Friday, January 3, 2025

First new generation SkyTrain cars to enter service early 2025

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/new-skytrain-mark-v-cars-entering-service-2025

While a 5 car Mark-V-Skytrain is an improvement, the first 2 lines should have had stations that could eventually accomodate 10 car trains.

https://www.ticorp.ca/projects/surrey-langley-skytrain-project

https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2024/08/15/surrey-langley-skytrain-cost-increase/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/surrey-langley-skytrain-costs-1.7295904

https://canada.constructconnect.com/joc/news/infrastructure/2024/09/contracts-in-place-for-6b-surrey-langley-skytrain-project

https://www.infrastructurebc.com/projects/projects-under-construction/surrey-langley-skytrain-project-sls-project-3

https://globalnews.ca/news/10702469/surrey-langley-skytrain-delay-cost-reaction So many cities are able to have LRT as well as subway & enlevated trains. Greater Vancouver should have never gotten rid of its streetcars & tram-trains.

The 3rd line should have been designed to eventually accommodate at least 8 car trains.