https://skytrain.ubc.ca/about-the-project/
* Despite what's shown here, there will almost certainly be station located on Jericho Lands, as its planning process have revealed.
https://skytrain.ubc.ca/about-the-project/
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The Current Transit System is Falling Short
UBC is one of the region’s busiest transit destinations, with over 1,000 buses per day, most travelling along the congested Broadway corridor. This massive volume of bus traffic is clogging things up, causing long, slow commutes for people who use the Broadway and adjacent corridors and lower productivity for businesses in the area.
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https://skytrain.ubc.ca/why-skytrain/
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$1 in $10 of Metro Vancouver’s GDP
Activity along Broadway accounts for 8-10% of the region’s economic activity
$15.5 billion in direct economic output
Generated by a vibrant business community providing a wide range of goods and services
The Broadway Ecosystem
The Broadway Corridor is uniquely placed within Metro Vancouver’s regional economy – housing the leading academic and research capabilities of UBC, key health and research clusters like the Oak-Cambie Healthcare Precinct and the growing Mount Pleasant technology hub, all with links to the downtown core, Vancouver International Airport, and growing economic centres across the region.
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https://skytrain.ubc.ca/impact-benefits/connecting-the-region/broadway-to-ubc/
Before this thread get's too far into the personal fantasies, and debates about what constitutes the start of construction, I thought it would be good to include some data from one of the stakeholders.
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