Obituary – Adam Fitch

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Rail for the Valley is not in the habit of printing obituaries, but Adam Fitch was a good friend to Rail for the Valley and this blog.

Zwei received the following email from the daughter of Adam Fitch:

This is Emily Fitch, Adam’s elder daughter. If you can, please join me on Monday, September 19th to attend Adam’s funeral and burial. Adam died yesterday evening at St. Paul’s hospital, surrounded by family. He had been battling a blood infection for the previous three weeks.
Funeral Details:
Monday September 19, 2:30-4:00pm
Schara Tzedeck Cemetery
2345 Marine Drive, New Westminster. 5 mins’ walk west of 22nd Street skytrain station.
I only met Adam Fitch twice, but we constantly sent emails to each other for about a decade about transit and transit planning. He was one of the professional planners who advised me on the subject of transit and transportation in the modern urban setting. He was a fountain of information and I had my knuckles rapped a few times about mistakes made in regional planning and transportation.
Adam was also one of the few planners in BC who actually understood transit mode, bus, tram (LRT) light metro and subway, a rarity in BC.
He will be deeply missed.
Again, I offer my condolences from Rail for the Valley to his family.

 

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2 Responses to “Obituary – Adam Fitch”
  1. Haveacow says:

    That’s very sad. From one planner to another here’s a statement of warmth, advice, support and ideas in the world of planning in general. When it comes to hard decisions about life, policy, design and comedy, “when in doubt, bulldoze!”

    Cheers from,

    Haveacow in Ottawa

  2. Victoria Weller says:

    Hello
    My sincere condolences to you and his family. I worked with Adam at the Thompson-Nicola Regional Districy in Kamloops – his office was next to mine. We talked daily about movies (he was a huge fan), our respective families and children, and his vision for transit projects. He had a great enthusiasm for helping others with planning and making projects better. He also had a great sense of humor and great pride in being Jewish. So sad to hear he passed. He left us too early.

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