If you’re looking for a place to live in Vancouver, नई पर हॉप कनाडा रेखा.

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

साथ stations तट पर और yaletown में, दोनों Gastown और Yaletown neighborhoods now have much easier access to transit services.

लाइन Cambie स्ट्रीट के साथ दक्षिण में चला जाता है, नई बजे बंद हो जाता है साथ ओलिंपिक विलेज, ब्रॉडवे, किंग एडवर्ड, Oakridge, Langara कॉलेज, और मरीन ड्राइव, these neighborhoods, भी, now have a speedier transit alternative to the No 15 बस. और शहर की है, जबकि वैंकूवर is still formulating its long-term development plan for the Cambie corridor, lots of residential development already underway इन क्षेत्रों में, particularly at the Olympic Village, ब्रॉडवे, और Oakridge, means more choices of places to live.

में रिचमंड, और भी अधिक residential construction around the new Canada Line stations कार्यों में है. एक के मुताबिक recent article in the रिचमंड समीक्षा:

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, से 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