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

[Alex Mackinnon]

Originally Posted by jollyburger

Probably the wrong thread to discuss freeways in Vancouver.

Maybe but not entirely. I don't think were getting a new skytrain line to the north shore without a replacement for the Second Narrows Bridge. Road upgrades are pretty much part and parcel to transit unless they go for a tunnel on a weird alignment.

The BRT also has a fair bit of overlap with any highway upgrades.

A highway downtown on the other hand, yep that's a tangent.

[WarrenC12]

It feels like we've talked about combined rail & vehicle bridges in Metro Vancouver for decades, but they never end up happening. I don't think it will with the North Shore either.

[Alex Mackinnon]

Originally Posted by WarrenC12

It feels like we've talked about combined rail & vehicle bridges in Metro Vancouver for decades, but they never end up happening. I don't think it will with the North Shore either.

It's less of a problem for Skytrain than heavy rail. Skytrain can basically follow road grades.

Heavy rail would require much flatter grades.

[jollyburger]

Hiring a director for BRT

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[twoNeurons]

I don't suppose we have any renderings of what BRT would look like down Hastings, do we? I'd love to see them if so, and I think it would also be useful in public consultation to see how the street would improve. Narrower streets for cars slows them down and putting BRT there gives us the opportunity to beautify that street and change it from being a car sewer to something more walkable.