Dear Editor,
I think there should be a SkyTrain from downtown Vancouver to the Horseshoe Bay ferry terminal, it would be much faster than driving by car and taking the 257 Express bus.
The 257 Express bus (the fastest way of getting from downtown Vancouver to the ferry terminal without a car) is always delayed by traffic on the Stanley Park causeway, and the Lions Gate Bridge. Passengers riding the bus sometimes end up missing their ferry out of Horseshoe Bay.
A SkyTrain line from downtown Vancouver to the terminal would be much faster, and would reduce the amount of traffic travelling between downtown and the terminal, particularly over the bridge.
Less car traffic, less greenhouse gases.
Less greenhouse gases, and B.C. would be on track with achieving net zero emissions by 2050, and Canada would rejoin the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement.
One option is to have it start at Georgia and Granville and run underground, underneath Georgia Street and the Stanley Park causeway, come out of the tunnel underneath the Lions Gate Bridge, cross over the Burrard Inlet underneath the bridge, be elevated along Marine Drive towards Gable Lane and, from there, underground the rest of the way to Horseshoe Bay.
Another option is to (again) have it start at Granville and Georgia, run underground underneath Georgia to Stanley Park, cross underneath Stanley Park, underneath Burrard Inlet to Park Royal mall and be underground the rest of the way to Horseshoe Bay
Our population is growing here in Metro Vancouver, and as our population is growing, so is the amount of traffic. As the amount of traffic is growing, so is the amount of pollution.
Building more SkyTrain routes is always the solution to reducing car traffic.
Ian Dewar McPherson,
North Vancouver
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