I was in Vancouver for the first time this year, and literally three different people (all unprompted) spoke to me about the Skytrain extension as if it were a mythical creature I might just be lucky to see during my lifetime. Thanks for explaining why!
I've been living in Vancouver since the early 90s, and it indeed has changed. Back then it was just the expo line. Then shortly after we got the millennium line. Then we got the Canada line for the Olympics. Then numerous skytrains stations been destroyed and renovated on the expo line. Then the millennium line been extended to go into Coquitlam. Now they're extending the millennium line on the other end to go to Arbutus. We also got a light rail line recently called the West Coast Express that travels from downtown Vancouver to Mission City.
Hence why North America needs a huge overhaul in their perspective on commuting I think the young are starting realize being dependent on a car is quite expensive and inefficient for society
Yes it's true I have heard people in thiere late teens early twenties stating that they don't want a car. Too expensive. When I was a kid I never heard such a comment.
It won't be comparable to the older generation. Life is becoming more expensive, since we have more population and mass influx of migration. Clearly alternatives are better...
@@livethefuture2492 yeah because Europe had Germans exporting their trains to nearby neighbours. While East Asia had Japan exporting their bullet trains since 1970s...
OBVIOUSLY you are two IDIOTS That's Broadway ARBUTUS goes north and south I'm always suprise The drive people have conscientious verbiage who had no idea a train track existed Now the clown infiltrated Walk path with thundering bikes of autobahn I have a big surprise for all you FILTHY racers
The key thing here will be a bus exchange/loop. It is the end of the main section of the Broadway Business District. Years from now it could tie into another transit line (light rail perhaps?) running north/south.
Why would UBC fund a skytrain but when they can spend money on quality art installations like "The Shadow" at a huge bargin! Only 390K for an art project that could have been conceived and implemented for free as a prank by the engineering department in a single night.
Here in LA, we're going through a similar situation. Route 720 on Wilshire is the busiest bus route in the US. It runs between Downtown and Santa Monica and suffers from overcrowding. One of our subways is going to be extended to Westwood, with stops at the busiest points along the way (Miracle Mile, Restaurant Row (La Cienega), Rodeo, and Century City). It's main intention is to reduce congestion on route 720, but many question why it can't be extended all the way to Santa Monica, where there is still travel demand, but ridership is lower, similar to UBC.
Nope all lies Most PEOPLE of higher income drive dont u looker runnin neighborhood Stop this farce now SHOULD be TITLE my dream is not reality NO PLANS ARBUTUS BROADWAY THATS IT 2 .5 CARS WEST OF GRANVILLE SAY NO MAKES NO SENSE RIP UP ENOUGH RHODIES
The current extension is useful though as a downtown bypass, route to VGH, and it will help a lot of people get to the airport. Also, there were a lot of talking points from anti-skytrain people about "No skytrain for rich entitled students", so it was politically easier to only do a chunk of it. It looks now like the UBC extension has support from most of the relevant authorities, we'll see if it translates to actual results.
Hey guys, I wish you all the best. I am retired now but back in 1963, I wanted to attend BCIT but it was a year or two out. I went to Oregon State and got my education there.
I moved from Vancouver to Australia 10 years ago, and your awesome videos make me feel like I'm still there (and still bitching about transportation issues!). Great work!
What city did you move to in Australia? I live near Brisbane, and the public transport isn't that great, well not as good as Vancouver's seems to be anyways.
3:58 on the right the dude in the background got honked at while he was crossing the street and the way he let the car go before him was so dramatic xD
There's plans for a gondola from Production Way Station. Even a SkyTrain doesn't have enough acceleration to make it up the mountain - not without ten floors of escalators.
Makes sense to me. Your video explained why translink is building to arbutus. If ubc wants to fully fund the extension out to campus that’s fine but I see no rush to extend sky train into an area still filled with single family homes. Other areas with higher density and commercial should be (and are) the priority.
I don't think "priority" should be the priority. Why do some people matter more? Why prioritize the many at the expense of the few? What if our goal was just a well run, well connected city?
You should make a more contemporary video about TransLink and all its SkyTrain projects. Not only to we have the Broadway Extension underway, but now we have a Langley Extension being studied!
When I was in Vancouver, we visited the first nations museum at UBC and I thought that it would be a fantastic idea to take my wife and kids along via the skytrain. I've never been on a more crowded bus in my life.....
I remember going on that B-Line when I was commuting from home in Surrey to UBC. Such huge lineups, I would always see people jamming themselves in as the last person... Which I have definitely done when running late!
