Facts Don’t Seem To Matter – UBC Students Gaslights The Truth.

Gaslighting:  a form of psychological manipulation in which a person or a group covertly sows seeds of doubt in a targeted individual or group, making them question their own memory, perception, or judgment, often evoking in them cognitive dissonance and other changes including low self-esteem. Using denial, misdirection, contradiction, and misinformation, gaslighting involves attempts to […]

Regional Rail Is On The Table

Move over E&N, passenger service on the former BC Rail, will soon take the spotlight in BC politics. What is needed is a comprehensive passenger rail policy for the province, but never fear Premier’s Eby is fully focused spending $16 billion to extend the SkyTrain network a mere 21.7 km. Again, the ruling NDP are […]

BCIT to UBC and Picnics In The Park

First published in 2009., The post has been updated. A Wee Bit Of Local History In early 1996, during BC Transit’s meaningless public consultation period for the Broadway Lougheed Rapid Transit Project which later morphed into the Millennium Line, Zwei received a phone call from an European Transit specialist, who worked for Asea Brown Boverai […]

TransLink Underestimated Capacity Of LRT By 150% And The Time Penalty By Infinity

First posted by zweisystem on Tuesday, November 17, 2020 (updated) I am reposting this from November 2020 because TransLink, civic and provincial politicians are singing hosannas about Bus Rapid Transit, with some going so far to say that BRT makes light rail obsolete! What is damning today is that the numbers used in TransLink’s 2019 […]

Sobering News about The Regional Transit system

The following article in City Hall Watch has some sobering news, ridership has not rebounded to pre covid levels! Main article here, please click It is a rather long article, but worth a read because it illustrates TransLink’s big problem of declining ridership. Claims of increased ridership are more than questionable, but it seems higher […]

Here We Go Again!

Again last week, a local politician repeated the old trope, that Broadway was the busiest transit corridor in not only Canada, but North America. Again Zwei counters the statement with facts. Oh yes, a little birdie told me that TransLink is not running the full schedule of buses in the peak hours due to driver […]

Oops! Not all Is Well With TransLink’s MK.5’s Cars

Oh dear, someone forgot their measuring tape. TransLink is spending a lot of time spinning the delivery of the new (or not so new) Mk.5 cars. Could it be that TransLink wants to hide the fact that the so called new cars are none other than old Innovia 300, 4-car stock, with an added saloon, […]

Listen To The Experts

Currently the full program to extend the Expo and Millennium Lines a mere 21.7 km will now cost in excess of $16 billion. The now, estimated cost to complete the Broadway subway to UBC is now past $8 billion. Yet the provincial government had be carried kicking and screaming to find a few million of […]

Bi-Articulated Buses – A Solution or More Headaches?

Bi or double articulated buses have created a demand for such buses to operate in Vancouver. I believe this would be a big mistake because from what I know about bi articulated buses, they are a niche transport system, designed to solve niche transit problems. What I do know is that they are maintenance intensive […]

A Question Of Capacity – Reprinted from the Light Rail Transit Association

This is a repost from the Light Rail Transit Association (LRTA), because again politcans in metro Vancouver do not have a clue about “capacity” as evidenced in the local media. Please copy or Email this to your local civic, provincial and federal politcans. A QUESTION OF CAPACITY THE CAPACITIES of different modes of transport are […]