May I ask, what city of Surrey plans excite you the most for future growth?

Homelessness will continue to increase without socialized housing options which have been rarely built here for a long time. Even the 'affordable' rentals are far outside what people on disability can afford (I am personally disabled and can only stay in a house because its rent controlled, otherwise there is basically nothing within my meagre 1600 per month budget for ALL expenses)

YES 😩

A new bridge would of been built by now if the stupid NDP didn’t kill the project and flush 150 million dollars of taxpayers money down the drain

Give it up

As of rn, the best transit mode is by car, and electric car or phev with regen as going down the mountain is almost a free ride to go up. Tbh, I did find the bus to be better when it needed to detour going down. After a while and the newness of the bus and translink fix for a while, I got back to my automobiles, I just hope they will have a parking down the mountain, and thus increase the ridership, I do think they will get 50% of those crowd and with a parking and visitors etc invrease will be 2x thus 2k people per hour is a easy mark, perhaps on average year round considering holidays a bit less.

As of rn, the best transit mode is by car, and electric car or phev with regen as going down the mountain is almost a free ride to go up. Tbh, I did find the bus to be better hence it needed to detour going down. I just hope they will have a parking down the mountain, and thus increase the ridership, I do think they will get 50% of those crowd and with a parking and visitors etc invrease will be 2x thus 2k people per hour is a easy mark, perhaps on average year round considering holidays a bit less.

Good ideas. Now all we need is the funding to proceed with them.

Hey man, great video. Very informative. My friend recommended this channel to me and he did not let me down haha

Cry me a river. I live on Vancouver Island in Campbell River - BC Ferry Namaimo to Horseshoe Bay - $252.20 Return for car and two adults. We have a single track rail line and right of way but it's been abandoned. The history of an island railway started with the colony of Vancouver Island joining British Columbia in 1866, Canadian Confederation in 1867, and the incorporation of British Columbia (BC) into Canada in 1871. The terms of union required that, within two years, the federal government was to start the construction of a railway from the "seaboard of British Columbia", joining the new province and Victoria with the railway system of Canada. On its part, British Columbia was to grant a band of public land of up to 32 kilometres (20 mi) in width along either side of the railway line to the federal government for it to use in furtherance of the construction of the railway. The Pacific terminus of the railway was not specified, but the proposed plan would have the railway cross the Rockies by the Yellowhead Pass and reach the BC coast at Bute Inlet. It would cross Sonora Island and Quadra Island and reach Vancouver Island by a bridge across Seymour Narrows. the Canadian Pacific Railway placed a low priority on construction of an island railway, as it had low traffic potential and would duplicate an existing 1873 steamer service. all for the want of a horse shoe nail

Hey, love to see your video. Im in grade 12 right now and don't know what to do for my CLC, your video inspired and gave me the idea

They should just ask the engineers at Bombardier to research new trains that can achieve maglev speeds without needing wheels for stability. 😅

this is the stupidest thing the NDP is doing ever it's now 2024 almost 2025 and when the liberals were in power they were starting to put in a new 10 lane bridge where the new tunnel will go this would have started a few years back and would have opened this year instead the NDP won the election and shut down the bridge and decided to build another tunnel which will only be 8 total lanes and won't be ready for 10 more years and when it opens it will already be out of date brilliant brand new and out of date and we have to pay for this stupidity

70 years ago my family lived in South Burnaby and during the summer we used to go swimming at Deas Island -- actually there was a sand bridge connecting the island so it was not really an island. There was a secluded sandy beach at the east end of the Deas slough which was never crowded. In those days Richmond was known as "Lulu Island" bascially rural and agricultural with few inhabitants. I think the Steveson to Ladner ferry still operated in the 1950s. There was also a ferry service between Steveson and Sidney on Vancouver Island.

Just throwing it out there. Once the new tunnel is done, can we not re-fit the old tunnel to run trains, busses, bikes etc, etc?

I love and agree with almost everything you say, except Slip-lanes! Can you explain WAY more why we are UNmaking them? I love them, but could be convinced!

Since you brought it up, please do a video on passenger rail on Vancouver ISLAND!

