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I was just in England for a week (Croyde in North Devon to be precise) and I took a couple of pictures of the local village bus just for you guys. :P Yah okay, not that exciting, but the only other public transit I took was the Heathrow Express between terminals in the airport, and I didn't dare take pictures of that will all the security people around.

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and the interior

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The layout is very similar to our newer buses in the lower mainland. Only different thing really is that the bus driver sits in a glassed-in area and you don't have to have exact change for the bus. Also, you can buy a return ticket.

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Province wants public input on Evergreen Line

Designers of the proposed Evergreen Line want the public’s help determining whether each station should blend into, or stand out from, existing neighbourhoods.

The province wants public feedback on the preliminary design of the proposed 11-kilometre Evergreen Line that would connect Coquitlam to the Lower Mainland’s existing SkyTrain system.

B.C. announced the preliminary design consultation period on Friday and is hosting a half dozen open houses, the first of which ran Saturday in Port Moody. Construction on the estimated $1.4-billion line is expected to begin next year and run through 2014.

The Line will use SkyTrain technology (ALRT), which is almost twice as fast as LRT (Light Rail Transit) and has lower operating costs. It will, however, cost about $150 million more than and a comparable LRT system.

A survey, available online at evergreenline.gov.bc.ca, wants to know what stations people would use most often and what facilities those stations should contain.

There are also questions about the approach to station design, whether or not they should look uniform and whether they should blend into neighbourhoods.

http://www.metronews.ca/vancouver/local/ar...-evergreen-line

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hey nitro or whoever!!! i just noticed these pretty cool LED signs riddled along Main st. that shows name of bus and how long till it comes!!! thought these were pretty sweet. but i already have a feeling that idiots will easily bat these down or whatever.

was wondering if there was an article talking about it or something as i heard nothing until i saw them!

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hey nitro or whoever!!! i just noticed these pretty cool LED signs riddled along Main st. that shows name of bus and how long till it comes!!! thought these were pretty sweet. but i already have a feeling that idiots will easily bat these down or whatever.

was wondering if there was an article talking about it or something as i heard nothing until i saw them!

It's a shame that it won't be a matter of "if" but rather a matter of "when"... Vancouverites have no respect for pubic property. :(

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It's a shame that it won't be a matter of "if" but rather a matter of "when"... Vancouverites have no respect for pubic property. :(

hey bucky!!! and no kidding, i remember when those new sheltered bus stops (with the clear glass and simple design which i really love) came out to replace those old brown wooden ones, itd barely last a couple weeks before i see a panel all cracked or broken because some idiot wanted to be cool or something. its sad to still see a number of bus stops w/out the glass panels as if theyre already tired of replacing them over and over...

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I think it would occur faster, although it's already well under way. They are just now planning for NEFC, I think incorporating the removal the viaduct in the plan is a good thing, or at least have that as an option.

Here are the boards from the NEFC open houses--they recommend stuff under the viaduct, but not the removal. http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/planning/nefc...rdscombined.pdf

There certainly is good precedent to do it, but I don't know if we should wait for an earth quake....

Sounds like San Francisco

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loma_Prieta_e..._transportation

They had something like the GEorgia Viaduct destroyed by an earthquake. The damage and loss of life was definitely horrible. But after it was removed, the area was much more attractive to work in and visit.

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Sounds like San Francisco

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loma_Prieta_e..._transportation

They had something like the GEorgia Viaduct destroyed by an earthquake. The damage and loss of life was definitely horrible. But after it was removed, the area was much more attractive to work in and visit.

Cheong Gye Cheon in Seoul. They tore down a freeway that used to go above it and dug out the stream that they paved over back in the day to build the elevated highway. This place is awesome in the summer when it's stifling hot. It's a few degrees cooler down there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheonggyecheon

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Sounds like San Francisco

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loma_Prieta_e..._transportation

They had something like the GEorgia Viaduct destroyed by an earthquake. The damage and loss of life was definitely horrible. But after it was removed, the area was much more attractive to work in and visit.

The thing with San Francisco is that the freeway was a stacked freeway (different directions on two levels) so not only did the freeway structure topple sideways, the top level came down on the bottom level crushing everyone on the bottom level.....that, and that the SF freeway is much, much longer.

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http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/...owen-ferry.html

Why this isn't already in service is beyond me. Municipalities in Metro Vancouver do a shiate job of using all the water ways that surround us.

Because that's what the seabus is supposed to be for. That channel is a pretty busy shipping area and i wouldn't want too many ferries going across it.

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Because that's what the seabus is supposed to be for. That channel is a pretty busy shipping area and i wouldn't want too many ferries going across it.

It's a bit out of the way for West Vanners, and you'd have to go through congested N. Van traffic to get to it.

This would be the best interim solution till we get a Skytrain extension running that way.

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Cheong Gye Cheon in Seoul. They tore down a freeway that used to go above it and dug out the stream that they paved over back in the day to build the elevated highway. This place is awesome in the summer when it's stifling hot. It's a few degrees cooler down there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheonggyecheon

Exactly.

See my blog and Flickr.

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There are a few problems to that proposal...they are also suggesting running those boats from Ambleside to the wood pier at Jericho Beach and perhaps even Granville Island.

Are people really going to ride it? Comfort needs to be considered: i've been on one of those boats and they aren't very stable when they go quickly, and they are a bit cramped and old. Is it fast enough to compete with travel times with the car or even bus transit? And what connections can you make once you arrive to the end destination? (i.e. you'd need Translink to run buses to these make-shift ferry terminals for this ferry service to be feasible).

If we want a serious harbour ferry system like Sydney and San Francisco, we will need to invest some serious capital into it (appealing ferry piers and new, high-speed boats) and re-route some of our buses so that they serve these ferry terminals.

If only Translink could get serious with SeaBus: why are the boats so small? (add another deck to it) And why are they so slow?

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Exactly.

See my blog and Flickr.

Something similar had actually been proposed for northeast False Creek, where the viaducts and the turf sports field are today. The idea was to create an extension of False Creek using Chinese techniques, as an extension of Chinatown and Sun Yat Garden. It would have looked something like this:

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However, it was canceled because of the costs to remove and clean up the toxic post-industrial soils.

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Something similar had actually been proposed for northeast False Creek, where the viaducts and the turf sports field are today. The idea was to create an extension of False Creek using Chinese techniques, as an extension of Chinatown and Sun Yat Garden. It would have looked something like this:

Chinese%20Garden2.jpg

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However, it was canceled because of the costs to remove and clean up the toxic post-industrial soils.

Reminds me of this place.

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