Vancouver's Ideal Transit System - CLC12 Capstone Project 

Now that I've started posting full-effort videos on this channel, I'm beginning to wonder whether or not I should take down this video. To be clear, I do really like this video and am quite proud of it, but it certain isn't at the same standard as the other two videos I have out currently. This video was just a high school project, nothing more really. I didn't fully research the subject, and thus, am lacking any mention of the new 10-year plan or Transport 2050. One last thing that bugs me about this video is the fact that I use a lot of content that is not my own. A lot of the SkyTrain and Bus footage was just taken off the internet without credit and I would much rather take my own shots. If I do end up taking down this video, rest assured that I'll eventually cover the topics again in the future with my typical style. Let me know what you think of this and whether or not this video should stay up. Thanks!

Fantastic video!

DO NOT DELETE THIS VIDEO. It's an excellent video that should be compulsory, for "city planners" in Vancouver and Toronto, to watch. One phrase that I like is "why implement the new line?, it's because it worked in the past". Yes we had electric cars (streetcars) which were dismantled by city politics interests in making money not to serve citizens.

Thank you for finally including the Tsawwassen terminal! Victoria Residents hate taking our cars to Vancouver (and paying $250). I would love a sky train, but a tram will do!

I made an extensive video on a similar topic years back and we largely have very similar ideas, indeed! I hope they become a reality one day. Great video!

omg just finding your channel now!! Great video, excited to see what you make next!

Awesome CLC 12 project!!!!

Great video explaining the TransLink system! Hope you get your R1 expansion to White Rock soon!

Keep up the consistency🔥🔥 youll go far

Well done young fella keep up the good work!

Great Stuff love the confidence!

You have such a great energy! You should consider making more videos about urban planning in the future!

Nice work.

I agree with the Canada line extension. It would generally be more convenient for people coming from downtown or the airport. Great video!

Awesome video! Seeing the overlap between the tram and expo line was news to me too. As a former SFU alumni working at SkyTrain, there are a lot of plans currently in place and work done by capital project planners to project future ridership. New maintenance bays being built to serve these expansion projects and MK V trains to start rolling out this year which holds more capacity too! Interesting take on introducing trams into our network which is definitely less upfront cost but work require different infrastructure to maintain and service.

As someone from Victoria, Vancouvers transit system is already incredible in comparison.

this is such a good capstone omg

Top 10 Capstones of all time fr

This is amazing

I’m sad I found this nearly 2 weeks later. This is so good!

Great video! And white rock is very underserved for something as developed as it is. I live within eye shot of it across the border and learning how that whole area isn’t linked via rapid transit is widl

nice vid 👍

Great video. I think the only thing that I would add, is some kind of transit to the warehouse districts in the southern park of Richmond, or towards Tilbury Park in Delta. Transit to Tilbury Park in particular is poor, and it is less than ideal in the Steveston area before you cross over into Delta. A Canada Line stop at Steveston would be a huge upgrade for the warehouse workers in that area, even if it is still a 10 minute walk to get to work. At least once you get off of work, you'd have a much more reliable way to get home. Tilbury Park, transit sucks even at the best of times, but it's basically non-existent at night. There are plenty of warehouses running 24/7 in Steveston and Tilbury, I've worked at a few of them. Perhaps a BRT route that would run from a theoretical Steveston Canada Line station, through Tilbury Park, and connecting to one of the Surrey Expo Line stations, or the proposed LRT line, would provide a fast, frequent, and reliable way to get to work for warehouse workers in that area. Even though I do have a vehicle, for a morning shift, traffic in and around the Massey Tunnel is often terrible, so a reliable transit connection would probably have me taking transit, instead of driving. And having any night time transit connection to Tilbury would open up job opportunities for those who currently don't have particularly good options at the moment.

Translink needs to hire you!

