HELP! RAIL FOR THE VALLEY VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

MEETING THIS WEDNESDAY This is a pre-election call-out. We’re going to do a big push to get light rail back on the agenda for this election. Join us! Regardless of whether or not you can make it to the meeting this Wednesday in Chilliwack, please email us if you want to help: railforthevalley@gmail.com   RAIL […]

The latest Transit Study – initial reaction from Rail For the Valley

The latest Transit Study for the Fraser Valley (the one that cost $400,000 and promised to look at the Interurban) has finally been released by the Provincial government, almost a year late, and right before Christmas.   We never held out much hope for this study, seeing as its scope was limited to the FVRD […]

A New Look and a New Resolve!

The growing support for the Rail for the Valley TramTrain/Interurban project has made the new look Rail for the Valley website and blog a must as the old blog was rather dowdy. Zweisystem welcomes Cardinal Fang to the blog role, but lest the SkyTrain Lobby think they have chased old Zwei away, think again! The […]

Welcome to the new Rail For the Valley website

Hi everyone, I am extraordinarily pleased to present to you the new Rail For the Valley website. http://www.railforthevalley.com   Make sure to check out all the sections. In addition to a new professional layout, there's:  A lot of new content on our campaign and related issues, that has already been posted Continual news updates posted to http://www.railforthevalley.com much more frequently […]

Bringing Back the Interurban Line (by John Vissers and Alexandria Mitchell)

Bringing Back the Interurban Line: Key to our Transportation Future Lies in the Past (By John Vissers and Alexandria Mitchell, for The Common Sense Canadian) [click here to view the full article on The Canadian] The BC provincial transportation plan is running out of political fuel, dollars and sense. How long can we continue to […]

Groundbreaking report on Interurban light rail A?ai??i??ai??? released TODAY

Rail For The Valley is extremely excited to announce the release of a comprehensive independent analysis of the potential for light rail service on the existing and publicly owned Interurban Rail Corridor, connecting communities from Chilliwack to Vancouver with an affordable, sustainable public transportation system. The study, now complete, was performed by Leewood Projects. About […]

Train crashes into car in Nanaimo: Another example of a car driver ignoring the dangers of a railway level crossings

Here we have another sad example of a motorist ignoring railway signals and driving into the path of a passenger train, with tragic results. Rail For The Valley must deal with two issues before the reinstatement of the interurban. 1) Before any interurban or streetcar service is to begin in BC, a complete review and […]