The Broadway Follies – The Smear Campaign Begins!
On radio station CKNW, the opening salvos from the SkyTrain Lobby were fired at the public, in the was of getting public opinion to support a $2 billion plus SkyTrain subway under Broadway. The BS meter was running full throttle, when the usual suspects, Frances (BS) Bula, from the Globe and mail; Michael Geller, President, The Geller Group and Adjunct Professor, SFU Centre for Sustainable Community Development (a Gordon Price advocate); Lesli Bolt, President, BoltAi??Communications (a public relations firm who seems to do a lot of work for developers) were oohing and awing about a SkyTrain subway under Broadway.
Have a listen, just cue up to Tuesday, Dec. 11, 9:05 AM.
http://www.cknw.com/news/
What we had was a complete misrepresentation about LRT SkyTrain and subways. Now, we have the defining of the sales campaign for the Broadway SkyTrain subway; we (Vancouver) has the density for a subway and they (Surrey) have yet to justify any “rapid transit” investment.
It is very sad to see players in the mainstream media resort to the Goebbels Gambit, where by ai???If you tell a SkyTrain lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe the SkyTrain lie. The SkyTrain lie can be maintained only for such time as theAi??Province, the city of VancouverAi??and TransLinkAi??can shield the people from the political, economic and/orAi??long termAi??consequences of the SkyTrainAi??lie. It thus becomes vitally important for theAi??Province, the City of VancouverAi??and TransLinkAi??to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the SkyTrain lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the Province, the City of Vancouver and TransLinkai???.
I listened to the clip and yes, the BS meter is running very high.
Geller is a developer who thinks that because he is associated with SFU, he is the anointed one. Bolt is just a spin doctor for hire and the COV seems to have hired her. And Francis Bula, Canada Line booster from the start, she will twist every story, every little nuance to show that the Canada line is successful. She sold out any journalistic cred, when she sold out the Cambie St. merchants.
Bill Good, aka Bill boring and CORUS radio, the greatest BS merchants around, absolutely no credibility at all.
Take a Valium, make no mistake, Vancouver wants a subway and Vancouver gets what it wants, especially when everyone else pays for it.
What a joke, the city of Vancouver wants Cadillac transit while we wait and wait and wait in Surrey. Vancouver gets cheap transit with lots of options but in surrey we get screwed with bridge tolls and a dinky Skytrain at $5 bucks a shot.
It think if Vancouver wants a subway, then Vancouver should pay for it.
As for the Bill good Show, I don’t listen anymore coz its like never endingng infomercial. I listen to CBC.
Zweisystem replies: I wouldn’t call SkyTrain a Cadillac transit system, I’d call it an Edsel transit system.