If you’re looking for a place to live in Vancouver, hop en el nuevo Canada Line.

This long-awaited rapid transit service that opened for business esta semana, linking downtown with the airport and the suburb of Richmond, may open up some new housing options.

Con stations en el paseo marítimo y en Yaletown, tanto la Gastown y Yaletown neighborhoods now have much easier access to transit services.

A medida que la línea va hacia el sur por la calle de Cambie, con paradas en la nueva Villa Olímpica, Broadway, King Edward, Oakridge, Langara College, y Marine Drive, these neighborhoods, también, now have a speedier transit alternative to the No 15 autobús. Y mientras que la ciudad de Vancouver is still formulating its long-term development plan for the Cambie corridor, lots of residential development already underway en estas áreas, particularly at the Olympic Village, Broadway, y Oakridge, means more choices of places to live.

En Richmond, aún más residential construction around the new Canada Line stations es en las obras. De acuerdo con un recent article in the Richmond comentario:

As soon as engineers marked locations for the (station’s) concrete pillars, high-rises began to sprout up in Richmond’s City Centre.

By mid-2005, when work on the line was just beginning, 35 high-rise towers were already on the books for downtown Richmond. That number continued to swell….

The Canada Line…prompted city planners to revamp the area plan for City Centre. It predicts the area’s population to triple in size, de 41,000 residents today to 120,000 over the next century. Most of that growth will be in the next few decades.

So if you’re looking for a place to live in Vancouver, hop on the Canada Line. But what the Canada Line corridor looks like today may be very different in the years to come.

Photo courtesy of CanadaLine.com