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Originally Posted by GMD
That is the big reason why skytrain down King George would have been so much better. Like the Cambie line, it could have absorbed a lot of east-west traffic into a single north-south route.
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I'm not too sure on that. There's a large chunk of industrial land between the two north-south routes in Surrey, the KGB and Scott Road, with few people living in that gap and even fewer east-west bus routes (this goes back to Surrey's incomplete road network but I won't beat a dead horse). Based on napkin math, someone living on the Scott Road corridor would see no time savings if a KGB SkyTrain was built; it would be faster to take the future R6. Perhaps the case is different east of KGB, but there isn't much passenger potential to the west for a KGB SkyTrain.
Scott Road is already well-served by buses, thanks to major service increases in recent years, and we're getting a rapid bus to boot. There are places (e.g. North Shore) that are far more deserving at the present moment for RRT.
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