TransLink contemplates gondola for SFU
Posted Sep 22, 2010 10:36:15 AM.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – TransLink doesn’t yet know how it would be paid for, or if there’s even demand for a gondola up to SFU.
A request for proposals has been sent out for the project, that if built would leave the Production Way SkyTrain station and head straight up Burnaby Mountain to the campus.
Ken Hardie with TransLink tells us it would replace smoky diesel buses burning fuel on the way up, and riding the brakes down.
“We could potentially move 3,000 people an hour and with the kind of technology they’re currently using at Whistler, we estimate at this point that the trip could be four to six minutes faster than by bus.”
Hardie says it would be green technology similar to Whistler’s Peak 2 Peak Gondola.
A cost still needs to be worked out. TransLink is making a business plan to see if there’s a need for the Gondola. It hopes to have answers in March.