Love the way you get your Crayola box out, like Bowinn Ma with her purple crayon to Metrotown, and blithely draw three technicolor connections under Burrard Inlet. You even build a heavy rail link under Stanley Park to join BC Rail with CP at Waterfront. The way the current govt operates cancelling bridges and dragging its feet on a Deas Tunnel and Second Narrows Bridge these things will never get built.

if dutch can do it we can to

This should have been built a decade ago but I hope it’s get done eventually

We need to think bigger, and not just restricted to Vancouver, we need rail service from vancouver all the way to kelowna, and build stations along the way. Also build new cities around those stations. If we can go from vancouver to kelowna using bullet train speed in about 60-90 minutes, it would be tolerable for people to use it for work commute.

Wonder If they could revitalize the old tunnel as a transit and pedestrian only tunnel 🤔 - I night not be thinking right tho, but would if they introduced tolls for passenger vehicles, exemptions for work and cargo vehicles

Not from Vancouver but so glad to see it investing so much in its transit, originally from Seattle so when visiting could take the cascades train up to Vancouver

There were plans to increase speed on Amtrak Cascades but got slowed and downgraded 😢 (which is of the essence because high speed rail probably won't happen for a while) these plans could have made it faster than or more competitive driving which is very important, as there is great demand for trains in Cascadia and Vancouver, Seattle, and Portland have all been investing heavily in rapid transit.

Love your energy btw great videos

As somebody originally from Seattle, trust proper elevated rail like vancouver is better than light rail, but each one has its purpose 🙂

Dude at 6:00 keeps saying "frasier" instead of Fraser.

Bro you could talk about anything and it would sound interesting. Really like the presentation style and the motivation behind what you're doing!

Right so, is there an anti-stop-sfu-gondola group? I'll join. People are so selfish, honestly...

I really don't buy the idea of street-level LRT working in Surrey on those very busy roads. I think Skytrain through Newton is a better idea. Maybe LRT could work in Vancouver though. There's an idea I've had that might work with your routes though. I've wondered if it might be possible to get the state of Washington to chip in some funds if the two routes going south in your plan were connected east and west, with lines going all the way to the border. That would create a transit route that would allow residents of Point Roberts to reach Blaine very conveniently and quickly, as well as letting people from Richmond and Tsawwassen to reach Surrey and White Rock. I think this could also have an affect on housing costs in Metro Van, because it would be easier for people to live farther from downtown in places that are currently not very populated, and still get around easily. People would start moving out of the denser cities and living farther out where homes are more affordable, in turn making homes in the denser areas less expensive by decreasing demand. What do you think?

This young man is doing the hard work, explaining the things people need to know. I don't think this will ever happen. It's sad that our region is the size of a postage stamp and yet doesn't have frequent high capacity electric regional rail.

Let's extend the idea of regional rail to include ferry. Passenger only ferries up and down the coast ... Waterfront stn, Victoria harbour, Nanaimo, Bowen Island, Gibson's, Powell River, Comox. Other areas run trains, Vancouver is a coastal city, let's use the water.

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I like your channel and topics. I just like to share my feeling. I have a hard time, trying to look at your eyes, when you speak. May be you are thinking you are giving a speech on stage? I am not sure but I believe treating the camera lens as a single audience will change the way you speak, like the last, "Thank you" you said is very sincere and you look great!

A true legend was born with this video. Keep up the good work.

*cries in Northern BC*

I miss the days when BC Ferries were considered an integral part of our highway system, especially northern routes.

Great video, very interesting. I am from Toronto and I wish GO transit would expand much much faster, we are really missing out on what could be a game changing experience to regional metro. high frequency and fast. Go trains are nice, but they sure are lumbering lunks of metal. 53 Minutes to go less than 50km to Whitby from downtown all stops. Ding ding ding ding ding ding as they crawl into and out of the stations hehe. 15 minutes headways are nice. Good luck in BC!

Do you think there would be any possibility of getting the state of Washington to chip in some funds if we added a section to our rail transit network that allowed residents of Point Roberts to get on a train and go almost directly to Blaine? Say, if there was a Skytrain extension from Richmond to Tsawwassen, another from North Surrey down through Newton and to Douglas, and a connection between them from Delta to Newton for example? Maybe running trains directly from Tsawwassen to Douglas for the benefit of Point Roberts residents, if only at certain times of the day.

Personally, I think if there was train service out to places like Abbotsford and Chilliwack or even Hope, down to White Rock and the Peace Arch, down to Point Roberts, and up to Squamish or even Whistler or Pemberton, this would be the single most effective thing to reduce housing costs in Vancouver. Be it more Skytrain, more West Coast Express, or both. The simple ability to easily and quickly get to downtown from these much more affordable places would have a lot of people moving out of Metro Van, reducing housing demand enormously, bringing prices down. The way to make it more affordable to live in this region is to give people the means to spread out more, and get across much larger distances without having to be in traffic or on crowded busses for hours.

