So much money has be wasted over the years and a good part of it should have gone towards proper regional transportation planning & development.
https://globalnews.ca/news/11123828/metro-vancouver-cost-savings/
Crucial funds that could have gone towards a train tunnel by the LGB and the new D Island Tunnel.
https://vancouversun.com/news/metro-vancouver-board-begins-spending-review
A regional network of bus-bridges still isn't part of any official transit plan. Apparently, its better to just funnel buses onto the existing narrow bridges in the region.
https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/02/21/metro-vancouver-regional-district-22m-budget-cuts
Despite most of the bridges being too narrow & inefficient for public transit, the SkyTrain was deliberately built to have stations that are much shorter than the Montreal Metro & TTC Subway stations.
BC has such a reluctant mentality towards thinking big. Thus, a chokepoint or congestive planning mentality has been firmly entrenched.
Long trains & bridges wide enough to properly accommodate bus lanes & HOV lanes would actually help to reduce transportation congestion.
Who knows where all the billions of dollars went over the past several decades, because not enough funds went towards a proper level of transportation infrastructure.
https://metrovancouver.org/about-us/budgets-and-financial-plans
Of course Greater Vancouver was one of the first urban regions to get rid of its streetcars & interurban tram-trains & it will likely be to be one of the last cities to bring them back.
