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[quote user="enr2099"][quote user="futuremodal"] <p> What's one little bridge accross to Burnaby compared to that?</p><p>Hey, if the BC government needed to they could have built a union bridge, maybe a combination rail/highway bridge to facilitate that rail connection. Don't they need another highway bridge over the narrows as well?</p><p>[/quote]</p><p>Up north they have land to spare. We're talking about building a rail line through two very densly population city centres downtown Vancouver and right through North Vancouver. </p><p>In order to avoid the CN connection a bridge would have to be built across Burrard Inlet from Downtown Vancouver right into the heart of North Vancouver. The approachs to the bridge would be built on prime real estate, it would NEVER happen. The NIMBY's would never allow it. If a bridge was built east of the CN Second Narrows Bridge a connection would still have to be built through North Vancouver the costs would be astronomical, and again the NIMBY's would have a field day. CN has an existing connection at either end of of the BCR and either the RR or the government would have to spend little to no money by using the existing connections, it makes perfect finnancial sense that way. </p><p>[/quote]</p><p>Question: Does the BCRail/CN connection itself have a CN/CP or CN/BNSF connection further down the line? What I'm wondering is if it would have been possible to build a parallel line alongside the CN ROW (perhaps using the Canadian version of eminent domain) between the BCRail end of track and either CP or BNSF? That alone would've been more practical than an expensive connection through the heart of urbania.</p><p>I also have heard about plans for a new highway bridge between North Vancouver and Vancouver/Burnaby. Would there have been room along a highway ROW for a rail connection?</p>
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