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.