Here is the thing, most of the people go to UBC have Upass, TransLink basically don't want to waste money on UBC students who they can't make money from!
@@georgerustic3817 Because SFU is an area that's otherwise quite inaccessible. If you're, literally, going up a mountain to get to university, there'd better be a skytrain involved. Also, the skytrain to SFU doesn't actually go up to the university, it takes you about halfway up, then you continue the rest of the journey by bus. UBC is far West, but it's not inaccessible by any means.
The UPass is something students pay for in their University fees on an opt-out basis. It is steeply discounted but it is not zero. If the 99 is already being operated at a frequency that serves the dense(ish) employment and residential land use between Commercial Drive and Arbutus, then that modest fee students are paying is likely appropriate to the marginal operating costs of simply running it out to UBC. UBC is also a very large employer as a research university; their ridership demographic is considerably wider than students. There is also an argument to be made for developing ridership habits in students, who are more of a captive market at that stage in life, that may persist beyond graduation when they may choose to be discretionary riders in their post-university careers. If service is reliable, safe, comfortable, connects them to many meaningful places (live, work, and play), and makes a good value proposition versus buying/using a car (an immediately depreciating asset), those thousands of students who graduate each year may choose to become full-price paying customers. How effective this is depends on the qualities I just mentioned but Translink can best demonstrate such qualities through first-hand experience and habit development when students are more obligated to them; it is much harder to convince someone whose primary daily experience is already a private automobile.
When I visited UBC as a half-day trip during my brief visit at Vancouver, I've been thinking about this question on the entirety of the 1.5-hour round-trip bus trip
I worked at whole foods on broadway and Cambie about 6 years ago. One day I was working in one of the stock rooms behind the dairy cooler and guess what. There’s an entire “Skytrain” station entrance roughed into this stock room. I asked my manager what it was and he told me straight up. That’s for when the skytrain gets extended to UBC soon. Sounds like they’ve already made these plan way before that new building on the corner of broadway and Cambie was ever built. True story ask any grocery clerk who works at whole foods at broadway and Cambie.
They’re actually building it right now. Very exciting. Another development is they put more resources to the R4 line in 41st, and now in UBC I think R4 is even more popular than 99. R4 is insanely overcrowded now though.
They were supposed to continue the SkyTrain from VCC Clark station... I heard it was going to go to UBC when I was in the 7th grade.... 15 years ago....
We need Skytrain to Langley too! Trains are much more convenient, fast and modern. Well, I guess our transit is pretty decent already for a city of our size.
The biggest issue is not the money, it is the powerful people who live around UBC, the politicians, and million-dollar mansion owners. The point Grey communication strongly against the public come to their community. They are afraid of the homeless and the drug trafficking problems often come with the Skytrain.
The transit authority of South East Queensland (within the state of Queensland, Australia) is also called TransLink, so it's really weird hearing their name in a video about Canadian transport.
From the sound of it, Translink is making the right decision. The problem isn't the amount of time it takes for people to get to UBC, the problem is that the bus system can't cope with the demand.
Great video, well put together and very informative. Before watching my estimations were roughly 2030 if it ever happens...But in 2040? Wow, this city does move rather slow and extra slow the traffic will be for the 2-3 years building it.
Toronto and Montreal have all their universities and most of their major colleges serviced by a rapid transit line. For exemple, University of Montreal and McGill are already connected to the metro and on to of that they’re getting a direct subway link to the airport. UBC or SFU deserve some transit love too!
Love your video! The info, presentation, editing and the music chosen for this video...I just don’t know what to say...they just are really good :) Keep up with the good work!!
There are also a lot of NIMBYs with a lot of money in Kits and Point Grey who don't want their neighbourhoods to be "ruined" by rapid transit. You can bet they are fighting tooth and nail against this... The irony is that having rapid transit will actually increase their property values.
Hi! Can I ask you a writing question? How do you guys do your research? How do you find out the things you didn't know that you didn't know? Great channel!
This is just like the San Francisco Central Subway that planned to extend the T line to Fisherman's Wharf. However, this current phase will only be four more stations to Chinatown at a cost of $1.578 billion.
Given the elevation of commercial broadway station, a cut-and-cover subway along broadway would be the most effective option, however I doubt it would be cheap.
i take the 99 every morning to main and im quite lucky because i live about a block from the commercial broadway station. I hope theres some sort of skytrain route for those who arent as fortunate to live near the 99.