I love Regional Bus networks. I live in Kelowna and have family in Salmon arm. Vernon Transit runs a #90 bus from Downtown vernon to UBCO 7 days a week and vernon runs a #60 as far as enderby every day except sunday, Salmon arm runs a bus to Enderby on Wednesday only... So for under $10 I can take myself my wife and our 5 year old son to see my mom in salmon arm if we go on a wednesday or any other non sunday day if we have my mom come and pick us up in enderby. as someone who doesn't own and never plans to own or drive a car the more transit we can have the better because I like to be able to get to the places I want to go and for the most part 99% of places I can get to by transit and for the 1% of places I need to go that transit can't get me I save enough to use a taxi service to get to. Also I love trains, I'm just sad that my wife doesn't feel the same way about trains and I had trouble even convincing her that during a recent vancouver trip MORE time on skytrain with our son was better for him than less.

I Would love to come and ride on this train... I would especially love to ride if Naslund Morrison and Bertuzzi were on it with me... Can you imagine a West Coast Express rides West coast express day.

I was just speaking to someone about wishing our train infrastructure would be available again for passenger service. It’s a great way to travel & opens up communities to tourism & affordable travel.

Yeah as long as it helps. It’s better for vehicles to keep moving than just sitting around and idling. 🎉

No, for many reasons & cities like Kelowna said no to having tracks laid. They were thinking Kamloops (which does have rails) would be the busier city but that didn't happen. They even built hotels outside the city center. Also, there will never be a mainland highway from Vancouver to Sechelt even though it's possible, scale of the project is insanely massive & costs many tens of billions Look into the oil crisis in the 70's , oil companies had record profits due to 'scarcity' so with these profits they bought up solar companies & closed them, they also bought the railroads all over North America & dismantled them just enough it wouldn't be profitable to fix them. Such a shame, corporate greed. They even did studies & found putting more red lights & stop signs made cars burn gas = more profits for oil companies $$$. Europe is smarter & has roundabouts

I'm sure they'll widen the other crossings too, meanwhile telling you there isn't the money for a public transit project

Given the size of Canada, I think it’s ridiculous that there are so few train routes that are accessible to people. So instead ALL of our highways are vastly undersized because we are all forced to drive EVERYWHERE and for hours at a time

Go Transit started in the 1960s, so it has a huge leg up when you consider commuter trains progress slowly. And a huge advantage: Toronto doesn't have a port with meaningful cargo. So when land values rose between passenger tracks and shore, both CN and CP were quick to want to move freight to the suburbs so that land could be sold/developped. (started with CN tower). With freight moved to the north, it was a no brainer for CN to sell the portion of Kingston sub between Pickering and Union Station and the tracks from Union to Oakville (where its freight tracks from suburbs rejoin the main lilne) and CP sold the weston sub portion that it no longer used. When the line to Barrie was abandonned, it was a no brainer to donate it to Metrolinx (which is something that should happen to the ex BC Rail line from north Van to Prince George). (but a connection from North van rail terminal to downtown Vancouver needs to be made to be efficient). Moving the port of Vancouver would be rather expensive. So you are stuck with port freight operations near the city, and you are also stuck as being a vital artery to the railroads and the port, so neither CN or CP will let you interfere with their long, heavy, slow 1950s diesel traisn with 1950s signaling. Added complexity: east of Mission on both shores, the tracks are shared between CN and CP for unidirectional running with convoluted arrangements for engineers. I think that the Rocky Mountaineer has a special arrangement to move in contra flow on the CP tracks but at the expense of waiting long periods on sidings to let combo of CP and CN trains pass in opposite directions. Building your own tracks next to the freight lines is the most efficient way (along with your own bridges that could be high enough to avoid neexing swing/lift bridges). But this can also be done progressively. Think about building up to Port Coquitland and offering frequenct servoce there and same service beyond, and later extend your own tracks to Pit Meadowns, and eventually Mission where you can then have frewquent service along the whole line. Once you have good frequencies to Coquitlam and see ridership increase, it greatly helps justify the investment for the lext leg compared to having a huge leap of faith by investing for frequent service all the way to mission.

infrastructure is all to old

Sounds great in theory - like all grand plans however unless it can be sustained through fares, it’s just another money pit for taxpayers.