Participate in Burnaby Mountain Gondola engagement, Nov. 6–19
Participate in Burnaby Mountain Gondola engagement, Nov. 6–19
You’re invited to take part in public engagement for the Burnaby Mountain Gondola, online and in-person between Nov. 6 and 19!
Take the survey at translink.ca/gondola. We want to hear from you on:
- Understanding trips to/from Burnaby Mountain
- Identifying and minimizing potential environmental impacts
- Design components including cabins, towers, and terminals
Take a virtual 360° ride on your computer
Want a self-guided experience from the comfort of your own home? Watch the virtual, 360° tour.
About the Burnaby Mountain Gondola
The Burnaby Mountain Gondola is part of the Mayors’ Council’s 10-year Access for Everyone Plan. This engagement will support the development of the project’s business case, which includes technical analysis and gondola design.
The Burnaby Mountain Gondola would provide fast, frequent, and reliable service for the 25,000 daily trips made by SFU students, staff, faculty, visitors, and residents of UniverCity – which is expected to have a population of 9,500 in the coming years.
Gondola cabins would depart every minute, carrying more people up the mountain per hour than our current bus system and in about half the time.
Gondolas are safe, better for the environment, and cost-effective, operating in all kinds of weather and free from the constraints of the road (e.g., traffic). This latest phase of engagement is part of the advancement of the business planning stage for the project.
The Burnaby Mountain Gondola is not yet approved or funded. For the project to advance, it must receive approval from the TransLink Board and Mayors’ Council on Regional Transportation and be included in a future investment plan. If approved, TransLink will continue to engage with stakeholders through further design work and implementation.
Seriously? You’re cutting back services because revenues are just not there because people are not using cars and now you’re going to spend millions on a cable ( gondola) car to carry people up to SFU ? The mind boggles
The gondola would benefit 30,000 students, 1000 teachers and many more workers on campus. It would increase campus attractiveness (so we can attract more brilliant minds), as well develop tourism and the economy on campus.
If Translink ran faster, more frequent services like all-day commuter rail, or this gondola, ridership will rise exponentially.
Agree 100!!!!
Waste of funds!!!!
Perhaps we should try the new bus tires first. Let’s see if these new tires work before investing in ridiculous gondolas
That was my thoughts as well.
The gondola will allow approx 40 buses to be redeployed.
Get on with it and build it Enough study already!
Is there a carbon emissions comparison between gondola and bus through their lifecycle, operations and end of life disposal? If the new zero-emission vehicles could work on this route, it would be an expenditure to achieve reliability.
The project sounds glamorous. I wonder about the maintenance cost and ROI of this project. Is Sea-To-Sky making a profit from the gondola operation? Do we expect the BM gondola to be operational while the SFU bus service is suspended due to frozen roads?
Gondolas work all winter at ski resorts. Classes will be on!
Classes are already online, would make no difference if a snow day happened tomorrow.
Not true, there are still some old fashioned profs who won’t go back to online classes post-covid and sfu always waits last minute to announce weather-related cancelations
Sea-To-Sky Gondola makes a very healthy profitable net income from their operations. And yes, the proposed BMG is a 3S types of gondola which are virtually weatherproof, especially as compared to buses and other asphalt-borne transport. For more information on Gondolas for urban transit, have a look at https://www.gondolaproject.com/ This is well-proven transportation technology. We mustn’t forget there is a huge neighbourhood up there, so it’s not just about operating classrooms.
Best project ever. Get it done as soon as possible.
Build it now.
Project seems to be very good. Take necessary approvals and start as early as possible. Best of luck.
I think it is great idea as many students will be benefitted
Sounds fancy but a waste of fund.
Beautiful idea , many people will go there n enjoy beautiful sineries n sunsets n food . It’s very easily get there with gondola coz I didn’t like downhill drive for some reason
There are plenty of these in Europe. Proven tech, proven solution, solves problems specific to SFU, reduces car use, and all the how-to problems have alreeady been solved elsewhere. Go for it.
Yes Tim, great observation. It’s been proven over and over elsewhere in the world. People are always afraid of what they don’t know. It ‘s a way of the future and we as Canadians and Vancouverites should be on it without any doubt.
Is there still a plan for a gondola cabin demo at the Lougheed Mall this week? Noticed the reference was removed from the webpage.