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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
Two points, first people do commute from Liverpool Manchester etc to London, not in vast numbers and normally not 5 days a week but the UK is about to cack handedly put in high speed trains at vast expense to reduce the time it takes to commute from the midlands.
Second you dont have to build all over the farmland, the hill sides of the North Fraser, increased density in the town centers of Langly Mission, Chilliwack etc would ramp up if you could catch a decent train into town, the valley is full of single family homes on 1/4 acre lots, it ought to be full of Burnabyish towns, tower blocks around the train station low rise apartments and town house beyond that
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You don't need a new high speed train and a tower in Langley. Just put the tower at Commercial-Broadway, or on Cambie St, or in Kits, or Strathcona. Leverage the existing/near future infrastructure and walkable/bikeable distances.
Langley, Surrey, Mission, Chilliwack are all inferior substitutes. Do it right and put the density in Vancouver where people are closer to their downtown jobs, their friends, their entertainment, their schools, and the beaches instead of making them commute to and from the valley. A condo in Chilliwack isn't a like-for-like substitute for one in Vancouver even if you put in the best train in the world.