Don't worry, I plan on covering it once construction starts. @thegreaterdiscussion has a great video overviewing the current status and history of the project. Highly recommend checking it out!
Only budgeted at $1 billion. At 50,000 rides a day, that's only $55 per ride for the first year! If it has zero operational costs, that's only $5.50 per ride after 10 years! Doesn't seem very cost efficient.
Some of these old rail lines used to go underground , that’s why the sky train was finished so fast you have to line up three maps one of them is the old trolly map that has all the junction points layed on top of a sky train map and a third map but the trolly map shows the major entrances some aren’t there anymore but there is still access to the underground one entrance is below the seabus behind where the fire was but not worth going to some spots down there
We have no problem building super expensive skytrains (not a bad thing) I don’t know why this isn’t already going. The infrastructure is literally already there. Tracks and all. It would be the cheapest and easiest transit option to get going
It’ll never happen. Anything progressive and brave that others have done is getting removed and replaced. The new mayor is neither brave or progressive and not a leader but a mere puppet to developers
the the estimated 50,000 rides daily, that's $50 per ride for the first year. With zero operational costs, it'd be $5 per ride after 10 years. Doesn't seem very financially feasible. So city council should be all for it.
I know it woulda been a buncha work, but a little (animated) map overlay/PIP to go along with your verbal description woulda been really helpful. Nice work on these videos, though!
This is great and all for transit in general but people need to realize through this development that we are losing many affordable homes to be replaced with luxury suits that rarely ever end up actually being affordable Also we will be losing a lot of unique businesses only to be replaced with more generic ones that you see at all these mixed use development sites s bunch of dental offices and pizza shops we have enough of those most end up closing up shop permanently and not relocating prob due to high cost and most will probably see there property taxes skyrocket just like in other places in the region and all the ugly look alike town homes / row homes all these new buildings look the same all so bland with no character
It'll never go through because the rich people that live in these neighborhoods don't want the homeless drug addicts an easy way to get to where they live.
So that's why we had a delay going into Lougheed the other day when I was visiting vancouver. We stayed near Gilmore and rode from Gimore to Comercial and Broadway, Then Expoed to Science world, Then Expoed to Waterfront, took our 5 year old on Seabus, Then Expoed back around to Production way to Mellenium back to Gilmore because we thought that going this way gave our son more time on the train and beat rush hour passengers going out of town.
The future Surrey OMC has been found to be located at 17916 Fraser Highway as someone found the sale and transferred of the land title to the BC Transit Finance Corporation or something like that.
Accidental jab at Toronto with the bus bridge callout lol Scarborough subway isn't opening for another 3 years at least. It's bus bridges all the way til then.
@@eugenetswong I got lucky and had one of the trains that's specifically designed for Amtrak Cascades and it was SUPER nice. The cars are apparently designed to tilt a little bit which made bumps and stuff less of an issue. Best way to travel, especially internationally! Highly recommend!
@@eugenetswong they seem to run deals on it every now and then. Make sure you keep a look out for those! My one way ticket from Vancouver to Seattle was $50 for regular price reference point
It's now been confirmed that the pocket track won't have double switches on both ends as shown in the site drawings. Translinks post was correct (as suspected)
That's really unfortunate. I like the convenience of the double switches. Maybe they did a cost analysis, and it couldn't be justified. Thanks for the update. I'm glad that I scrolled down.
