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Originally Posted by FarmerHaight
One thing to consider is Metrotown, despite being centered around Kingsway, is fairly deep. That is, a station for the Willingdon line on Central Avenue will not serve residents living in the towers on Hazel Street, or even in the new Concord development that well.
I know the Metrotown plan essentially cuts off at Grange and everything north of that is just SFH. But is it really that hard to imagine in 50 or 100 years that Willingdon from Imperial to Deer lake could be lined with at least mid-rise, if not high-rise buildings? That's why I think a provision should be made for a future infill station somewhere between Grange and Bond. That would leave about 800 metres between that station and the Central and Deer Lake stations.
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Maybe. I'm not really ever against infill stations unless it's not really feasible. Note also though that an infill station would be quite deep, as Willingdon starts to go uphill after Deer Lake all the way up to Kingsway.
Combine that with the very low demand there, and it's just not a very good deal.
There are far more station locations on the existing lines with higher priority, so I have no idea when an infill station would ever be built.
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Originally Posted by chowhou
Even in the worst flooding, Gilmore and Henning usually stays just above the high water mark.
See 2017:
https://globalnews.ca/video/3812723/glimore-flooding-in-burnaby
If I recall correctly, Gilmore Place had a proposed integration with the mezzanine level of Gilmore Station. I think that got nixed but if it's possible in the future that would alleviate that issue. |
Note on the other hand that Gilmore Station is freaking
tiny.
It's one of the most minimalistic stations on the Millennium (like Lake City Way.)
If you want to make it a transfer station, that's a lot of work you have to do.
Brentwood is already somewhat overbuilt as-is in comparison, so it'd be much easier to make it a transfer station.
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