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Originally Posted by sonick
For those who are familiar with Tri-Cities area (Port Moody, Coquitlam, Poco), are there any public park and rides that you pay for parking in order to take the train into downtown?
Starting to actively get into the market and wanted to get my bearings of the area and neighborhoods.
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I'm at the western edge of Poco and drive over to the Coquitlam station, it's $3/day or $60/mo. If you are a stickler, there are some months that the daily charge is less than the monthly (especially with WFH now), but one advantage of monthly is that you don't have to remember to pay for parking each day. Those stupid parking tickets are heinous, ~$80 iirc. There aren't a lot of people going in each day, so the lot still has plenty of room. In the before times, the lot would fill up quickly, but there was the overflow by the Rona (which is now a Covid center). I haven't used the Poco station in quite a while, but it's a smaller lot and it can be tough to get out at the end of the day with lot of people leaving onto small roads all at once.
We bought here in 2019, and I really like it. Most people are young/middle age with young families, there's a cute little downtown, but you are close to Coquitlam Center and Fremont (Walmart, CT, HomeDepot), and the Coquitlam River is a great place to spend a sunny day, it's relatively shallow and slow moving in many places so kids can play.