3 yrs later, update from UBC in 2020 seems it may take a while… Honolulu HART (Transit Authority) copy the idea of SkyTrain (city councils took a trip to YVR) now cost over-run and incomplete 5 miles. I bet ours will take a while too!
I thought the Skytrain extension should at the very least go to Broadway and Alma, where bus service could at least pick up UBC students and shuttle them from there. Financially there might be a lot of arguments against running a line through the UBC highway, (unless it was a cheaper “at grade” streetcar from there. But it should go hand in hand with a four to six storey density increase along Broadway from Arbutus to Alma. The days of just a ground floor retail space with nothing above it along Broadway should have ended 20 years ago. Some of the new buildings around Broadway and Balaclava on the north side of the street should be the future of Broadway.
The new wrinkle in the plan is the development of the old military site at Jericho. With a proposal of 30,000 people living in mixed housing there so the line would have to take that into consideration.
I was in Vancouver for the first time this year, and literally three different people (all unprompted) spoke to me about the Skytrain extension as if it were a mythical creature I might just be lucky to see during my lifetime. Thanks for explaining why!
I've been living in Vancouver since the early 90s, and it indeed has changed. Back then it was just the expo line. Then shortly after we got the millennium line. Then we got the Canada line for the Olympics. Then numerous skytrains stations been destroyed and renovated on the expo line. Then the millennium line been extended to go into Coquitlam. Now they're extending the millennium line on the other end to go to Arbutus. We also got a light rail line recently called the West Coast Express that travels from downtown Vancouver to Mission City.
maybe the real skytrain extension was the friends we made along the way
@@cottonswab2131 Billion dollar friends are the best friends
Hence why North America needs a huge overhaul in their perspective on commuting
I think the young are starting realize being dependent on a car is quite expensive and inefficient for society
Yes it's true I have heard people in thiere late teens early twenties stating that they don't want a car. Too expensive. When I was a kid I never heard such a comment.
It won't be comparable to the older generation. Life is becoming more expensive, since we have more population and mass influx of migration. Clearly alternatives are better...
i think Europe and East Asia have done dense urban mass transit much better.
We need to partner up with Germans and Japanese and import their tran technology. Take Canadian metro and transportation to the next level.
@@livethefuture2492 yeah because Europe had Germans exporting their trains to nearby neighbours. While East Asia had Japan exporting their bullet trains since 1970s...
It’s really cool to see you getting a sponsor from a local business! Super wholesome and perfectly on point
If it makes you feel any better, in my hometown NYC, it took nearly 40 years to build a 1.5 mile long Second Avenue Subway.
Yeah, but New York spends so much on their subway that every news outlet doesn't understand it and gets locked up in federal discourse.
Actually is true, the 99bline it's always overcrowded but once you pass Granville, it's decreased by more then half, you can even get to sit
"All the exciting things that Arbutus street has to offer" hahahaha I admit I lost it right there
onyxr A Shell Station! A Dry cleaner! A Liquor Store! What more can you ask for?
No kale juice bar
So not exciting
No bath house
No beggars
OBVIOUSLY you are two IDIOTS
That's Broadway
ARBUTUS goes north and south
I'm always suprise
The drive people have conscientious verbiage
who had no idea a train track existed
Now the clown infiltrated
Walk path with thundering bikes of autobahn
I have a big surprise for all you FILTHY racers
DISGUSTING they let you across border of GRANVILLE
The key thing here will be a bus exchange/loop. It is the end of the main section of the Broadway Business District. Years from now it could tie into another transit line (light rail perhaps?) running north/south.
This is so highly produced, you deserve way more views. Great work!
flying drones
i swear down
IF THEY WERN'T SPENDING ALL THAT MONEY ON LRT THEN THEY COULD DO IT ALL THE WAY TO UBC
Why would UBC fund a skytrain but when they can spend money on quality art installations like "The Shadow" at a huge bargin! Only 390K for an art project that could have been conceived and implemented for free as a prank by the engineering department in a single night.
Lmao
390k is small compared to 3 billion though
@@zoellazayce6796 1 billion; the line will already be extended for most of the way.
Too much corruption in BC
Just his little dream no
Skytrain in the next 20 years
Here in LA, we're going through a similar situation. Route 720 on Wilshire is the busiest bus route in the US. It runs between Downtown and Santa Monica and suffers from overcrowding. One of our subways is going to be extended to Westwood, with stops at the busiest points along the way (Miracle Mile, Restaurant Row (La Cienega), Rodeo, and Century City). It's main intention is to reduce congestion on route 720, but many question why it can't be extended all the way to Santa Monica, where there is still travel demand, but ridership is lower, similar to UBC.
