Another letter the media ignores

Another letter from a friend of Rail for the Valley,Ai??which the mainstream media wish to ignore. HereAi??is the problem with our current financial transit debacle, very few, if any in the region understandsAi??what SkyTrain is and why the Vancouver region has it. Most politicos just repeat TransLink’s bumf ad nauseoum! SkyTrain, both the Expo and […]

Lies, damn lies, statistics and ART

From the “You’d better believe it” Department Although sometimes attributed to Mark Twain ai??i?? because it appears in his posthumously-published Autobiography (1924) ai??i?? this should more properly be ascribed to Disraeli, as indeed Twain took trouble to do: his exact words being, ai???The remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: ai???There […]

Taxpayers entitled to better transit: Light rail advocate – News1130

Taxpayers entitled to better transit: Light rail advocate Call comes as mayors float idea of two-cent-a-litre gas tax Renee Bernard Jul 08, 2011 20:34:59 PM FRASER VALLEY (NEWS1130) – If we pay the taxes, we want the transit. The proposed increase in gas taxes to pay for the Evergreen Line has some saying it's time […]

Death, taxes and TransLink

We all want better transit options, but are we willing to pay for them? Well our rather confused regional mayors think so. The root of TransLink's financial woes has been the SkyTrain proprietary mini-metro system and its clone, the Canada Line. Skytrain costs about four to five times more to build than LRT and about fifteen times more […]

News Release from RftV

Media Release For immediate release Evergreen Line gas tax, vehicle levy – reaction from Rail For the Valley Rail For the Valley demands the Provincial Government get started on building South of Fraser Light Rail, now that residents are being asked to pay more in vehicle and gas taxes. Dr. John Buker, spokesman for the […]

Chilliwack passenger rail supporters: Volunteers, donations needed!

Attention Chilliwack supporters of passenger rail… Rail For the Valley plans to be a major presence at Chilliwack's Party in the Park this summer, and we need volunteers. Party in the Park  http://www.downtownchilliwack.com/page.php?id=55   Friday evenings in July and August, at Central Community Park (corner of Victoria and Young) beginning THIS FRIDAY.   Through our Society, we […]

Will They Or Won’t They – The (N)Evergreen Line Debate and The 40,000 Person Question

 Like a good soap opera, the Evergreen Line debate goes on.   Again, a BC premier has appointed a Minister of Transportation who hasn't an inkling about modern public transportation, metro, and light rail, with the obvious reason of being held to the mercy of his bureaucrats.   There is more BS about SkyTrain and […]

News Flash – SkyTrain down again

Here we go again. SkyTrain, as with all other automatic metros, has an Achilles heel – they stop working and more frequently as the metro ages. This is not a problem for light rail, as it is designed to operate when there are minor glitches. But there is another problem with TransLink and its SkyTrain "transit backbone" […]

Copenhagen to get light-rail network by 2020: transport ministry

LRT in Copenhagen One welcomes the announcement that Copenhagen will have its first tram/LRT line built by 2020.  In several transit oriented blogs, much has been made that the Danish capital, Copenhagen, opted to have a driverless metro, instead of light rail. Automatic metro is the way of the future, was the clarion call by many […]

By coincidence

Strange thing that, on the same day the RftV blog exposed certain connections with the TransLink board and Simon Fraser University, the TransLink Board pulled the plug of the Univercity cheap transit passes. One wonders if the same treatment will happen to the SFU aerial tramway as well? TransLink pulls plug on UniverCity cut-rate pass […]