Burrard Inlet Rapid Transit - Park Royal-Metrotown via 2nd Narrows | BRT/RRT?

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Originally Posted by Migrant_Coconut

Still ahead of Scott Road and Maple Ridge, and there's a 99.999% chance Future thinks those ones shouldn't go ahead either.

So we just have KGB/104th, PoCo, Hastings, Willingdon, and 41st. (Disagree about Scott Road, but it's not on the Transport 2050 plans)
That's what- 45km of SkyTrain tracks?

It'll be a while.

No, because an extra 2-4 lanes plus a bridge plus upgrades to Cassiar for the same price as a SkyTrain A) skips almost all the places people want to get to, B) still isn't enough capacity to get everybody on and off the North Shore and C) does nothing to address trips inside the North Shore itself; if anything, NS trains are threatening the highway.

The MoT is not responsible for transit expansions, that's TransLink.

Marine Drive outside of CNV is ~1km away on average from Upper Levels.
For comparison, Line 4 Sheppard is avg. ~500m from 401.

There's going to be a huge number of people who just prefer to drive on a line with already weak ridership.



Upper Levels is also used for short-range travel in NS as well.
This is why NS is (and should) expand the east-west arterial road network.

Originally Posted by madog222

I really don't see a new road & rail bridge happening, well not without a change in provincial government at least. None of the local municipalities seem to want increased car capacity (they want transit) and replacing like for like car capacity when the bridge still has decades left doesn't make much sense.


https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/local...nt%20to,in%20it%2C%E2%80%9D%20she%20said.

Well, no Highway projects are going through until BC United comes back in power.
After GMB, NS is the most consistently congested highway corridor in Metro Vancouver.


I would expect them to pursue this next.
I doubt the NS would prevent the Province from doing this like New West did with NFPR, not when Upper Levels is so important to the region.