- 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
- 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