Make Vancouver railed again

I personally think Surrey dodged a bullet by not putting in light rail. It's slow, expensive, and doesn't move a lot of people. Vancouver is better off converting proven rapidbus lines into grade separated Skytrain lines, starting with a North Shore line to Metrotown through Brentwood and continuing on down 41st Ave to UBC. Next would be a line down Hastings from the new line serving the PNE and ending in the West End.

If your streetcar plan includes the Arbutus greenway you might find a lot of local opposition. Since it was converted to a cycle/pedestrian pathway it's become very popular and I'd expect a lot of people wouldn't want to lose that.

Great video. A few suggestions: rather than the proposed arbutus going to steveston and extending the Canada line to Delta (requiring significant back tracking and reducing top speeds), I'd suggest extending the Canada line to steveston (via Westminster highway and railway ave) and the arbutus line to Delta (via garden city, Williams rd and then highway 99 and 17). I'd also suggest making the arbutus line full skytrain (the Provincial TOD policies mean that lack of density isn't a justification for not providing the speed and reliability that only skytrain provides). A final quibble, but more stations in Tsawwassen would be good. Especially Salish Sea drive and tsawwasen drive, connecting the Tsawwassen First Nation to rapid transit and furthering reconciliation. Finally, I'd suggest a spur line to Tsawwassen town centre with an alignment of 56st, with stations at (roughly) 16th avenue and 12th avenue.

I used to be on the transportation committee in MR. We also struggle with access to the rest of Metro Vancouver, even with the new rapid line. Another member of the committee and I were talking about plans for getting a passenger ferry route going up and down the Fraser again. Not only would it be utilizing easily navigable water ways, but bypassing road traffic all together

Map Men in Vancouver?!

Cool video - I'd like to hear more about why you support LRT vs elevated or tunnelled. LRT is cheaper, yes, but in cities like Calgary and Edmonton they cause accidents and traffic delays.

It's wonderful to see you making content covering the place we both call home. Keep up the great work! By the way, what bass do you have in the background there? Just curious as I play too

I too want to become a transit planner, one of my big worries is that the millennium line will be extended to ubc via 10th and not 8th/university blvd/wesbrook mall, which would cut off an extension along 41st to replace the r4

You left out Pitt Meadows and Maple Ridge! When the evergreen extension was built they actually put in a switch before Coquitlam Central so that the skytrain could be extended out to Ridge. The Pitt River Bridge was also built and designed to accommodate a future skytrain expansion👍🏻

I like the idea of bringing the streetcars back for the downtown area but I really don't like the long suburban extension. Streetcars aren't particularly fast- when running on or next to a road they can't go faster than the road that they're next to. The reason why the Skytrain lines are so popular and effective is that they're very fast- they average a high enough speed to be competitive with, or be even faster than driving. A tram wouldn't have the same speed advantages due to the proximity to the street and the number of crossings (it averages half of the speed of the Expo line) and would therefore be much less competitive than driving. This means that trams provide a local transit service rather than regional transit. I also think the WCE deserves more respect, especially for connecting the areas of the fraser valley.

Fantastic video bro. At least Vancouver is far ahead of Winnipeg. Winnipeg should add more commuter rail and expand to LRT

I strongly believe we should be linking Horseshoe Bay Terminal (possibly like a northernmost terminus) as well as Tsawwassen Terminal to Greater Vancouver also.

could you do a short video about your thoughts on the demolition of the georgia viaduct?

Very cool video! btw, what software do you use to draw the lines on the map?

Great ideas man. Those big people living in mansions around false creek and kits would pay pretty penny to not have trains run next to them

Translink should take a page out of Metrolinx / GO Transit's book. Ther are currently turning Toronto's GO Train commuter rail lines into a fast, frequent, electric regional rail system with two way, all day, 5-15 minute service on most lines.

Sorry, you'll never be able to sell me on the idea of light rail in Surrey unless it ran on a corridor similar to Arbutus.

better than my capstone lmfao

Cool video, what camera do you use?

