Centenarian ready to roll

Centenarian ready to roll The Times October 8, 2010 On Oct. 3, 1910, the first Interurban train rolled down the track from New Westminster to Chilliwack. Over the next four decades, it was the main transportation link for people in the new rural communities. The service rattled back and forth across the Fraser Valley several […]

Surrey Leader – COLUMN: Paying for poor service

COLUMN: Paying for poor service By Frank Bucholtz – Surrey North Delta Leader Published: October 22, 2010 11:00 AM Updated: October 22, 2010 11:26 AM Despite millions of dollars spent in the past decade to improve transit service in the Metro Vancouver region, Surrey, Delta and White Rock continue to get shafted. TransLink has added […]

Abbotsford News – Transit will work

Transit will work Published: September 28, 2010 2:00 PM Updated: September 28, 2010 2:56 PM 0 Comments Would we make use of a light rail transit system in the Fraser Valley? Yes. All members of my family would use it, as well as my friends and many of my fellow teachers. A light rail system […]

Build Murray-Clarke A?ai??i??ai??? or Evergreen support goes: PM council

An interesting little spat is taking place in Port Moody, where the city council want TransLink to chip in with the Murray-Clarke Connector project and if they don’t, they will pull their support for the Evergreen (Nevergreen) Line. This confirms two of Zwei’s opinions about the $1.4 billion light-metro project: The Evergreen Line is front […]

Pivotal transit study still stalled at provincial level

Pivotal transit study still stalled at provincial level Further delays could impact local budgets By Rochelle Baker, The Times October 22, 2010 8:05 AM Fraser Valley politicians are growing increasingly impatient as they wait on the provincial government to release a comprehensive study around the future of transit services in the Fraser Valley. Abbotsford Coun. […]

Abbotsford Today Doesn’t Like the Rail for the Valley/Leewood Report

A new valley magazine and web site, Abbotsford Today doesn’t like the RftV/Leewood report and one wonders why? What do they want, more new highways or a SkyTrain that will never come? Issues: Costs Still Make Light Rail A Pipe Dream http://www.abbotsfordtoday.ca/?p=46791 AsAi??Ai??stated before, the report was a feasibility study for the implantation of a […]

Vancouver Commuting Habits

Ai??Ai?? The following information from the Out-of-home Marketing Research Association of Canada or OMAC is certainly contrary to the SkyTrain lobby claims that SkyTrain takes a large share of Vancouver’s commuters. But Zwei knew that already as if any claims made by Translink about SkyTrain being a wunder system are quickly dispelled by the lack […]

Transit News From Here and There

Chilliwack Times http://www.chilliwacktimes.com/Uninformed+about+transit/3693739/story.html Nick Wimpney Ai??Ai??open letter to Sharon Gaetz in the Times needs following up North Shore News http://www.burnabynow.com/story.html?id=3699636 Hamilton Most Candidates Support LRT, Mayoral Candidates Split http://www.raisethehammer.org/article/1207/most_candidates_support_lrt_mayoral_candidates_split Winnipeg Bus rapid transit has edge in poll Winnipeg Free Press http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/bus-rapid-transit-has-edge-in-poll-105418328.html Cambridge, Ontario Light rail transit dominates regional debate Cambridge Times http://www.cambridgetimes.ca/news/local/article/891078–light-rail-transit-dominates-regional-debate Los Angeles – […]

Premier’s transit pitch hard to swallow

Premier’s transit pitch hard to swallow By Brian Lewis, The Province October 7, 2010 Comments (6) A mother shoving cod liver oil down her child’s throat in the belief it’s a good health remedy A?ai??i??ai??? even though it tastes bad A?ai??i??ai??? is one thing, but unilaterally shoving public transit policy down taxpayer throats is positively […]

Foot-dragging feds slow train service to Seattle

Foot-dragging feds slow train service to Seattle By Jon Ferry, The Province October 18, 2010 Comments (6) The news that Ottawa has finally approved the operation of a second daily train between Vancouver and Seattle for another year is a relief to all those who love trains — and jobs. Now we need to push […]