If you’re looking for a place to live in Vancouver, lumukso sa ang bagong Canada Line.

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

Sa stations sa Waterfront at sa Yaletown, parehong Gastown at Yaletown neighborhoods now have much easier access to transit services.

Bilang linya naging timog sa kahabaan ng Cambie Street, may mga hinto sa bagong Olympic Village, Broadway, Hari Edward, Oakridge, Langara College, at Marine Drive, these neighborhoods, masyado, now have a speedier transit alternative to the No 15 bus. At habang ang lungsod ng Vancouver is still formulating its long-term development plan for the Cambie corridor, lots of residential development already underway sa mga lugar na ito, particularly at the Olympic Village, Broadway, at Oakridge, means more choices of places to live.

Sa Richmond, kahit na mas residential construction around the new Canada Line stations sa gawa. Ayon sa isang recent article in the Richmond Suriin:

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. Ito predicts the area’s population to triple ang laki, mula sa 41,000 residents today to 120,000 over the next century. Karamihan ng na paglago sa susunod na ilang mga dekada.

So if you’re looking for a place to live in Vancouver, hop sa 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