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Originally Posted by logicbomb
1) The WCE would have to share a very busy track along the Grandview Cut and would need to switchback and share a busy crossing into North Van. It would take 45 min to 1 hour get to North Vancouver alone. Another 3 hrs to Whistler. So around 4 hours when a bus could take 90-120min.
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To be clear, I don't expect
most people would take the train from Downtown to Whistler. Most people are going to take it from the North Shore... jump on a Seabus or something. I'm just thinking instead of having those trains just sit downtown waiting to go back to Mission, we use one to run up the Sea to Sky... and as a solution to... oh we don't have the trains.
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2) CN is going to continue to hold the line between North Vancouver and Whistler. Even in the inevitable outcome where there are no longer customers in Squamish, they may elect to use the line as storage just to strong arm the government into purchasing the ROW.
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3) There's already chatter about the Rocky Mountaineer ceasing the Rainforest to Gold Rush route. It seems like a foregone conclusion that the ROW north of Squamish will be abandoned with a high probability of the ROW being sectioned off and returned to the First Nations group.
I think rail is a long-term solution to the insane congestion around the province but there's zero political will at all levels to inspire any meaningful vision when it comes to a commuter rail network.
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I agree... which is why it's important to maintain or at least consider planning out SOME kind of service along this corridor. Making it a designated transportation corridor that MUST be maintained, so some future cowboy gov't can't just approve its decommission.
It takes long-term thinking and planning. And the more you talk about it, the more it gets embedded into the public's mindset.
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