Crossing the Fraser
In answer to a private email, yes indeed the Chilliwack interurban did cross the Fraser River, using the then Great Northern Railway Fraser River Bridge. The photo is a Chilliwack bound train in the late 1940’s.
And yes, the proposed TramTrain could use the same bridge today.
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Interesting …….???
1903
Local Manufacture
The first three tram cars, now in course of construction in the B. C. Electric Railway Company’s shops at New Westminster, will be turned out in a couple of weeks, two of them for use in Vancouver and one for Victoria. Experts who have inspected the cars say that in workmanship and beauty they compare favorably with the best product of Eastern factories. The Company expects to turn out twelve cars this year. Shop Superintendent Driscoll has recently made some experiments with the Douglas fir, with a view of determining the adaptability of the wood for car construction. The tests have been eminently satisfactory, and Mr. Buntzen said yesterday that the next car, following the three now nearing completion, will be built entirely of the British Columbia wood. From the results of his investigations, the Superintendent is satisfied that the “native” cars will prove an eye-opener to those who have relied upon imported ash, oak and maple, for certain parts of car constructions. ……. etc.
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1912
“The British Columbia Electric Railway Company, Limited, was incorporated in 1897 with a capital of $2,700,000, acquiring the Street Railway systems in Victoria, Vancouver, New Westminster and the Interurban line connecting Vancouver and New Westminster which were at that time unable to meet their liabilities and provide the capital necessary for the growth of the populations they served. …….. etc.
@Richard, nice to see you post another facile comment. So lucid are you. How are you feeling about the transit vote? Good?
Buses and trains here are empty much of the time. It isn’t hard to find an empty s-train car or diesel bus. If you want to see empty and unwelcome diesel buses, stop by UBC where TransLink is operating empty 99 B-Lines every three minutes at peak times to UBC and until 2:30 AM during off peak times to UBC which is closed for the summer.
“Lost in translation”
Okay, let’s go, to the nitty-gritty. Right now, schemers are conniving for another transit tax to take the place of the sales tax, rejected. With their undisclosed agendas, they are secretly lurking in the shadows after their miserable and failed attempt to dupe taxpayers into going along with the sales tax to fund transit for TransLink to raise taxes, at will, without any checks and balances.
If that weren’t bad enough, mobsters controlling TransLink are looking for another mob boss who they euphemistically refer to as CEO and are wanting to pay him or her more than the previous one. No, I don’t think so. Forget it. No thanks.
Unbelievable. Va te faire foutre.
https://www.google.ca/#q=french+english+translation
“First the truth”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE23hMLbHg4&list=RDzE23hMLbHg4
Want the truth? Can you handle it?
Money skimmed from transit fares and taxes is used to pay the salaries of the redundant and overpaid employees at TransLink and to funnel money to firms fleecing taxpayers for over priced and inferior transit. TransLink is the front for firms (concrete, engineering and other) profiting from massively expensive transit infrastructure.
Extending the tram line to UBC in the next 12 to 18 months: pays for itself through reductions in operating costs. It also reduces air pollution, mitigates transit noise and improves transit service.
However, building the tram line to UBC (which by the way slashes GHG emissions by replacing 100 or more carbon emitting and highly disruptive diesel buses): defers or eliminates the planned subway to UBC. This is bad – for the mobsters wanting to cash in the subway to UBC.
“Organized crime front, TransLink”
Nobody at TransLink makes any decisions. All the decisions for TransLink are made by unseen individuals who are hidden and out of the public eye. What happens if TransLink is dissolved? Power disappears for the shady and hidden ones who control TransLink. Dissolve TransLink.
TransLink is a racket for organized crime. Eliminate TransLink.
TransLink isn’t a private organization where the founder (Bill Gates of Microsoft, for example) nominates himself as CEO to pay himself a hefty salary. So, what’s the reason for the CEO at TransLink and his big salary? He’s nothing but the minion of whoever is making the decisions, behind the scenes. He’s not making any decisions. Get rid of the mob boss (CEO) at TransLink.
Mayors in Metro Vancouver are the real CEOs but they aren’t able to make any decisions about transit and have been stripped of their rightful control of transit. Give the mayors in Metro Vancouver the power to make the decisions for transit. Liquidate TransLink; sell of its computers, smart phones, real estate – everything – and use it to fund transit. Get rid of every single deadbeat at TransLink.
Get rid of the communications staff putting their spin on what TransLink is and does. What’s the reason for paying them, to feed us lies? Nobody at TransLink matters. Paying anyone at TransLink anything is criminal.
Don’t ask for another penny for transit until TransLink is gone. Make the mayors who we voted-in the strategists for transit and the ones making the decisions for transit. They know best what they want for transit and what they can afford for transit.
I don’t want to read another article by another stooge reporter telling us how we have to find another revenue source for the thieves at TransLink. No, I don’t.
Stomp, stomp… stomp. No, I don’t.
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