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Old 08-05-2009, 08:37 PM   #51
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Quite useless for me as the Canada Line doesn't even meet with the Skytrain except at Waterfront. Kind of stupid for people in the east to go to airport or Richmond.

Now if they expand the Millenium line, then we're talking.

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Quite useless for me as the Canada Line doesn't even meet with the Skytrain except at Waterfront. Kind of stupid for people in the east to go to airport or Richmond.

Now if they expand the Millenium line, then we're talking.

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If you want to go to Richmond, it is still way faster than take the bus.
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During rush hour, the frequency of trains between waterfront and columbia is pretty much back to back. Does this mean that it's not possible to have more frequent service where expo and millenium don't overlap (eg. vcc <=> columbia, columbia <=> surrey)?
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What will happens to the b line buses?
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need some clarification !

richmond -> SFU

take a richmond station (eg brighouse or yvr etc ) to waterfront, then take the skytrain from there?

seems simple enough!
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The lil wayne concert is also on August 17th. Watch all these gangster looking kids hop aboard the skytrain that day from richmond
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need some clarification !

richmond -> SFU

take a richmond station (eg brighouse or yvr etc ) to waterfront, then take the skytrain from there?

seems simple enough!
Should still be faster to take 410 to 22nd station then skytrain to production.
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they really need to connect like the station on marine drive and cambie to the 22nd station with like an express bus, not the 100 bus which stops every 2 blocks. they need like almost a shuttle service
tat would make life a lot more convinent
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Can you guys imagine how long it takes to go from YVR to King George?
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What will happens to the b line buses?
Will be discontinued.
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Can you guys imagine how long it takes to go from YVR to King George?
Well, it's about 25 minutes from YVR to Waterfront, and 39 from Waterfront to KG, so maybe an hour in total?

This'll make it a bit easier to go to Richmond from Surrey. I would rather take trains for an hour than bus down. Also, I can go to malls that my family has never visited since some of the buses are a pain in the ass to get to on those routes.
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they should use the current 98 b-line to connecti between broadway stn and one of the new stations, somehow..
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they should use the current 98 b-line to connecti between broadway stn and one of the new stations, somehow..
i was thinking of that too...
shuttle it between metro to broadway to new station somewhere...
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need some clarification !

richmond -> SFU

take a richmond station (eg brighouse or yvr etc ) to waterfront, then take the skytrain from there?

seems simple enough!
if you want to compare routes the Canada Line is bus number 980 on translinks route planner

canada line does have the advantage of reliability and not being impeded by traffic

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During rush hour, the frequency of trains between waterfront and columbia is pretty much back to back. Does this mean that it's not possible to have more frequent service where expo and millenium don't overlap (eg. vcc <=> columbia, columbia <=> surrey)?
I believe that current skytrain (not canada line) expo line fruns at near max headways, under 2mins. The best way to increase service is the addition of more 2 trains A-B A-B (thats what translink is doing right now with the new order) , and in the future A-C-B A-C-B which is possible (Beijing airport express same tech as skytrain is A-C-D-B)

here are the canada line frequencies
Until 7 a.m. Mon-Fri, 9 a.m. Sat and 10 a.m. Sun/Holidays 6 mins
Then until 6 p.m. every day 4 mins
6 p.m. - 11 p.m. 6 mins
11 p.m. until end of service 10 mins

dont forget to double in richmond since trains alternate between brighouse/richmond and yvr sea island

comparison between existing skytrain after 11pm

Skytrain Expo - 8 minutes*
Skytrain Millennium - 8 minutes*
Skytrain Canada - 20 minutes**

* combines Waterfront to Columbia to provide 4 minute headways
** combines Richmond and Airport branches Waterfront to Bridgeport to provide 10 minute headways

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What will happens to the b line buses?
-bline busses are already used on a hastings express bus (there is talk of making that a B-LINE route)
-there is also talk of making the 43 east-west b-line route to UBC which would ease canada line travellers off the 99 B-Line

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Can you guys imagine how long it takes to go from YVR to King George?
if you were to travel to waterfront 26 minutes from yvr + 39 to king george
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add the Vancouver City Center is at Granville and West Georgia for a quick transfer to skytrain via the street and during mall hours there is an entrance to Pacific Center next to SEARS.
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so u work for intransitbc, snc, or protrans.......?
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so u work for intransitbc, snc, or protrans.......?
as stated in previous post, i work for ministry of transportation. I'm not pro snc or protransbc, I would have preferred for the line to have been funded by government not p3 partnership, for many reasons but mostly because they only planned the line to be adequate for service, and not expandable unlike existing skytrain.

fyi inTransitBC was renamed to proTransBC (private operator)after Canada Line construction was complete, but on the trains they put inTransitBC lol.
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they should use the current 98 b-line to connecti between broadway stn and one of the new stations, somehow..
the 99 line to UBC already connects Broadway to Broadway-City Hall
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Broadway/city hall station:


take 99 bus and transfer over

waterfront elevator to train


train at oakridge:


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YVR station:


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they shouldve just named it City Hall Station..now people are going to get it confused with the Broadway Station on Expo/Millenium Line

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-there is also talk of making the 43 east-west b-line route to UBC which would ease canada line travellers off the 99 B-Line
hope that becomes a reality..we need a east-west b-line
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they shouldve just named it City Hall Station..now people are going to get it confused with the Broadway Station on Expo/Millenium Line


hope that becomes a reality..we need a east-west b-line
from what I've heard Broadway/Commerical is slowly being rebranded as Broadway-Commercial Drive, but a software technicality is preventing the announcements to be the same for what the system believes is two stations

once the future millennium line is completed BroadwayCityHall has been planned already to create a megastation for the cambie station including a future entrance on the northwest side of the intersection in the newish saveon-foods

some jackass has already graffitied a street entrance to the Canada Line downtown!

oh btw someone has posted tonnes of daily photos of the Canada Line for the last few years at
http://canadalinephotos.blogspot.com/

btw i'd like to correct some of the marketing of the Canada Line faq posted above
its true that that Canada Line cars are wider but how are Canada Line trains longer when most Canada Line stations are 40m platforms, expandable to 50m (some underground stations are already 50m because of the difficulty of future expansion) ?
Skytrain stations are all longer already at 80m and in the works to be expanded!
Canada Line tech is not more "modern" its the same old stuff used in traditional subway rail, LIM is more modern as it was created in the late 70s.

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