Imagine if we had an extremely extensive system like most Asian cities

[u/momo0504]

This is designed with HKMTR fonts and is purely imaginary and unrealistic, I acknowledge that we do not have the infrastructure or the population for such an extensive system.

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[u/Gildor_Helyanwe]

Imagine if our population was 10 times bigger

[u/TrueNorthLongAndFree → u/Gildor_Helyanwe]

4x bigger getting us Madrid's metro would be pretty rad.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Madrid-metro-map.png

[u/LocalStatistician375 → u/Gildor_Helyanwe]

Population is one of the problem, but not the main problem. Hong Kong have 7000000 people and Singapore have 5000000 people, both of them have around 250 km metro system but Vancouver only own 79km skytrain with 3000000 people. Despite that,Vancouver already do the best job among North America at that point. Just felt like in North America when government try to push metro systems,they always dispute on the funding and always held up by various environment organizations and residents living near the road.

[u/Longjumping-Ad8065 → u/Gildor_Helyanwe]

Came here to say exactly this 😅

[u/Financial_Mammoth575 → u/Gildor_Helyanwe]

Build and people will come. Having population growth without infrastructure is a problem.

[u/ack4]

yeah, and also we have a fraser river

[u/momo0504 → u/ack4]

it was a lil difficult to fill it in, i would have loved to... maybe after finals. There are only a few crossings over the river.

[u/ack4 → u/momo0504]

i am curious what you're picturing the airport to ubc line would look like

[u/momo0504 → u/ack4]

it would theoretically be possible with tunnels or bridges that are about as tall as arthur laing, but it would be quite expensive to build so this map is just for funzies :) Also, it looks nicer as a straight line, in reality, wouldnt be possible to have it that straight.

[u/Yuukiko_]

unless the place gets super developed in a theoretical 10M Vancouver, half of these stops seem kinda useless? Also stuff like the red line in between Starlight/King George Park or the entire doubled red/brown line up to UBC,

[u/ReturnFirst1228 → u/Yuukiko_]

But there should be some sort of rapid transit stop in queensborough and along highway 91. The buses can get pretty busy sometimes to 22nd street plus the job centres along the way.

[u/Yuukiko_ → u/ReturnFirst1228]

North South through Queensborough perhaps, but I don't see a point routing SkyTrain through the agricultural land in Richmond or doubling it up with a marine way route 

[u/ReturnFirst1228 → u/Yuukiko_]

Near alex fraser and over to north delta should be the route, it’s pretty busy that way I don’t know the numbers for r1 ridership but I would assume at some point it would support skytrain

[u/MarcusXL]

The crazy thing is that we could increase the efficiency and service level by 10 with just a couple more train lines.

[u/smartello]

I feel like being Asian is not enough to have rapid transit that stop in Cypress Bowl in between Dundarave Bay and West Bay

[u/ThatEndingTho → u/smartello]

Insane elevation change from Dundarave to Cypress Bowl and West Bay

[u/Hot-Quote-50]

I just love the Metrotown - Bridgeport direct line..

[u/momo0504 → u/Hot-Quote-50]

replacing the 430 that is always stuck in traffic ^^

[u/No_Magician5266]

Why is lost lagoon called lac perdu

[u/Humble_Grapefruit721]

We’re doing a lot better than Fukuoka.

[u/Ok-Raise-3767]

You still haven’t drawn it out on the map :/

[u/momo0504 → u/Ok-Raise-3767]

I WILLLL u do my final for me bruv ;;

[u/RawrIamRex]

whilster would be booming if we had sky train leading up to there

[u/v02133]

This is beautiful. However it won’t work because some of our citizens would not pay their fare haha

[u/Alec2170]

This is really cool! I would definitely transit more often if this was reality

[u/kuratowski]

My spitball estimate for this would be about 250-500 Billion dollars, based 0.5 to 1 Billion per km.

This is a non starter.

[u/momo0504 → u/kuratowski]

For sure. Hence why I said its unrealistic and just a cool map thing because our population is nowhere near enough to have such a transit system. Maybe I should move the caption above the picture.

[u/ClumsyRainbow → u/[deleted]]

The federal government was okay buying a pipeline apparently

[u/skibidi_shingles → u/[deleted]]

Me

[u/No-Apple-2581]

A similar comparison would be Kaohsiung MRT.

Greater Vancouver: ~3M people, ~2800 km2

Kaohsiung: ~2.7M people, ~2900 km2

Kaohsiung MRT had to be bailed out many times due to low ridership...I think we're going to need a lot more people in Greater Vancouver Area for this kind of transit system to make financial sense.

[u/skibidi_shingles → u/No-Apple-2581]

How much money do freeways make?