.

The Canada Line project will consist of:
- An underground tunnel from Waterfront Station in downtown Vancouver going south under Granville Street, Davie Street, False Creek, and Cambie Street to south of 64th Avenue;
- An elevated guideway climbing from south of 64th Avenue across the Fraser River to Bridgeport Station in Richmond, and continuing west to Sea Island and Vancouver International Airport and south to central Richmond along No. 3 Road;
- A park-and-ride facility at the Bridgeport Station and bus exchanges at Bridgeport, Marine Drive and Richmond City Centre Stations; and
- A total of 16 stations along the route: four in Richmond, three on Sea Island and nine in Vancouver.


FUNDING:
Government of Canada: $420 million
Province of British Columbia: $450 million
Translink: $300 million
Vancouver International Airport: $250 million
City of Vancouver: $27 million
InTransitBC (private sector): $700+ million (all construction shortfalls)
TOTAL: approximately $2 billion



InTransitBC will design, build, partially finance, maintain and operate the Canada Line for 35 years. In addition, InTransitBC will assume most construction and operations risks.






New pics at the Canada Line site, originally posted by officedweller:

http://www.canadaline.ca/galleryFront.asp?GalleryID=0

Launching Girder @ Bridgeport Station area:





Pic into the bored tunnel with concrete tunnel liner segments being placed:







For more information, also visit the first Canada Line topic:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=60290
- November 16, 2004 to August 09, 2006; 20,000+ posts



OR visit the official project website:

http://www.canadaline.ca

[The_Henry_Man]

^Or is it 2000+ posts for the first Canada Line Thread....LOL

[mr.x]

Originally Posted by The_Henry_Man

^Or is it 2000+ posts for the first Canada Line Thread....LOL

shhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!! we hit 20,000.

[officedweller]

Back on topic....

A chain link fence is going up on the east side of the Vancouver City Centre excavation site (starting from London Drugs working south). The poles are drilled/buried in the ground, not the temporary ones that sit on "T" shaped bases.

[SSLL]

Lookin good!

[officedweller]

New pics showing how the water pipe supplying QE Reservoir was replaced and supported during tunnel construction beneath the pipe.

http://www.canadaline.ca/gallery.asp?galleryGroup=21&CurrPage=1

[eduardo88]

Does anyone know how far has been bored so far?

[RWin]

$2 billion is a lot. Thats 40 million taxi rides.

[Canadian Mind]

suddently doesn't seem so much after that.

[e909]

Originally Posted by RWin

$2 billion is a lot. Thats 40 million taxi rides.

Assuming a taxi ride costs $50..

[mr.x]

New pictures of Cambie between 59th Avenue and Marine Drive:
























Double Track Pier Segment used to test the truss befor stating segment placement (This is the heavest segment that will be lifted by the truss)

[excel]

Thanks for the pics.

[mr.x]

I wonder how much bigger (or smaller O_O (probably) will the Canada Line platforms be in comparisson to the Pearson International Airport People Mover (which is a sad comparisson):




















and this also begs the question of how exactly would YVR will add the planned future people mover to the terminal buildings?

[crazyjoeda]

^ The Canada Line platforms are going to be quite a bit bigger than that, but unfortunately they will still to short.

BTW is that people mover operating now? I was at Pearson in June and I had to bus from the International Arrivals to the Domestic terminal, which really sucked because it was so slow and took about 15mins.

[rbt]

I was at Pearson in June and I had to bus from the International Arrivals to the Domestic terminal

The People Mover is operating but only between the two permenant terminals. Terminal 2 (US traffic) is on the demolition list next spring and the infield terminal (international traffic -- non-US) is going to wind down operations to be overflow only.

Try again in 8 months and you will be much happier with your experience at Pearson.

[officedweller]

A few new pics at the Canada Line website.

http://www.canadaline.ca/galleryFront.asp?GalleryID=0

Guideway assembly @ Bridgeport.





Building the launcher on Sea Island:

[mr.x]

New Construction Pictures - August 2006



Double Track Pier Segment used to test the truss befor stating segment placement
(This is the heavest segment that will be lifted by the truss)




Assembly of Launching Truss LG2 near Vancouver Airport





Concrete segment placement at Bridgeport









Extending Mitchell Island

[mr.x]

TransLink adding more buses

August 24, 2006 - 7:37 am
By: Treena Wood/Province

LOWER MAINLAND (NEWS1130) - It will be easier to catch a bus around the Lower Mainland by the end of the year. TransLink is adding 200 more buses, the most comprehensive bus service expansion since TransLink came into being in 1999. A late night bus service to SFU is also planned, along with beefed-up service to UBC. It's all in response to a big increase in transit users. Ridership jumped 24% on buses and Skytrain between 2002 and 2005, which is the largest increase in the country.

[twoNeurons]

wonder how they'll pay for it?

[hollywoodnorth]

hey Mr X. it looks like LINK in TO is now open >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LINK_Interterminal_Shuttle