Cargotrams for Broadway or Chilliwack – LRT can adapt!

On 3 March 2000 the Dresden Public Transport Co. and the Volkswagen Automobile-Manufacture Dresden GmbH signed a contract for the Cargotram for the deliveryAi??Ai??of parts from the logistics center in Dresden FriedrichstadtAi??Ai?? to a new car factory, using a tram running over the cities tram lines. The route from the logistics center to the factory […]

Trams, Buses & Trolleybuses Can Co-exist

On another blog, a long standing member of the SkyTrain/metro fraternity alluded to the fact that LRT and buses could not co-exist on the Granville Mall. Sorry to disappoint the purveyors of misinformation, but they can and do in many cities. A photo essay from several citiesAi??Ai??proves the point. Milan Ai?? Geneva Ai?? Essen Riga

TransLink’s Renumerations. A $270 Regional Transit Tax Well spent??

Ever wanted to know what Translink pays their erstwhile spin-doctor,Ken Hardie? Would you beleive $151,000 a year with $18,500 in expenses in 2008. Why was Better Environmentaly Sound Transportation (BEST) paid $61,886 in 2008? Are you appalled by the fact that Gordon Campbell’s and Keven Falcon’s TransLink Board of Ameutuers, which replaced theAi??Ai??previous board made […]

Canada Line Metro Reaches Capacity of 100,000 riders a day? Really, that little?

Here we have a classic Vancouver Sun ‘puff story’ about the Canada line, where real questions are not asked and $150 thousand a year man, the classic spin doctor himself, Ken Hardie shows why he is paid such a stipend. The real question should be; “We just spent $2.5 billion on a metro and its […]

Texas’s Newest ‘Rail’ Transit line, the Red Line

This article for Mass Transit should prove interesting to supporters of the “return of the interurban“, in the Fraser Valley. What should be of interest is the cost of the 32 mile (51.5 km)Ai??Ai??line is less than $5 million per mile or $3.1 million per km. (CAD $ 3.24 million)! Let’s see, a Vancouver to […]