The next GVRD rapid transit line?

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Originally Posted by ninjakafi_81

All that's being discussed on here reminds me of what I had on my transit fantasy map.

The Red Line goes along 41st Avenue from UBC to Joyce Station, pretty much mimicking the current R4. From there I sent it across Boundary Road to Burnaby Hospital and down to Willingdon Avenue to connect with BCIT. It then goes up Willingdon Avenue to Hastings Street where it would terminate at around Kootenay Loop / PNE during off peak hours. During peak hours trains would continue down Hastings Street to a Downtown.

The green line is the new North Shore Line I envisioned. Instead of what is currently planned by the government, I decided to just add all the concepts together to create a loop line. This way you have a new E/W line on the North Shore and along Hastings Street in Vancouver. During peak hours, Red Line trains would be doing through service along this line. Because of this, the new station in Downtown would be built with 3 platforms. 1 WB platform and 2 EB platforms sharing an Island platform.

Lastly the Purple Line is to provide a relief to the Expo Line when the time comes. Starting from Waterfront Station it'll go down Main Street then shoot down Kingsway to where it'll terminate in the South Gate area.

That bit east of Boundary would be the hard part. There's no obvious cut-through there. It could go up Boundary until Still Creek maybe, or you knock down the school and some houses. I've looked at it a lot, and I just don't know how you'd easily extend past Boundary without a tonne of problems.

49th, you cut through a corner of Central Park and run up Willingdon, connecting Metrotown and Brentwood, much easier if initially less attractive than 41st.

Someone else said it'd need to connect to existing lines somewhere for train stock and such. Whether it's 41 or 49, connecting as a sort of extension of the Millennium Line in UBC makes sense. Millennium Line turns south, loops back as a nominally-different line going east.


As an aside, for that Hastings and North Shore bit, my fantasy always had the Willingdon line crossing by a bridge by the refinery, and a separate Hastings Line going west and repurposing the Lion's Gate as a SkyTrain bridge. It'd never happen, taking away a car crossing like that though.