Vapourstreak
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Oh, sorry.
I've never read it, somehow.
Sorry.
EDIT: Either that, or I forgot. Sorry.
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No. There's sufficient accessibility capacity for thousands of people to use it daily.
When smart cards and fare gates are introduced, the existing 3-zone system will be scrapped and replaced with distance-traveled fare pricing like Hong Kong. They are also considering making our smart card compatible with vendors, perhaps like Tim Hortons and Jugo Juice.
Ohh, that's great! So we're trying to implement a Hong Kong type system here. Sounds very interesting, actually.
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Look in the previous page for pictures.
Because it's cheaper to build it now. The hole is already dug for the tunnel boring machine portal, might as well fill it in with the station now instead of later rather than filling it with dirt. And it'll be used by the many residents who live on the south side of False Creek and for those getting to Granville Island. It'll be a popular station once the station is used up, and it's built on city-owned land in which the city has plans to redevelop the vacant lot right next to the station into an entertainment complex....I'm going to assume it includes a theatre.
So are they planning to renovate it when the initial flow of passengers stop or something?
It doesn't make sense to implement the system with the Canada Line. For one thing, they are still designing the system. Secondly, any implementation would have to be done for the entire region at the same time.Oh right. Sorry, I wasn't really thinking. I hope they get this system up and running before they raise the bus ticket price or whatever, though. Will the same system be used across SeaBus, SkyTrain, and Buses, too?
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There are plans to do the same here, it's called distance-traveled fare pricing.
Maybe they should have implemented the system in the CanadaLine as a trial for the future region-wide use?
There are risks, though.
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I'm quite sure they didn't spend $60-million just to build a station to show-off, and even at that it's not much to show-off for.
The Olympic Village won't be done until the fall, so no it won't be occupied until next January when athletes and officials arrive.....and then it won't be occupied by residents until late next year. The station itself is west of the Cambie Street Bridge, about half a km away from the Village. The whole area southeast False Creek area, not just the Olympic Village, will be redeveloped into condos soon after for 15,000 people to live.
What you see at the Richmond terminus is it.
Then why do they need to rush the construction.
Does anyone have a picture of the station?
Does all SkyTrain line's end with that ugly thing like that?
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In Hong Kong, the Octopus Card works everywhere...
The price is calculated using the distance between the station you checked in at and the one you checked out in.
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Is anyone even using the Olympic Village yet, or is the station just for pictures and promotion?
EDIT: And are they going to make the end of the Canada Line near City Hall look any nicer? It looks like someone just cut off the cement right now.
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Hybrid or electric cars? Maybe a reality within the next ten to twenty years.
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Well then you're just a abnormal or irregular shape or size. :D
"Maybe Translink wouldn't need to have a new revenue generating plan if they fixed the old ones"? How would that even work? It takes money to make money in the first place. There's no money to fix the Pattullo without new revenues, and the Port Mann Bridge is the responsibility of the Ministry of Transportation and not Translink so the cost is going to Victoria and the P3 they set up.
There's no doubt that fare evasion is very high, much higher than Translink studies have reported. Even then, at the most with more fare checks and fare gates revenues would most likely rise tens of millions and not the hundreds of millions needed which you seemed to suggest.
I didn't understand the first part, but I'm guessing it's to insult me?
Yeah, you're right, but I don't think they'll get around to fix the ticketing system even if the tolls generated enough revenue. They could have started by maybe implementing a new system throughout the Canada Line, maybe to reduce the cost on future implementations or as a trial type of thing?
Just some kind of machine that guarantee's that the rider has a ticket. Maybe like those bus ticketers, but with a gate that unlocks each time a working ticket goes through it?
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I'd like eastward sprawl to be contained, so I hope that they extend the Skytrain not along the Fraser Hwy towards Langley, but south along the KG to Newton. Maybe have one branch like along 104th Ave to Guildford or Hwy 1, to reach out to Valley transfers and park and riders.
