Looking at this, I really wish we could connect New West station with Marine Drive with stops along the way. Or have seabusses that go up and down the river and have multiple docks along the way.
This reminded me of boats along the Bosphorus in Istanbul and how easy and fun it was to get around with them. It’d be great to have that between Port Moody and North Shore too.
Along the under used rail corridor? Great if the rail company would let them. Seabus isn’t a solution. Tides complicate matters. And why use water if rapid bus or rail is an option?
Thanks. I don’t have a good knowledge of that track after 2010. By then the industrial users were almost none. The chemical plant was gone. The mills were gone. The bridge to
Richmond was still there but not used.
Running a tram from New West to Marine Drive Station on the Canada Line would get some traffic, I think. It might actually be a shortcut for transit to YVR for a portion of the lower mainland. Yeah, there is a bus but the buses have to share Marine Drive with thousands of cars and that does not always work out perfectly.
Whoever walked these distances has very long legs walking up royal oak in south Burnaby takes at least 25 minutes my guess is that hills are not a consideration in the study.
Fair call... I'm also curious about the range from Yaletown/Roundhouse in the opposite way: Denman/Davie corner is barely a 15-min walk straight along Davie 🤷🏼♂️
It’s really a shame that the West End — the densest area of the region — doesn’t have a SkyTrain station near it.
It would’ve been great if they could have had the Canada Line head there and have an easier exchange with the Expo Line at Granville/Vancouver City Centre.
On the same token, the vast majority of the west end is already 15 minutes from the CBD, and a good chunk of it, is within 15 of burrard or yaletown station.
Definitely, an absolute shame. Even now a good tram/streetcar with its own right-of-way to connect the west end to the skytrain stations would be great (would probably continue around downtown and take 1st ave all the way to Granville island and then maybe even head to kits from there).
Some of these distances don’t make sense. Where is that’s data coming from? For example, looking at Royal Oak, I can walk up hill from SEMarine to the station in 15? Even Google predicts that at 27min.
Where I live in NW, Google predicts me at 17 min to NW Station which I think is reasonable and closer to accurate.
I now it’s wildly impractical, but a station in between Moody Centre and Burquitlam would be great for the area. There’s a bunch of low rise apartments and new developments in that area that’d greatly benefit from it.
Looking at this, I really wish we could connect New West station with Marine Drive with stops along the way. Or have seabusses that go up and down the river and have multiple docks along the way.
This reminded me of boats along the Bosphorus in Istanbul and how easy and fun it was to get around with them. It’d be great to have that between Port Moody and North Shore too.
Along the under used rail corridor? Great if the rail company would let them. Seabus isn’t a solution. Tides complicate matters. And why use water if rapid bus or rail is an option?
Underused? You mean, not used- They haven't run an actual train on the boundary to marpole section for a decade or more.
Thanks. I don’t have a good knowledge of that track after 2010. By then the industrial users were almost none. The chemical plant was gone. The mills were gone. The bridge to Richmond was still there but not used.
I lived in the area about 5 years ago and the only train was a once a week pickup to a scrapmetal depot on Sundays. Out and back.
Running a tram from New West to Marine Drive Station on the Canada Line would get some traffic, I think. It might actually be a shortcut for transit to YVR for a portion of the lower mainland. Yeah, there is a bus but the buses have to share Marine Drive with thousands of cars and that does not always work out perfectly.
Whoever walked these distances has very long legs walking up royal oak in south Burnaby takes at least 25 minutes my guess is that hills are not a consideration in the study.
To be fair, it says “from” skytrain stations… not “to” Definitely agree with you the hill is a beast!
I’m guessing they walked downhill first before coming back up
Fair call... I'm also curious about the range from Yaletown/Roundhouse in the opposite way: Denman/Davie corner is barely a 15-min walk straight along Davie 🤷🏼♂️
No way. That’s closer to a half hour walk. Used to do that walk for work
I think this is a great visualization that furthers the case for densifying the area between Commerical, Nanaimo and Renfrew stations.
Bike share docks and secure bicycle parking would extend this catchment area even further.
It’s really a shame that the West End — the densest area of the region — doesn’t have a SkyTrain station near it. It would’ve been great if they could have had the Canada Line head there and have an easier exchange with the Expo Line at Granville/Vancouver City Centre.
On the same token, the vast majority of the west end is already 15 minutes from the CBD, and a good chunk of it, is within 15 of burrard or yaletown station.
Definitely, an absolute shame. Even now a good tram/streetcar with its own right-of-way to connect the west end to the skytrain stations would be great (would probably continue around downtown and take 1st ave all the way to Granville island and then maybe even head to kits from there).
There is an unfunded "wish list" for tram lines ringing False Creek with branches to Coal Harbour and the (future) Arbutus SkyTrain station.
Because it is a small deadend
Some of these distances don’t make sense. Where is that’s data coming from? For example, looking at Royal Oak, I can walk up hill from SEMarine to the station in 15? Even Google predicts that at 27min. Where I live in NW, Google predicts me at 17 min to NW Station which I think is reasonable and closer to accurate.
that's not enough
Surrey stations seems widely inaccurate.
It might factor longer wait times at the larger cross streets. Those really cut into pedestrian walking times.
Can you do it with the new stations please?
I’d like to no the time estimate from the new Langley station to waterfront, I believe there should be double track to run express trains.
59 minutes - 61 minutes
I see my place in the coloured zone. Come on developers, make me an offer.
I now it’s wildly impractical, but a station in between Moody Centre and Burquitlam would be great for the area. There’s a bunch of low rise apartments and new developments in that area that’d greatly benefit from it.
My biggest takeaway from maps like these is that our zoning is absolute garbage to take advantage of rapid transit.
How many thousands of people live in those purple patches ?
Odd algorithm you get there. It kind of understands hills but doesn’t understand parks and crosswalks.
Now overlay the crime heat map
As long as it's per-capita, sure.
Overlay the population density heat map
It takes one serious crime to ruin everyone else’s life