Would be even better if we can have a regional railway system and a better connection across the burrad inlet

Hello, I see now your video. I’m not from Vancouver so, actually I don’t know how is the city and the financial situation standing. However in your plans, I think, you are missing the fact that transport infrastructure costs a lot. That’s means that it has to get a lot of political support across the parties, as the party (or leaders) who finance and endures the negative effects of the building sites is not the one benefitting of its opening. Looking from a money point of view (at west European prices) we are talking values close to 15M€/km per double tram tracks and 1,5M€ per vehicle. In this sense I would find useful first to map all the dismissed infrastructure and than try to add individual the minimum amount of track required to reach some key destinations, and step by step expanding and joining routes.

I liked your vid but I still think it’s incomplete. I think think there’s needs to another line perhaps starting at Metrotown going through Richmond close to knight street bridge past the tunnel to north delta/ Surrey. It makes no sense for commuters to have to always go through waterfront station to get to other parts of metro Vancouver. We also need HSR honestly, wear coat train should be changed to that from mission and we also need hsr connecting Langley centres new train station to Abbotsford and chilliwack. My dream project would be the train I suggested for Burnaby Richmond north delta to actually extend to north Vancouver and west Vancouver and ideally one day we get that to Squamish and whistler too. Then we will have world class transit. This all could be done if we weren’t sending every god forsaken dollar to shithole Toronto federally

make sure that one UBC professor doesn’t see this

A desire named "streetcar"

With all due respect, the trouble with the Arbutus corridor is that most of the density and demand is to the east of Canada Line, not the west. There’s a lot to learn from the BCER but demands have drastically changed.

They really need to get ( something) out to at least Abbotsford. As someone who has to drive everywhere for work, seeing a better public transit that would take ( hell 20% off the road), would help out a lot. Then on weekends if i want to head into Vancouver for a show, i can use Public Transit the whole way. This is where all the carbon tax and such should go and not general coffers

I was mentally yelling at you the entire time, "CLOSE THE LOOP!" Traveling from Surrey to Richmond is essentially a big U-turn and it starts to feel so ridiculous taking it when the Surrey expo stations and the Richmond canada line stations are essentially running parallel to each other and crying out desperately for something to properly connect them.

IMO there's a lot of good ideas in this, however I still see one fatal flaw that all plans for our system have. It's still ALL about funneling people from suburb to downtown Vancouver, but we've got many downtown cores that have grown in the suburbs since the original Expo line came into being. No plans address this and the growing need for suburb to suburb travel, which means everyone who commutes those routes has no choice but to do it by single driver car. A Richmond to Surrey connection would go a long way to alleviating that. Along with a redundant east-west skytrain line operating along the south side of Vancouver to New West where it can link with the existing Expo line. Those 2 additions to your plans would go a long way to making the transit system a true alternative to cars rather then a to downtown Vancouver commuter system that it mostly is currently. This would both help give people a real alternative to cars as well as stimulate more suburban jobs growth, helping to further diversify our economy form being so dependent on one big urban centre.

Transit Scott the Woz? 😮

you forgot about willoughby which will have over 100 000 people (greater than the population of maple ridge) soon

West side*

There’s one problem I have with your channel. Lack of subscribers. This channel is too underrated for such a good one run by a passionate Vancouverite transit enthusiast

Great video but you should consider connections between the suburbs cities. Delta has very poor connections between South Surrey and South Delta. Some of the largest new developments in the South Surrey And the tfn lands both these large commercial developments and housing projects have no viable Transit connection between them with transfers required Stevenson Highway and 99, currently atrocious overpass🤮

I really want to watch this video, and I really want to hear what you're saying, but the unnecessary music is driving me crazy.

build a 6 lane freeway from Richmond to West Van down Arbutus and under Stanley Park.

RM transit jr

its because light rail sucks, to answer your question. transit needs to be scalable, not just buildable. foot the cost for the future, don't give us these stupid middle measures that are impossible to improve