And toll it to deter driving and thin out the traffic, thereby reducing idle time for those who do pay.
Hasn't Translink been asking us to take buses and the SkyTrain for years now? Sometimes buses and SkyTrains don't go to the right place at the right time. Maybe we should implement a functional taxi system?
EDIT: Actually, that would probably cater perfectly to those dipsticks who like beating up bus drivers. Now they can do it in peace to the taxi drivers.
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While both Vancouver and Surrey use a grid system, the problem in Surrey transit is that everything's too far from each other. It takes a bit of time to get from one town center to the other. The average bus system won't work in Surrey. Skytrain's the backbone of Vancouver and Burnaby; let's try that in Surrey.
Cars will help with people getting around, and that's inevitable. So why not make it so that there's (at the very least), less idling while cars are lining up to get on the PM? Double it, make commuting from Coquitlam to Surrey easier, and then watch the results.
I'm kinda thinking of gang related activities, though.
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Golden Ears, Port Mann, and the new Pattullo.
If Translink's new revenue generating plans go ahead, then all bridges and the one tunnel in the region will be tolled. I'm all for that.
Maybe Translink wouldn't need to have a new revenue generating plan if they fixed the old ones. I've came across buses with broken ticketing machines, giving free rides to everyone, I've been sneaking on the middle or rear door of the 98 without any proof of purchase, and I've been just riding SkyTrains without paying. Imagine how much revenue Translink would generate if they ensured every single rider paid his/her fare.
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Surrey is perhaps the Vancouver region's most notorious municipality for sprawl, and thus being car-oriented. I do fear that the new PM and widening of Hwy 1 will only make things much more worse and set back Surrey's plans to develop a dense, livable, and thriving downtown area very much like Downtown Vancouver. And not just Surrey, but every municipality west of Vancouver for that matter. Car use will also go up with driving made easier.
The new Port Mann Bridge, while a stunning feat of engineering and architecture for this region, and the widening of Hwy 1 will mainly benefit single-occupancy drivers only. It's a very bad idea to increase road capacity for these folks.
There's a reason why Vancouver proper has high transit ridership. There are no highways, it uses a street grid, it's very walkable, and transit is conveniently located. The neighbourhoods also make it easy to serve transit. On top of that, with limited road capacity in the city there's increased congestion - and people do look at alternative methods of transport to get to work to avoid that congestion, that is if that alternative is available and a feasible alternative.
Gateway will simply make expanding transit into Surrey and the Fraser Valley more difficult, and it's going to set us back with being a transit-oriented region. I'm not saying road capacity isn't needed: that's I support the SFPR, the Golden Ears Bridge, and not having one lane on the Burrard Bridge as a bike lane to preserve what limited road capacity Vancouver will have (as it certainly won't be increasing road capacity, ever).
I could understand the Pitt River Bridge replacement, being how the old bridge is a unreliable swing span....but 7-lanes is a massive increase from the old bridge.
If we were to build a new Port Mann, make more of those new lanes HOV lanes and NOT lanes for single-occupancy. Thank god that bridge will be tolled, but unfortuntely the same can't be said for the Pitt River.
The expansions will ease congestion, but for how long? Roads, compared to transit, is terribly inefficient for moving people around and is expensive to build.
Speaking of the Pitt River Bridge, it's opening before the end of the year.
Aren't they planning to toll more than one bridge in the lower mainland? Golden Ears, Port Mann, any more?
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Wooow, think of how much complaints they're going to get.
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But, you're in monsoon season right now aren't you?
Yea. Goes on until mid-september I think. We get a lot of typhoons, so I usually just stay inside unless we're eating.
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We have it like every week in Hong Kong. Damn, it's scary. Seen thunder and lightning storms in Richmond, too, but I'm usually on CDC or something on that time, so I don't notice until my sister screams.
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I don't think any actual commercially used A380's ever landed, though. Yet.
The Official Transit Thread
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Those lawyers and people who live downtown or something might want one.