https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-rent-november-2021
As Vancouver continues to get even more expensive, you just don't get the same quality of urban infrastructure that you would in several other major cities in Canada and around the world. Just because a city gets so much rain, that doesn't mean that almost everything should be watered down to be inept or backwards.
With some CGI one could pretend what a 4 car train would look like on a double track Airport_station. Unfortunately, its just a 2 car train on a single track that looks more like a movie set prop.
A proper provision for a double track station that could ultimately accommodate an 8 to 10 car train just didn't fit with the watered down agenda.
"Unlike Bombardier ART trains, the Hyundai Rotem trains will not be operated as longer four- or six-car trains. Through inserting a middle "C" car at the articulated joint between two end cars, available capacity will be similar to a four-car Mark II or a six-car Mark I train. The Canada Line's station platforms are expandable to 50 metres (160 ft) in length to accommodate these future three-car trains; the five busiest stations are already 50 metres (160 ft) in length. The Canada Line has a designed future capacity of 15,000 pphpd when operating three-car trains at two-minute headways." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkyTrain_rolling_stock#Hyundai_Rotem_EMU
It just doesn't make sense to construct a multi-billion dollar train that can only be a 3rd of the length of a 500 foot long Montreal Metro train. Apparently, Canada, BC and Vancouver just don't see the need to have a Montreal or Seattle size city at this end of the country. Just keep watering down the scale of the infrastructure and hope that no one asks where all the billions of dollars went over the past several decades.
Given that Vancouver cancelled its freeway plans decades ago and then refused to even expand its street capacity, a rail network on the scale of the Toronto_subway or the Montreal_Metro should have been built. An LRT system could have been designed to have a provision to have much longer stations for future demand.
Given the high cost of rail transit lines, just having a 2, 3 or 4 car train is more than shortsighted, its utterly foolish and inept! There should always be a provision for a 10 car train as future demand increases.
