The Fare Evasion Game – Let’s Not Deal with The Real Transit Issues!

What is interesting about this story is that there were only 440 respondents to TransLink’s survey, which is hardly a drop in the bucket compare to the numbers of passengers using the transit system on a daily basis. Why is this so? Well two answers come to mind; The vast majority of people use the […]

As predicted! TransLink is in the red.

As predicted, TransLink has some finacial problems and they are not going to be getting better any time soon. As gas taxes rise, cheaper gas in the USA becomes more attractice to a larger ever larger radius ofAi??audience; as bus fares rise, fewer full revenue passengers will use the transit system; as more cheap fares […]

TransLink’s Executives Slurpin’ At The Public Trough

I don’t know why Transportation Minister BlairAi??Leckstrom is so upset aboutAi??TransLink executives getting expensive bonusesAi??as it was his own government thatAi??laid the foundation forAi??TransLink as it is today. The TransLink of old had mediocre public oversight at best with regional mayors, many of whom with little or no knowledge of public transit, running the show. […]

Florida East Coast Industries Announces Ambitious Plan For Private Passenger Rail Service

Informative article and one worth reading. Zwei has always felt that if TramTrain service is to be revived in the Fraser Valley, that the Southern Railway of BC should operate the service and not TransLink. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/321480/20120329/florida-east-coast-railway-private-passenger-rail.htm Florida East Coast Industries Announces Ambitious Plan For Private Passenger Rail Service By STEPHEN SMITH: Subscribe to Stephen’s RSS […]