This would make such a huge difference for that whole side of the city, which is growing very rapidly. It's about time.
Nope all lies
Most PEOPLE of higher income drive dont u looker runnin neighborhood
Stop this farce now
SHOULD be TITLE my dream is not reality
NO PLANS
ARBUTUS BROADWAY THATS IT
2 .5 CARS WEST OF GRANVILLE SAY NO
MAKES NO SENSE
RIP UP ENOUGH RHODIES
@@ostapbendervan7874 Are you having a stroke?
@@ostapbendervan7874 Thank you for your incomprehensible contribution.
The current extension is useful though as a downtown bypass, route to VGH, and it will help a lot of people get to the airport. Also, there were a lot of talking points from anti-skytrain people about "No skytrain for rich entitled students", so it was politically easier to only do a chunk of it. It looks now like the UBC extension has support from most of the relevant authorities, we'll see if it translates to actual results.
Hey guys, I wish you all the best. I am retired now but back in 1963, I wanted to attend BCIT but it was a year or two out. I went to Oregon State and got my education there.
I moved from Vancouver to Australia 10 years ago, and your awesome videos make me feel like I'm still there (and still bitching about transportation issues!). Great work!
What city did you move to in Australia? I live near Brisbane, and the public transport isn't that great, well not as good as Vancouver's seems to be anyways.
3:58 on the right the dude in the background got honked at while he was crossing the street and the way he let the car go before him was so dramatic xD
Overly dramatique
Nice video!
(I don't even live in Vancouver, but now I want Chef's Sushi. Great ad! 😂 )
Victorian Here!. I love the skytrain, and ride every time I visit. Your Videos rock!
The "next to U... ...BC" might have fizzled, but the "holy cow" hit me.
As an international in the city I loved your videos. Insightful but approachable. And with great production quality!
"Only" 32% want to travel to UBC on the 99B-line, am i alone in thinking thats a lot ,and reason enough to build it?
lol
Nope
No train to ubc
@@ReXox35 I would love to see more density in North America if it was middle density.
@@ostapbendervan7874 Why?
I totally agree!!! We need one to UBC 🙏🙏🙏 PLEASE!!!! I commute from North Van by the way..
Oh lolz.. I come from port moody and I thought I had it bad
The better question is, when do we get a sky train to SFU mountain? 🤔
My argument is that there are busses from production way station where the route is shorter
Probably never
Well, after UBC does obviously, if ever
Don’t think it can make it up that incline.
There's plans for a gondola from Production Way Station. Even a SkyTrain doesn't have enough acceleration to make it up the mountain - not without ten floors of escalators.
Vancourite coming in from the City Beautiful video. Will have to check out the rest of your channel!
Makes sense to me. Your video explained why translink is building to arbutus. If ubc wants to fully fund the extension out to campus that’s fine but I see no rush to extend sky train into an area still filled with single family homes. Other areas with higher density and commercial should be (and are) the priority.
it will most likely be underground. like they did with the Canada Line.
I don't think "priority" should be the priority. Why do some people matter more? Why prioritize the many at the expense of the few? What if our goal was just a well run, well connected city?
Which areas?
lol the people getting on/off the bus and the crowd reminds me of Cities Skylines (PC game) when you're city gets big
there needs to be more of these type of public transportation projects. thanks to your video.....your effort is appreciated.
Apparently by 2025 now with the Millennium Line UBC Extension being underway
That's the Broadway extension, not the UBC extension.
You should make a more contemporary video about TransLink and all its SkyTrain projects. Not only to we have the Broadway Extension underway, but now we have a Langley Extension being studied!
Dear About Here,
it’s already 2024, where’s that Skytrain to arbutus?
It’s coming
When I was in Vancouver, we visited the first nations museum at UBC and I thought that it would be a fantastic idea to take my wife and kids along via the skytrain. I've never been on a more crowded bus in my life.....
That was one of the most chill ads I've seen in a video. Nice.
I remember going on that B-Line when I was commuting from home in Surrey to UBC. Such huge lineups, I would always see people jamming themselves in as the last person... Which I have definitely done when running late!
Here is the thing, most of the people go to UBC have Upass, TransLink basically don't want to waste money on UBC students who they can't make money from!
but they have a skytrain that goes to sfu an sfu campus why not ubc ?
