Burnaby Mountain
What’s next after the gondola? Walkways along Gaglardi and the Parkway
February 8, 2023By: Vee Babbar, SFU Student Content warning: mentions of car accidents and assault. After a decade of lobbying by students, the BC TransLink Board announced plans to construct a gondola system to provide easier access to the SFU Burnaby campus when the city council voted in favour. This gondola will connect the main campus to the Production Way-University SkyTrain station, and is expected to be completed within five years. That’s all amazing, but now’s not the time to let up. With the gondola, Burnaby Mountain is one step closer to year-round reliable commuting. The next step is to enhance the…
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SFU students host celebration for the approval of the Burnaby gondola project
October 12, 2022By: Chloë Arneson, News Writer SFU celebrated the approval of the long-awaited Burnaby Mountain gondola by hosting a gathering on Tuesday, September 13. Community members, students, alumni, and staff gathered in the Student Union Building to hear remarks from student…
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What Grinds Our Gears: We’re not in a state of perpetual panic over the tank farm
June 15, 2022By: Luke Faulks, Opinions Editor We complain, but SFU’s Burnaby campus is a uniquely beautiful spot for a school. Secluded at the top of a mountain, we’re as close as you can come to a literal ivory tower of education. But…
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SFU Burnaby is doomed to always be a commuter campus
April 11, 2022By: Craig Allan, Peak Associate In 1963, after achieving formal assent in the BC Legislature, Dr. Gordon M. Shrum, first chancellor of SFU, decided that the best place for the new SFU would be atop Burnaby Mountain, ensuring two things:…
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Gondola town hall presenters share benefits of proposed project
February 8, 2022By: Yelin Gemma Lee, News Writer On January 21, 2022 Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS), Graduate Student Society (GSS), and SFU collaboratively presented a virtual gondola town hall where the external relations representatives from each group delivered a presentation. The…
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Take a hike! Here are some of our favourites
January 20, 2022By: Jacob Mattie, Peak Associate SFU’s Burnaby campus is set at the top of Burnaby Mountain. This is the source of much grief in the winter months for students who need to walk up or down if buses fail (if…
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The City of Burnaby and SFU plan for new firehall on Burnaby Mountain
November 2, 2021By: Yelin Gemma Lee, News Writer The City of Burnaby is working with SFU to push forward the design phase of a new firehall at Discovery Park on Burnaby Mountain. Construction is set to begin in 2024 at the southeast…
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TransLink launches Phase 2 of the SFU gondola project following feedback report from Phase 1
November 25, 2020Written by: Karissa Ketter, News Writer TransLink has completed Phase 1 of their planning for the Burnaby Mountain Gondola Transit project. Phase 1 consisted of gathering community feedback on the proposed project and TransLink looked for route option preference, and…
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Wildfire extinguished on Burnaby Mountain
September 12, 2020Written by: Michelle Young, News Editor On Friday, September 11 a fire burned on the northern side of Burnaby Mountain. The Burnaby Fire Department was called at 12:20 p.m. for a fire that was “500 to 600 feet across,” according…
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Trans Mountain pipeline construction continues during COVID-19 pandemic
July 14, 2020Written by: Madeleine Chan, Staff Writer Construction of the Trans Mountain Expansion Project (TMEP) is continuing in BC and Alberta during the COVID-19 pandemic. In BC, construction is currently underway in Kamloops and on Burnaby Mountain at the Burnaby and…
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