![]() However, TransLink’s analysis shows congestion and GHG will continue to rise. The Mayors’ transit vision has been justified in part as a climate action investment. Similarly, the province, feds, TransLink and every Metro Vancouver municipality share ambitious GHG reduction targets, which are also off track. At some $150 million per km, there is no legitimate business case for SkyTrain to far-flung, seaside towns like White Rock and Dundarave despite calls from politicians. This would help the public separate bona fide rapid transit schemes from boondoggles. should follow suit and establish performance requirements for transit investments. This requirement has led to California’s best regional planning ever with additional benefits to public health, farmland protection and affordability. 3 Once plans show reduced commuting distances and increased transportation choices, federal and state transportation funding is unlocked. 2 In California, municipalities are required to develop regional integrated transportation and land-use plans that meet shared greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction targets. The primary explanation: insufficient resident and job density.įorward-thinking states and provinces have established resident and job density targets for different types of transit infrastructure. 1 In numerous situations, the high capital costs did not deliver the desired ridership, revenues or congestion reductions. In the U.S., an analysis of more than 50 rapid transit systems found a litany of poor investments. While Premier Horgan has indicated that the region needs to figure this out, successive provincial governments have helped create this situation. Regionally, we have to understand these business cases before we can get back on track with a shared plan. The second aims to extend the Millennium Line to UBC, an additional multi-billion-dollar cost. The first advocates for a higher-cost SkyTrain to Langley City rather than the approved light rail lines to Newton and Guilford. Just as we are about to leave the station, two new mayors-Surrey’s Doug McCallum and Vancouver’s Kennedy Stewart-have threatened to take us off the rails. It has taken a decade to get all three levels of government on board a new rapid transit deal for Greater Vancouver. This content was presented to the Metro Vancouver Mayors’ Council on November 15, 2018.) (A version of this article originally appeared in the Vancouver Sun on November 6, 2018, written by Alex Boston, Executive Director, Renewable Cities, SFU Morris J.
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