@@georgerustic3817 Because SFU is an area that's otherwise quite inaccessible. If you're, literally, going up a mountain to get to university, there'd better be a skytrain involved. Also, the skytrain to SFU doesn't actually go up to the university, it takes you about halfway up, then you continue the rest of the journey by bus. UBC is far West, but it's not inaccessible by any means.
The UPass is something students pay for in their University fees on an opt-out basis. It is steeply discounted but it is not zero. If the 99 is already being operated at a frequency that serves the dense(ish) employment and residential land use between Commercial Drive and Arbutus, then that modest fee students are paying is likely appropriate to the marginal operating costs of simply running it out to UBC. UBC is also a very large employer as a research university; their ridership demographic is considerably wider than students.
There is also an argument to be made for developing ridership habits in students, who are more of a captive market at that stage in life, that may persist beyond graduation when they may choose to be discretionary riders in their post-university careers. If service is reliable, safe, comfortable, connects them to many meaningful places (live, work, and play), and makes a good value proposition versus buying/using a car (an immediately depreciating asset), those thousands of students who graduate each year may choose to become full-price paying customers. How effective this is depends on the qualities I just mentioned but Translink can best demonstrate such qualities through first-hand experience and habit development when students are more obligated to them; it is much harder to convince someone whose primary daily experience is already a private automobile.
@@georgerustic3817 Nothing else is near UBC, no reason to go there.
@@georgerustic3817 SkyTrain doesn’t to to SFU. You have to take a bus up the mountain from Production Way Station.
I can’t believe it’s 4 years later and there is still no skytrain to UBC
UBC pying for the full extension is great news. Thanks for letting us know.
This is a truly exceptional video about a transit line in a city I've never been to.
Great Job. Coming from City Beautiful Channel. This makes me want to visit Vancouver
When I visited UBC as a half-day trip during my brief visit at Vancouver, I've been thinking about this question on the entirety of the 1.5-hour round-trip bus trip
This needs more views and more people need to know about this.
love that land use planner's happy meal bento box. hilarious. awesome video. Now I feel more clear about this big construction near my hood:)
I love your videos. Have watched them all. I live in British Columbia as well! Keep up the incredible work.
I worked at whole foods on broadway and Cambie about 6 years ago. One day I was working in one of the stock rooms behind the dairy cooler and guess what. There’s an entire “Skytrain” station entrance roughed into this stock room. I asked my manager what it was and he told me straight up. That’s for when the skytrain gets extended to UBC soon. Sounds like they’ve already made these plan way before that new building on the corner of broadway and Cambie was ever built. True story ask any grocery clerk who works at whole foods at broadway and Cambie.
What do you think about Surrey LRT? I'd like to hear from you also.
They’re actually building it right now. Very exciting. Another development is they put more resources to the R4 line in 41st, and now in UBC I think R4 is even more popular than 99. R4 is insanely overcrowded now though.
Please make a video about the proposed Surrey LRT project.
They were supposed to continue the SkyTrain from VCC Clark station... I heard it was going to go to UBC when I was in the 7th grade.... 15 years ago....
We need Skytrain to Langley too! Trains are much more convenient, fast and modern. Well, I guess our transit is pretty decent already for a city of our size.
@@GoofusPlays It's one of the best though.
first last no it isn’t
How exciting to know that we might have developed warp drive before seeing skytrain on UBC's turf?
The biggest issue is not the money, it is the powerful people who live around UBC, the politicians, and million-dollar mansion owners. The point Grey communication strongly against the public come to their community. They are afraid of the homeless and the drug trafficking problems often come with the Skytrain.
Having access to rapid transit actually increases property values.
Great vid, buddy. Keep up the good work on these very, very topical videos!
The transit authority of South East Queensland (within the state of Queensland, Australia) is also called TransLink, so it's really weird hearing their name in a video about Canadian transport.
From the sound of it, Translink is making the right decision. The problem isn't the amount of time it takes for people to get to UBC, the problem is that the bus system can't cope with the demand.
Both are problems.
this channel is so good you deserve more subs. wish we had something like this in toronto.
Based on Canadian speed, if they begin to build the skytrain to UBC now then it might finish by the year 2030.
*3030
Lol, why is this in my recommendation? I’m not even UBC student or British Columbian.
夏夢アイ yea after watching this video, I’m getting Chinese advertisements talking about Vancouver 🤔
You oriental
It's ACTUALLY HAPPINING!
In 2023
@@Cartonies Nope, not 2023
Dude so cool to see another local content creator doing cool stuff! Love what you've done so far!
Subscribed for the well-produced videos, cute quips from a cute guy, and smooooth voice.
