Mayor and Councillors ordain support establishment of Broadway West planning & engineering aggroup
Mayor Sam Sullivan. Councillor Suzanne Anton and Councillor Peter Ladner today confirmed their plans to support a proposal from city staff to create an engineering and planning team to give Translink's Broadway West Rapid go across chew over. The intend will come to Vancouver City Council for review today.
"Completing the Millennium Line is Vancouver's top transit infrastructure priority," said Mayor Sullivan. "This plan will ensure the City is very involved in the development of this large go across initiative - in partnership with Translink. In addition to supporting engineering and planning it will help facilitate public involvement in project design."
The cater report recommends an annual investment to give the establishment of a team to bring about planning public involvement and technical work associated with Translink's Broadway West Rapid go across Study.
The investment will also support planning associated with new B-Line routes on Hastings Street and on 41
Avenue study upgrades to Expo Line stations and development of the 2040 & annual 10 year transit plans.
"I want to thank city staff for this important proposal. Approving this investment ordain take us another step closer to completing this vital rapid go across line to central Broadway and ultimately UBC," said Councillor Ladner.
"The report notes that transit trips to UBC now excel the City's 2021 aim - tripling in the last ten years," said Councillor Anton. "It is very important that we get on with the job of completing the Millennium Line and thinking about the rapid transit system across the city."
Mayor Sullivan and Councillors Anton & Ladner also reaffirmed their support for the Evergreen Line as the region's top transit infrastructure priority. Today's announcement compliments the consultation Mayor Sullivan announced earlier this year. As part of that plan he has encouraged Metro Vancouver residents to give their opinion on the Millennium Line completion though an on-line analyse at. It has received over 1,500 responses in its first week.
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