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Stephen Holland (holland@geop.ubc.ca) wrote:
: The 31 is not a substitute for some form of LRT.  The 31 only runs
: during rush hours.  The 31 doesn't stop west of Oak.  The 31 runs
: infrequently.  It is a good way to get from UBC to the Commercial
: SkyTrain station and back, but it is almost useless as a way for
: getting from one point on Broadway to another quickly.

Well, that's true for *any* bus on Broadway, at least in the afternoon.  I
once got off the 9 at Oak Street so I could walk to the Ridge Theatre on
16th and Arbutus, and not one bus passed me.  But I've found the 31 goes 
fairly quickly in the morning.

: Ideally
: Broadway needs LRT that stops at every major intersection between
: UBC and at least the SkyTrain station, and ideally continues out
: to Burnaby and Coquitlem.

Where would you build it, though?  Underground?  Above ground?  Is there 
any stretch of territory that could handle it, like those railway tracks 
that used to run parallel to Kingsway?

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