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In article <4mo2o2$5s8@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>, petert@unixg.ubc.ca (Peter Thomas Chattaway) writes:
-> Stephen Holland (holland@geop.ubc.ca) wrote:

-> : 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?

Ideally a mass transit line along Broadway would be either underground
or elevated, but this becomes very expensive.  It could be put at
ground level if traffic lights were keyed to give priority to trains.
I'm not sure if theis in technically feasible or not.  This sort of
planning needs to be done now, before more a large amount of new
construction takes place.  The more new buildings that are put it the
harder it will be to find room for LRT (or whatever) lines.  It is
much easier to design a building complex around a mass transit line
than the other way around.

 
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