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Originally Posted by fredinno
Is there a way that Lonsdale could become a '3rd downtown', cutting down dependency on the CBD (and thus transportation needs?)
It seems only logical to try to cut down the # of trans-inlet trips as much as possible(and transportation in general, considering the geography and NIMBYism), though Lonsdale is already partially built up with condos.
It would probably also suck out a lot of office-building energy out of the other downtowns.
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More or less what the City of North Van's going for right now (though the District doesn't seem to be on board). The only bottleneck is their lack of transportation infrastructure.
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Originally Posted by fredinno
TBH, the vast majority of trips from the North Shore end in the CBD.
The Lonsdale Line route take 4.25min from Waterfront to Commerical-Hastings, then 2.3 min across the inlet, plus transfers to the Hastings Line (say, 1 min avg wait). However, that's still way better than the Seabus time of 10-12 minutes crossing+ up to 15 min wait times.
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Jollyburger seems to be under the impression that transit riders are currently out of the way of road users at Waterfront, but with a SkyTrain they'd be clogging up Burrard-Georgia-Granville like they do at Broadway-Cambie. Since most of those are transferring to the 99, I'm pretty sure that's not the case.
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