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Potential routes for Chilliwack-Vancouver-Whistler high-speed rail: UBC study

For their final group project in December 2020, published on the university’s blogs website, the UBC Geography students dived into the topographical and terrain feasibility, with one route option, as envisioned by MVX, following the Sea to Sky Highway. This option could take advantage of the existing railway right-of-way, even though it “may not be able to accommodate the highest speeds from West Vancouver to Squamish due to the winding nature of the rail.” Following the highway corridor could potentially carry a lower construction cost and shorter construction timeline as “less modifications would have to be made to the landscape in order to make the route suitable for a higher speed commuter train.” The segment of the route between Horseshoe Bay and Squamish would carry slower speeds, while overall travel times could be reduced with higher speeds in the segments from Squamish to Whistler and Chilliwack to Vancouver.

UBC students push Chilliwack-Whistler rail line forward with new study

  VANCOUVER Inspired by a proposed express rail line from Chilliwack to Whistler, a group of University of B.C. students decided not to wait for the province to get up to speed and do a feasibility study instead, they did one themselves. Their paper, in a third year Geography class, underscored the benefits of a rail line through the Lower Mainland that could go as much as 80 per cent faster than highway traffic, and even found a potential ‘shortcut’ to Whistler that could shave more minutes off such a journey. “We thought it would be challenging, but we thought this map would spur people’s imagination of what could be done,” said one of the authors, Sean Roufosse.