SkyTrain detractors should consider the benefits of the technology and not focus solely on the lower cost of building new rapid transit lines with at-grade light rail, Premier Gordon Campbell said.This is the same stuff we've been hearing for years: Surrey, the second largest city in the region with a higher urban density than Burnaby is too "rural" for SkyTrain, yet light rail is still poo-pooed. *sigh*
"You can't have an urban transit system at rural densities," he said. "You have to actually give yourself a chance for transit to make ends meet."
Side note: I don't know of any transit system or road system in North America that breaks even... If transit needs to "make ends meet", I sure hope that the same applies for roads.
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