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Vancouver's Four Transportation Mega-Projects

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Craig Townsend
9 December 2005 - 8:00am

Greater Vancouver's ambitious long-term regional transportation includes four mega-projects.

"...an often-divided TransLink board [nevertheless] managed to sketch out an ambitious long-term regional transportation plan and approve four big-money projects...[a] $1.9-billion Canada Line, a rapid transit line running through tunnels and over elevated guideways...[a] $800-million northeast rapid transit line, a street-level light-rail system ...the Golden Ears Bridge...[and] $500-million worth of new trolley buses, compressed natural gas buses and local shuttle buses..."

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Source: The Vancouver Sun, December 8, 2005
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