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Originally Posted by Migrant_Coconut
Leaving Pacific as-is was never an option. Practically every iteration was set to handle existing levels of vehicle traffic (albeit a couple minutes slower at rush hour), and none of them required tampering with Dunsmuir.
Isn't the actual High Line basically just a path?
The Connection's a placeholder right now. There's currently a consultation for the final product, which even in the renders looks about as wide as NYC's.
No, because then you have the exact same thing as Surrey would've had: an expensive, slightly-bigger bus. About three years' worth of posts ago, there was blueprints for a streetcar median down Pacific, and IIRC the consensus was that even that was a bit iffy. Mixed-traffic just downgrades that branch from a "maybe" to a "maybe minus."
Well, you said Bellevue had Microsoft, and I said yes, but they were already big before MS moved in. I'm not going to cross-reference every tower to see which are offices - town centres do need jobs, but jobs need employees; that cycle doesn't really have a beginning.
Good news, Surrey's packed with older buildings! Sure, central Whalley's going to fill up over the long term, but it's not like 99% of the growth will be condo parks (which seem to be scattered throughout the city right now), and they're definitely not going to match Vancouver's saturation any time soon. The lack of businesses interested in the area seems to come from lack of urbanization/amenities, so more residents and more development should attract more offices. Heck, they've got office towers in the pipeline as we speak.
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Well, yeah, otherwise Georgia would be cut off. That's my point, though, extreme or not. 'Easier' is often not 'better'.
The High Line is somewhat wider than a Vancouver than the Dunsmuir overpass would need to be. (10m). Though that still leaves ~1.75 lanes left to work with. I actually can't find any actual examples of what I'd be looking for. The cost would be enormous, but it would be sort of reminiscent of proposals to turn the Port Mann into an elevated park, at least in terms of width (~21.4m to work with). That's enough to build freaking
restaurants on. I don't even know if there's something like that out there. Most of the ones I can think of got hammered down.
It would have been a faster and bigger bus on rails. It can be BRT too, but the city wants rails... so I assumed rails. LRT/BRT on Surrey was about 1.2-3x faster on average than Best Bus options.
For Broadway, the improvement is similar (Best Bus in this case involves using very-limited stop services to hit the numbers shown, so the comparison is BAU)
For transit services, the Pacific Spur also provides the possibility to connect Skytrain and Artubus to the West End (the Coal Harbour one both doesn't seem like it would be received that well and would cut through Georgia St to get to the West End).
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