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Posted 13 April 2011 - 08:12 AM

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Posted 13 April 2011 - 12:15 PM

"I don't want to have SkyTrain cutting our communities in half -that is going to destroy our city," Watts told nearly 500 people at her state of the city speech at the Sheraton Guildford Hotel.

Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems to me that an elevated electric rail line (an extension of SkyTrain) would be less disruptive to a community than grade level light rail.


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Posted 14 March 2012 - 08:15 AM

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Posted 14 March 2012 - 12:21 PM

The Mayor uses Portland, OR as an example of a successful light rail system that has spurred development around its stations. But hello, so has SkyTrain. Portland has MAX light rail, which pretty much covers the area (except for one suburb-to-suburb commuter rail spur called WES) without the need for people to transfer between modes. A SkyTrain extension deeper into Surrey would accomplish the same. Introducing a new mode, in this case surface light rail would mean a forced transfer at the King George station. The Mayor should learn a lesson from the Evergreen Line, which at one point was going to be a cheaper light rail line, but cooler heads prevailed so that it will now be part of the SkyTrain system when it opens in late 2014 or early 2015.


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Posted 08 May 2013 - 09:47 AM

When it comes to transportation candidates agree a light rail project is needed, but disagree on how to fund it.


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Posted 08 May 2013 - 06:00 PM

Although LRT would obviously be a money saver, I would favor extension of SkyTrain tehnology beyond the current end of line to Fraser. Unless the expected ridership just plain doesn't justify SkyTrain, something is always lost in a forced change of vehicles. Remember that they had at one point proposed LRT for the Evergreen Line, but wisely it went back to SkyTrain that is being constructed now.


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Posted 18 November 2014 - 06:11 AM

Saturday was civic elections in the Canadian province North of 49°, and it appears not much will be changing on the Lower Mainland beyond the Peace Arch. In Surrey, what will soon be the largest city in British Columbia, a pro-light rail slate of candidates swept the mayor's office and city council, and the mayor-elect wants it built by 2018.

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Mayor-elect Linda Hepner, formerly Surrey's economic development officer, was elected by a majority of voters despite a three-way contest on Saturday, Nov. 15, 2014. Addressing local media upon her victory, she declared, "You're going to see that light rail on the ground by 2018. I am incredibly confident." She added, "I am building that light rail. We have got to connect this city."

LRT also is supported by outgoing Surrey Mayor Diane Watts, and was included last June in the Metro Vancouver Transport Plan, which received input from numerous mayors and municipalities. A citizens' group, The Better Surrey Rapid Transit, has its own report instead calling for an extension of the SkyTrain Expo Line.

Mayor-elect Hepner has objected to Surrey paying C$144 million (US$127 million) to regional transportation authority TransLink without seeing requisite benefits, such as the Skytrain extension to Surrey itself, which remains a distant prospect.



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Posted 18 November 2014 - 11:32 AM

SkyTrain already runs into Surrey, as its King George terminus is within that city. It would therefore make the most sense to me, especially if Surrey is set to overtake Vancouver in size, to extend SkyTrain beyond King George to new population centers. Light rail would work too, but better it can be on perpendicular routes that would feed into SkyTrain.


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Posted 19 November 2014 - 05:44 AM

One route proposed would be City Centre to Langley via Fraser Highway, which could probably be better as a SkyTrain, but two other proposed routed appear to be feeder lines.

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Posted 31 July 2017 - 10:59 AM

Surrey, BC Now-Leader, 7/27/17:

 


 

Delta’s mayor fights for light rail out to Chilliwack

 

Lower Mainland residents might one day be able hop on a train in Richmond and hop off in Chilliwack – or at least that’s Delta Mayor Lois Jackson’s hope.

 

Story is here.     As long as the population warrants it, I would of course be in favor of continuing the Sky Train technology onward from its current endpoints, whether Richmond or Surrey.  The item seems to point to the need for rapid transit all the way down to White Rock, which is just north of the Canada/US border.



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