If you’re looking for a place to live in Vancouver, hop no novo 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.

Com stations na zona portuária e em Yaletown, tanto o Gastown e Yaletown neighborhoods now have much easier access to transit services.

Como a linha vai para o sul ao longo Cambie Rua, , com paradas na nova Vila Olímpica, Broadway, King Edward, Oakridge, Langara Colégio, e Marine Drive, these neighborhoods, também, now have a speedier transit alternative to the No 15 ônibus. E enquanto a cidade de Vancouver is still formulating its long-term development plan for the Cambie corridor, lots of residential development already underway nestas áreas, particularly at the Olympic Village, Broadway, e Oakridge, means more choices of places to live.

Em Richmond, ainda mais residential construction around the new Canada Line stations está em obras. De acordo com um recent article in the Richmond comentário:

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. Ele predicts the area’s population to triple em tamanho, a partir de 41,000 residents today to 120,000 over the next century. A maior parte desse crescimento será nas próximas décadas.

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

Photo courtesy of CanadaLine.com