We make this comment every day. We live right behind Brentwood Mall, so we've watched the construction from the get go here.
Their idea of infrastructure is adding a new traffic light to every conceivable block, That is literally their idea of "adding infrastructure". If you ever drive Lougheed, you will see the lights aren't even coordinated, making your commute an insanely long time for a very small subsection of road.
It's absolutely bizarre and infuriating.
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Originally Posted by Mr.HappySilp
To be honest I still don't know who to blame for this, the city, translink or developer. You see tons and tons of apartments being built around major skytrain stations yet the roads, frequency of skytrains haven't change at all. The Canada line is already running over maximum capacity (during rush hour unless you get on at Richmond center you are going to have to wait a couple of trains before you can get on). Same thing is going to happen with the ever green line and the millennium line. And traffic (at least from what other people said) is a gong show leaving from Coq, Port Coq, Langely to Van. Yet with more apartments going up I don't see any improvement plan to our roads or transit systems. The new March 3 skytrains is to replace the one crappy Mark 1 we have so is not really increasing the frequency at all.
On a side note even though the Expo line is built during Expo is not as congested as the other skytrain lines overall (expect for broadway station). i guess the people who built the expo line back then actually plan for expandation and population growth.
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