London tops a list of best underground rail transit systems, followed by Paris and Moscow
I bet Chicago would top a similar list of elevated rail, and would include Vancouver.
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Interesting. How many miles does our Skytrain system have? London is almost unbelievable compared to us in miles of track and passengers. What we could do here with half that mileage!
30.8 miles long, according to Wikipedia. Was the article ranking it by length? If so, SkyTrain probably doesn't do well, but it's the longest automated light rail system in the world. I would rank it #2 below Chicago's (which I've only read about) because of the fabulous views you see while riding in SkyTrain. Chicago would get top spot because of its long history.
Thanks Richard. No I don't think the article was ranking it by length but I was imagining if we were given 200 miles of track, be it Skytrain or light rail where would we go with it. King George Hwy, Fraser Hwy, and Old Yale Road out to Chilliwack and back would be my vote.
They built the Millennium Line partially along the ... rail right of way, and if you follow it in Google Maps from Pacific Central Station—like I'm doing now—you see that it ends up parallel to S. Fraser Way and Annacis Way then across Colbrook Rd. (which intersects the Fraser Highway) and then it joins up with the line that goes through Newton. Google Maps gets a little fuzzy (literally) after that, so I'm going to give up, and instead seek out a book on the history of Vancouver's rail lines so that I can have a sense of its future.
Does a West Coast Express style commuter rail line make more sense for going past King George out to Chilliwack, since the rail infrastructure is there (and used) already?