• The 11-kilometre Northwest Route will link neighbourhoods in Burnaby, Port Moody and Coquitlam.

• The Northwest Route will connect with Skytrain, West Coast Express and TransLink buses.

• Final details on the route will be finalized after detailed planning and design work, which will include stakeholder consultations. Based on the business case, we see the route from:

o       The existing Lougheed SkyTrain station

o       Run as an elevated guideway along North Road to Clarke Road

o       From Clarke Road, there will be sub-surface alignment running north of Como Lake Avenue, emerging at the bottom of the Clarke Road hill

o       The Line will transition to at-grade adjacent to the Canadian Pacific railway (CP rail) line

o       The alignment will continue to the Ioco Road overpass where it would run eastward

o       The Line will then transition back to an elevated guideway northward along the Lougheed Highway to Pinetree Way

o       From the vicinity of Pinetree Way the Line will turn northward to a terminus just north of Guildford Way (Douglas College).

Northwest Route Benefits

(Business Case Summary)

• Development
• Development has already taken place in anticipation of rapid transit

• More near term, residential development anticipated

• Supported by existing community planning

• System Integration
• Greatest system integration with existing SkyTrain

• Grade separated from existing traffic

• Safer, more reliable

• Environment 
• Greatest reduction in car trips

• Environmental assessment process second most advanced due to similarities to LRT corridor and earlier public consultation

• Stakeholders
• Stakeholder issues are better understood in the northwest due to prior public consultation work done for LRT and SkyTrain

• Consultation would be required regarding features of ALRT on this corridor

• Schedule
• Anticipated schedule – completion August 2014

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Northwest Route Map web link: http://www.th.gov.bc.ca/evergreen_line/index.htm