Vancouver Evergreen Line

[officedweller]

Nice video of the Coquitlam section - from near the pic shown in the last post, above.

As of yesterday, this video from BCNEWSVIDEO shows that there are 7 sections left to go on Pinetree Way.

[video=youtube;s_JisSnp7mA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_JisSnp7mA[/video]

 

[officedweller]

From Evergreen Facebook:

Shrubs in North Road median - (Coquitlam must be paying for it!)

https://www.facebook.com/evergreenline/photos_stream

https://www.facebook.com/evergreenline/photos_stream

https://www.facebook.com/evergreenline/photos_stream

https://www.facebook.com/evergreenline/photos_stream

https://www.facebook.com/evergreenline/photos_stream

 

[officedweller]

North Road guideway from Evergreen Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/evergreenline

 

[officedweller]

From SSP:

Have a chance today to walk and check out the progress of the construction. I always feel the most interesting segment is between the tunnel portal to Coquitlam Central station, as they are far away from major roads and fewest photos are available...

Coquitlam Central Station

This shows how far the track is going to go, where the guideway on far-right will be long enough to park a train and serve as a spur (pocket) track. The gap between track 2 and 3 seems pretty small to put another platform in there..

Track switches west of the station

Another view west of the station. Although its elevated, the guideway is quite low

Elevated section west of the switches

Tracks going over existing warehouses

Same location, looking west

Elevated tracks along Aberdeen Avenue

Trasition to at-grade. This is probably the slowest guideway segment other than the tunnel

This is suppose to be the entrance to VSF or future site of Falcon Station? The track is in the trench on the right side of image so can't really see anything here

Tracks leading to Inlet Centre Station. The station will have more of the feel of an underground station than at-grade

Inlet Centre Station east entrance

West station house

A peek of the platforms, which can be accessed by both up and down escalators. Seems like Inlet Centre station would have a grand total of 8 escalators

The infamous elevated segment west of the station.

Transition to at-grade along Golden Spike Lane, looking east

Same location looking west, showing Moody Centre Station

Moody Centre Station

Close up view of the station

Moody Centre platform, looking east

Looking west toward the entrance

Station entrance, with up and down escalators to concourse level

Dual escalators from concourse to platform

One of the two access point to WCE platform (the other one is an elevator behind the stairs). Not sure if this will provide enough capacity...

Looking west toward pocket track

Emergency walkway under construction. Seems to have quite a big gap between the tracks

 

[officedweller]

From SSP:

my pictures from Sunday March 1, 2015

Coquitlam City Hall SkyTrain Construction - last portion of guideway left to be built.

Coquitlam Larfarge Lake Douglas Station

Coquitlam City Hall SkyTrain Construction - another view.

The gantry will be disassembled this week.
The elevated guideway will be complete when that last gap is filled.

 

[officedweller]

The last segment was raised yesterday:

There's a short video recently posted on EGRT Facebook page.

"The last segment of the Evergreen Line elevated guideway has been installed! Construction crews celebrate as the final segment of the elevated guideway is lifted in Coquitlam."

Here's the video:

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=962243293822175&theater

https://www.flickr.com/photos/tranbc/with/16716005605/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/tranbc/with/16716005605/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/tranbc/with/16716005605/

 

[BurlOak]

I wonder if everyone who cares about transit in Toronto feels a bit depressed with every Vancouver post.

Who would have thought that if you plan the right type of transit, then it can be built fast and affordable and with no public opposition?

 

[officedweller]

There was some opposition late in the game (after construction started) by residents of the condo towers shown here - to the elevated section where the guideway crosses the CP rail tracks.
They came to an agreement that more trees would be planted to screen the line from the residents.

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The infamous elevated segment west of the station.

Transition to at-grade along Golden Spike Lane, looking east

The current hold-up is the TBM - they encountered some soft soils and are behind schedule. The soils caused a few small sinkholes when the TBM stopped for maintenance, which had residents above the TBM worried and in a panic.

But yes, this particular project has gone smoothly - mainly because it was initially promised back in 1998 or so, and the Canada Line jumped the queue.

 

[junctionist]

I wonder if everyone who cares about transit in Toronto feels a bit depressed with every Vancouver post.

Who would have thought that if you plan the right type of transit, then it can be built fast and affordable and with no public opposition?

I don't feel depressed at all. We're building a lot of high-quality transit. But that's a good point. A Skytrain-style system in the suburbs would have had less opposition than LRT. People trust grade separation--both drivers and transit users.

 

[BurlOak]

There was some opposition late in the game (after construction started) by residents of the condo towers shown here - to the elevated section where the guideway crosses the CP rail tracks.
They came to an agreement that more trees would be planted to screen the line from the residents.

I don't suppose that the cost of planting trees is $150M/km - the rough difference between tunnelled and elevated.

 

[officedweller]

From SSP:

The roof is going up at Lafarge Lake Station. I took this picture earlier today:

Lincoln Station is coming along rather nicely. Note the track ties being laid out on the guideway:

 

[officedweller]

Pic facing Lincoln Station site from Evergreen Line facebook - a bit dated since the webcam shows the superstructure already erected:

https://www.facebook.com/evergreenline/photos_stream

http://wcs.pbaeng.com/projects/R1_Transit

http://wcs.pbaeng.com/projects/R1_Transit

http://wcs.pbaeng.com/projects/R1_Transit


From SSP:

Nice to see the tracks and switches getting installed:

http://wcs.pbaeng.com/projects/R1_Transit

An update for Moody Centre Station, taken by me on Thursday:

There's also a goldmine of photos (that I think haven't been posted here yet) from the Ministry of Transportation's flickr account:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/tranbc/sets/72157632226282626/

Check out that LIM rail!

Inside the tunnel:

Burquitlam (northbound platform):

More tunnel goodness:

Ring segments. The site is located on the block of Barnet Hwy, Clarke Ave, and Douglas St.

Northbound view from Burquitlam:

North of Lincoln Station:

 

[officedweller]

Lincoln Station roof being built - webcam pics today:

http://wcs.pbaeng.com/projects/R1_Transit

http://wcs.pbaeng.com/projects/R1_Transit

http://wcs.pbaeng.com/projects/R1_Transit

 

[officedweller]

From SSP:

Took a walk last Sunday along the eastern portion of Evergreen Line:

Lafrage Lake-Douglas Station

Guideway between Lafrage and Lincoln

Coquitlam Central Station

Guideway along Aberdeen Ave. This section was still under construction when I was here 2 months ago, but its now completed.

East end of VSF. This was only a pile of dirt two months ago.

Inlet Centre Station with glasses and escalators installed.

Moody Centre Station

West of Moody Centre, column for future Moray-Clarke connector?

I don't think you can get this close to the track elsewhere in the system?

Not sure if this is the site for future station in west Port Moody.

Elevated guideway east of north tunnel portal.

North portal plus the new route for Trans-Canada Trail beside the guideway.

Great shots, thanks!

and the spacing of those 3 columns explains the wide separation of the guideways, as someone mentioned before.

Here's another Coquitlam Central pic from BC Trans Flickr:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/tranbc/17254801132/

 

[officedweller]

From SSP:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/tranbc/17256573235/in/photostream/