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Canada’s big cities are massively expanding their transit system, but Vancouver’s plans feel unambitious by comparison – so let’s talk about my dream of a bolder plan.
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27 Comments
START PUSHING FOR A NEW CAR BRIDGE AND HIGHWAY FROM DEEP COVE TO BELCARRA !!!
Best and forward thinking transit system?? Where?? I didn’t realise it could get any worse than Vancouver but I’ve previously only lived in Australian cities. I’m writing this early into the video so let’s see the vision 😊
Life and this planet would be so much better with more train nerds… PROTECT THIS HUMAN AT ALL COSTS!
Get real: Medellin in Colombia has a better public transit system than Vancouver. Vancouver’s is already overcrowded, trains on Sunday start too late and the earliest trains to Surrey are sardine packed. Vancouver’s political class is terribly shorted sighted. Stations are constantly being rebuilt: first the BC United Scrooge Party’s witch and gremlin’s toll gates that don’t work, secondly for the addition of toilets that should been included from the beginning, and then further building for more train cars which will be inadequate by the time they’re built, etc. The problem is the political appointees who run the system rely on cars and never regularly use the system. And I’ve just started about the stupidity that is the root cause of the problem.
I have very much enjoyed your spectacular visions for future transit in Vancouver! This is home and always has been! I do love it here and I do leave the car at home and regularly use transit or occasionally my bicycle. Living in Kits does make it easy to hop on transit and have me Downtown very quickly and if I have a work meeting I walk or hop on a bus or the Sky Train to get me where I need to go but the transit system needs huge expansion. Usually it's efficient and quick! I am in Toronto quite frequently and I am shocked at the delays and lack of vision for transit. I have a huge appreciation for the transit we have but I absolutely agree that it needs to be far more bold and specific! My goodness it has been a long time since I have been on the Sea Bus and sometimes I think it's under appreciated but as far as I know use is high? My niece is out in Langley and she'd love to be able to take the Sky Train in all the way to Downtown Vancouver. I hope this is eventually possible! I think your thoughts on what Vancouver should be planning for transit are so well analyzed. It struck me that I rarely think about issues like flooding and the implications for transit. Thank you for being so comprehensive. I need to read a lot more and study these serious issues. I am excited at your terrific outlook on the future of Vancouver transit and the choices the city should make. Thanks for the amazing video!! 🙂
What about the Fraser line going to North Vancouver from Waterfront in phase 5 to replace the slow polluting ferry.
My hope is still we will get a skytrain out across the fraser river to ladner/tsawwassen ferries.
The city should just focus of building much more housing. Having to spend the majority of your money on rent really lowers standard of living. Nobody rides the trains anyways
I don’t think housing prices in Canada will ever come down, we will in city with property prices similar to New York City but we earn 3 times lower average salary than New York City
Sounds great, let's pretend we'll start by 2075 but really break ground in 2138 lol.
Excellent content, thank you!
And a train to Whistler 🙂
Someone needs to hire you. I don’t agree with everything here, but you have some great ideas
Where are you putting the yards and infra for the the Inlet line?
South Marine Drive definitely needs a light rail connecting all the new developments, and there's plenty of room on the Kent Avenue corridor. The only weird part is Market Crossing at Byrne and Marine Way as that was designed as a car-centric box store plaza and also the risk of inundation when the river rises over the flood plain; but it would service the industrial business parks very well.
a bomb
There have been news articles on the delays and problems in transit infrastructure development all across Canada, can you cover it from your perspective
Excellent video! I would add that the Sea to Sky region is basically part of Metro Vancouver now, and any expansion plan of this nature really needs to include some sort of improvement there too. In the short-to-medium term, I would recommend getting a few diesel or battery multiple units to run a service from Waterfront just to get a regular, non-tourist trap service running again, with electrification and alignment upgrades in the long term. TL;DR: Vancouver needs GO RER, but for the Sea to Sky corridor
City with the best transit system?…
wait for it.
Moscow!
These are all great ideas. Which is why they will never happen in our lifetimes
The only thing I'm curious about is a rail connection (higher speed) that would continue if you went south from Richmond out to Tsawwassen and over to either a connection with your proposed Fraser Line in White Rock or even twinning the Highway 17 to Surrey Centre and even Langley. could be a thought especially with a new tunnel coming which should be supporting rail transit by its side.
I have a few minor changes I'd make to this plan, but I can't be bothered to enumerate them. Instead I'll submit my pettiest Vancouver transit fantasy: rename the Patterson station to Central Park!
I still can not wrap my head around how the Millenium line extension Evergreen was build way before the UBC extension, or the Broadway extension. I mean by all logic it should have priorities. I would always own a car or 2 or even more and drive, but boy would it make easier is the Broadway extension was build to take the transit or more outings, like go for a coffee in a coffee shop along Broadway instead of staying home etc and social gatherings
I hate Lionel-Groux style of cross platforms , it's dirty, exaberated by the rubber debri particles and on track particals. loud, not bright with all the dark colors tone even of the color itself should be brighter. Summer feel hot and winter feel hot with a Canada Goose because you need that in Montreal. A redesign with white colors and a touch of black or Yellow/ bright orange like actual the kind made you feel good. But mostly Clean white, can have touch transluscent and matte white finsih and sand not polish
Canada Line rolling stocks just sucks comparatively, Hyundai should have never been chosen. it's jsut a B tier even a tier looking trains and smaller windows less light and lighting to look outside. Mark 4 just is way more enjoyable. Plus it feel actually slower the Canada line, perhaps slower start and stop at stations.
Yeah, the plan is to have more cars and the work have already begin with testing etc. They're re upgrading the stations as well putting in new or mjor C checks on escalotors. How do I know this, they were hiring last year, not directly but the companies managing the projects and constructions, sub contractors, pays a few dollars below national average at the time and not too much, but was nice seeing it moving. I was offered a job by someone I meet and we got or get along. Also on the other hand more closer to me, semi related is propositions and considerations and offers of doing talent recruitements didn't end up taking neither
I will say this, don't try to get people not owing a car, it is BC after all, adventures and expeditions calls. But have them use less because it is more convenient and perhaps faster and in and out
I would have thought itd make more sense as far as ridership numbers goes to ditch the extension to Langley and use these freed up funds to extend the broadway line to UBC.