economic growth cycle
impacted the forest industry
with 2 large lumber
operations and many smaller
ones locating in Port Moody.
Development was such that a
request for a rail transit
system to connect to New
Westminster was requested.
This was also denied.

   It was over 65 years
later, in 1975 that requests
again were made for transit
connections to New
Westminster and Vancouver.
Numerous proposals and plans
were made over the next 37
years. In 2009, a decision
was finally made for a
'Skytrain' style system that

would connect from the
existing Lougheed Station in
Burnaby, travel via tunnel
under Clarke Hill, through
Port Moody and on to
Coquitlam Centre. The system
will not be completed until
2016. The speculation and
development from this new
rail transit has interesting

comparisons to the coming of
the CPR in the 1800s, and
will influence Port Moody's
development for the next
century.