First Hungarian TramTrain Service Begins
Good news, the opening of the first TramTrain service in Hungary. What is largely of interest is that the TramTrain route is mainly single track with passing loops, using hybrid vehicles, built by Stadler and can operate either by electricity and diesel.There is a lot of scope for TramTrain to operate in the Fraser Valley, […]
Time To Put Freight Back On The Rails!
A rolling motorway in Europe The recent fiasco with our regional highways, due to the “Great Deluge” has again spot lighted the massive amount of freight traffic that is carried on the public highway system. The trucking industry is highly subsidized by using the existing highways and the motor freight companies undercut the freight rates […]
A Renewed Call For Judicial Inquiry on TransLink and the Mayor’s Council on Transit
November 22, 2022The Hon. David Eby, Q.C. Attorney General, The Province of BC.Dear Sir, A renewed call for a Judicial Inquiry on TransLink and the Mayor’s Council on Transit with the proposed SkyTrain Broadway subway and the SkyTrain extension in Surrey to Langley. I am writing to you on the above matter. The Broadway subway. […]
FROM THE LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT ASSOCIATION – TRAMS ARE SYMBOLS OF CITIES
From the LRTA, the modern tram, workhorse of today’s public transit systems in over 600 cities around the world, yet noticeably missing in Metro Vancouver. Indeed, the modern tram is absent in soulless Vancouver and it is time to change this. Let’s put some soul into Vancouver; let’s plan for trams! For the Fraser Valley […]
REM
The following article also aptly describes metro Vancouver’s transit planning, which is mostly dictated by the premier’s office and camouflaged in layers of bureaucracy. The result is very expensive, politically inspired rapid transit lines that soon become financial anchors. As a final note, the then Gordon Campbell BC government rejected LRT from the start, dropping […]
The North Shore’s “Hobson’s Choice”.
The following was sent to all North Shore mayor and councils. PLEASE DELIVER TO MAYOR AND COUNCIL AND FIRST NATION COUNCILS From: Rail for the Valley For the past 14 years, Rail for the Valley has advocated for the “return of the interurban” for the former Vancouver to Chilliwack BC Electric interurban line that […]
Planning Fallacy
From Norman Farrell’s In-sights blog, commenting on the NDP’s continuation with the Site “C” dam project despite the fact that Site “C” is a risky $16↑billion energy project that will cause massive ecological damage and produce electricity at 4x the cost of alternative sources.. The same is true with the now $3 billion Broadway […]
A Transit Delight For a Wet Weekend
The quietest station in London https://www.mylondon.news/news/west-london-news/i-visited-londons-least-busy-21581255 The Tivvy Bumper brought in from the cold https://www.nrmfriends.org.uk/post/the-tivvy-bumper-brought-in-from-the-cold Chasing Chrome Special train with private cars on Surrey Railway, British Columbia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C81E5F1kibE (Spotter: Neil Kearns) Great Central Railway – 1940’s Wartime Weekend 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh1IYYZTaOA A Fantasy Double Header! Mayflower & Bahamas On The Welsh Dragon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyafT1jE0sY LMS 46115 […]
Entering The Land of Unicorns and Pixie Dust – TransLink’s Current P.R. Gamble
Well, the first surprise was that this news item came via the Alaska Highway News of all places. This tells me TransLink is spinning the story to everyone it can to give the good news to! The big problem that there is no money to fund these grand schemes and the post Covid economy may […]
And You Think Wider Highways and Bigger Bridges Will Solve Congestion?
Let’s build more highways and bigger tunnels and bridges to cure congestion. Let us build 10 lane tunnels and bridges; let us build ten lane highways: let us build ourselves out of gridlock. Sorry, facts show that one cannot build oneself out of congestion and gridlock as building bigger bridges and tunnels and wider highways […]
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