Build an underground UBC Line SkyTrain along the Broadway corridor that connects with the existing V
The 99 B-Line bus is a key cog in many students coming from the suburbs and a source of their many frustrations. For too long students in Burnaby, New Westminster, Surrey, Langley, etc have sacrificed two hours of their day just to learn at one of the most beautiful and prestigious universities in the world. Being able to connect them via SkyTrain will greatly affect the quality of transportation to campus. The Broadway corridor itself has been waiting for something like this for sometime, and connecting it with the Millennium line at VCC-Clark would do wonders to curb the time crunch with buses. Although this is very beneficial to students, people who travel along the Broadway corridor to access the Vancouver General Hospital, Canada Line will see decreased travel time. It seems like the next logical step and I feel that it is a win-win for many people in the Greater Vancouver Area.
Dylan Callow
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TransLink is currently leading a study to determine the best approach to deliver high-capacity, fast, frequent, and reliable rapid transit for the Broadway Corridor from Commercial Drive to UBC. A number of technologies and alignment options are being considered, including rail rapid transit (e.g. SkyTrain), surface light rail transit, and bus rapid transit.
The City of Vancouver is directly involved as a partner agency in the study. In April 2010, City Council endorsed ten principles to guide City input into this process (http://vancouver/ubcline/principles).
Visit http://vancouver.ca/ubcline to learn more about this work, including upcoming public engagement events.
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Paul @ City of Vancouver
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TransLink is currently leading a study to determine the best approach to deliver high-capacity, fast, frequent, and reliable rapid transit for the Broadway Corridor from Commercial Drive to UBC. A number of technologies and alignment options are being considered, including rail rapid transit (e.g. SkyTrain), surface light rail transit, and bus rapid transit.
The City of Vancouver is directly involved as a partner agency in the study. In April 2010, City Council endorsed ten principles to guide City input into this process ( http://vancouver/ubcline/principles ).
Visit http://vancouver.ca/ubcline to learn more about this work, including upcoming public engagement events.
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Aone
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The reason for all the real estate development at UBC is to pay for all the higher wages of the professors and heads. Like any other people if there is money to be made cutting trees down, the trees get cut down and the environment is not even a concern.
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ecoillogical
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We need is to stop UBC's master plan for unsustainable urban spraw and related need for expanded mass transit. We don't need another city centre at the farthest reaches of Point Grey and at the cost of clear cutting precious local forest. UBC should refocus its undergraduate teaching facilities at downtown and other central sites (and on-line) rather than encourage further commuter traffic accross the city. UBC is greenwashing its unsustainable and evergrowing preoccupation with real estate development!
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Ekai
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Only if electric streetcars (or even electric version of the current Bline busses) were implemented and coupled with traffic priority for transit could this be both affordable for translink and helpful to students.
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Viky
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A sky train in ridiculous and way to much expensive. Instead build a network of street car like they are doing in Europe. Modern, smooth, silent efficient this is could be the future on Broadway. It will also reduce the traffic.
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Drive More
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Yes, Better to move UBC to the the junction of the existing transportation lines.
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Adam Hyslop
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An underground system out to UBC would cost a fortune (in the $$ billions) to implement and wouldn’t see very substantial ridership increases since most students are already transit-borne. While it would definitely make our lives as students less stressful, there are better ways of spending public transit funds. For about the same cost Translink could install (restore & expand) a streetcar or tram system throughout the entire city (See http://www.sxd.sala.ubc.ca/8_research/sxd_FRB06_tram.pdf). Using signal priority, dedicated right-of-ways and altered street designs (eg. median loading), speeds and capacities could still be boosted along key corridors and the line could be part of a reinvigorated whole city transit system where everyone could walk to a streetcar and get around quickly.
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Juvarya Warsi
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I wholeheartedly agree, one of the most underserved and frustrating routes in the City. In the UK, many universities choose to locate downtown, to be close to business and to avoid transportation issues. UBC's Robson Campus is a very small offshoot and I'm surprised more schools like business, architecture, and engineering aren't located downtown.
I also know a lot of students that live in the West End. Using the waterways and adding a ferry service to UBC would offer another alternative means of transportation.