Omg a sponsorship I’m actually interested in! More please
Wow I love your videos man. Gives lots of insight to why things are going the way they are going in Vancouver. Thanks. Hope you do more videos soon!
I love that sweater.! Lol Keep up the good work and great videos!!
This is the most vancouver video lol
Great video, well put together and very informative. Before watching my estimations were roughly 2030 if it ever happens...But in 2040? Wow, this city does move rather slow and extra slow the traffic will be for the 2-3 years building it.
Awesome channel. I've been thinking of doing something similar that talks about Calgary urban issues.
Hope I can see this ACTUALLY happen before my retirement (currently my 4th year in UBC)
当年在waterloo读书。。。也是毕业了以后LRT 才造完。。。
Great mid-roll ad that actually adds value to all! Even if we won’t be in Vancouver, we get food porn, and you’re promoting a good, local business! 👏
Toronto and Montreal have all their universities and most of their major colleges serviced by a rapid transit line. For exemple, University of Montreal and McGill are already connected to the metro and on to of that they’re getting a direct subway link to the airport. UBC or SFU deserve some transit love too!
T D Theyre already served by rapid transit lines...
@@vrob7 Buses don't count.
This is great! I have made my own share of SkyTrain videos and I love what you've done, here!
Thanks so much!
They're finally getting one :)
Love your channel. Great work as always
Love your video! The info, presentation, editing and the music chosen for this video...I just don’t know what to say...they just are really good :) Keep up with the good work!!
Your videos are very well done, I will go to the chef sushi to honor your hard work.
These videos are awesome, you do great work!
It MUST go to UBC!
4:50 train and bike go by :)
Can't wait for Victoria to get some sort of mass transit.
Damn this is really well done!!!
Wow, this was actually a very knowledgable video. Good job, man
There are also a lot of NIMBYs with a lot of money in Kits and Point Grey who don't want their neighbourhoods to be "ruined" by rapid transit. You can bet they are fighting tooth and nail against this... The irony is that having rapid transit will actually increase their property values.
Holy Cow!! This is great, you crack me up hahaha!
Hi! Can I ask you a writing question? How do you guys do your research? How do you find out the things you didn't know that you didn't know? Great channel!
Would definitely need a lot of trains to be built
This is just like the San Francisco Central Subway that planned to extend the T line to Fisherman's Wharf. However, this current phase will only be four more stations to Chinatown at a cost of $1.578 billion.
Your videos are awesome. Keep em up, hope you get more attention!
Thank God I live on campus.
Lol! UBC deeeeefinitely needs skytrain access. The chime was a nice touch before the title card.
Very informative report nice job.
I suppose they' don't want to get into the same trouble with local merchants like they did with Canada Line construction??
Why does this feel like it was produced by vox? This is so well done
look at you my dude, getting an ad at only 11k subs. I subbed dude, keep it up
Your videos are really well done. Thanks for posting. I just subscribed 👍
President Ono (@ubcprez) is on it and if anyone can make it happen, it's him ( IMO) Greatvideo!
Given the elevation of commercial broadway station, a cut-and-cover subway along broadway would be the most effective option, however I doubt it would be cheap.
It's now half way done
I love the Vox visual style!
i take the 99 every morning to main and im quite lucky because i live about a block from the commercial broadway station. I hope theres some sort of skytrain route for those who arent as fortunate to live near the 99.
I was thinking whether can the Millennium Line be extended to link with the Canada Line. But, it is coming soon.
Great video, keep it up!
2:13 The guy *actually running* to get the 99
Suppose to walk
3 yrs later, update from UBC in 2020 seems it may take a while… Honolulu HART (Transit Authority) copy the idea of SkyTrain (city councils took a trip to YVR) now cost over-run and incomplete 5 miles. I bet ours will take a while too!
I thought the Skytrain extension should at the very least go to Broadway and Alma, where bus service could at least pick up UBC students and shuttle them from there. Financially there might be a lot of arguments against running a line through the UBC highway, (unless it was a cheaper “at grade” streetcar from there. But it should go hand in hand with a four to six storey density increase along Broadway from Arbutus to Alma. The days of just a ground floor retail space with nothing above it along Broadway should have ended 20 years ago.
Some of the new buildings around Broadway and Balaclava on the north side of the street should be the future of Broadway.
The new wrinkle in the plan is the development of the old military site at Jericho. With a proposal of 30,000 people living in mixed housing there so the line would have to take that into consideration.
i thought about them building a skytrain to UBC, but I dont think it would be a bit difficult because we have so many bus lines going to UBC, so...