It's one thing to start out with short stations, but at least allow for the provision of Montreal Metro length stations that are 500 feet. Unfortunately, the first 2 Vancouver lines only have 80m long stations. While Montreal was able to build 152m long stations right from the start. Then the 3 line that goes to Richmond only has stunted 50m stations. There has been a long running sentiment in Vancouver that BC doesn't ever need or want to have a Montreal or Seattle size city. All one needs to do is look at the larger scale of infrastructure in Montreal & Seattle than whats permitted in little Vancouver.
All the stations could have been built to around 152m or 153m to allow for future long trains, but apparently its better to have short congested trains to match the narrow road system. Its all about demonstrating a reluctance to build proper big city size infrastructure in Greater Vancouver. Since BC, an area that can contain the area of 23 Switzerlands or more than 3 times the area of Italy, it's almost like it doesn't want the world to know that. BC can't reduce the scale of infrastructure in Toronto, Montreal, Calgary & Edmonton, because they are all beyond the reach of the muli-generational Vancouver & Victoria power-structure.
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