Today all Dutch trains are powered 100% by wind energy

  Something to think about. Question: Can we use wind generated power to sell the Leewood RftV TramTrain scheme? Today all Dutch trains are powered 100% by wind energy In the Netherlands all NS’s 1.200.000 train trips per day are now without any CO2 emissions. A world’s first! By Michiel de Gooijer As from 1 […]

Memo to Metro Mayors: Forget Road Pricing, build With LRT!

As Vancouver’s metro mayor’s dig themselves further into a financial morass, with the proposed now $3.2 billion Broadway subway to Arbutus and the now over $100/km Surrey LRT, which will demand more and more punitive regional taxation, why instead don’t we plan for affordable European style LRT? The trouble is, our regional mayors think they […]

SkyTrain – What TransLink Is Not Telling Us

This reply from Haveacow who is an Engineer, to an earlier post and I think worthy of a post on its own. He is familiar with SkyTrain and worked on the Ottawa LRT and inn other words he knows his stuff. Despite the ‘huff and puff’ from high paid TransLink spokes people about how the […]

Congestion Everywhere, No Releif in Sight!

As predicted in 1980! There are affordable solutions, but they would embarrass the MoT, the City of Vancouver and academics, especially at SFU. An ever growing population, means more traffic and until the government ensures an attractive and affordable alternative to the car, which because of SkyTrain will not get in the foreseeable future, gridlock […]

E & N Railway Resurrection?

E&N resurrection? I hope so and a developer, no less, is spearheading the drive to move to “rail” transit. RftV wishes Mr. Mariash well. If Fraser Valley developers were of the same mind as well? CTV Vancouver Island Published Thursday, December 8, 2016 A well-known Victoria developer says heai??i??ll get a proposed railway line between […]

Fare Gates – Not As Advertised

TransLink’s fare-gates and Compass Card system was forced upon TransLink, not to reduce fare evasion, which was well within industry norms, but to ensure then Premier Campbell’s good friend, Ken Dobell, work as aAi?? lobbyist for Cubit Industries who make the fare gates. Lobbyists must be successful with their lobby of government or no one […]

TransLink’s Ridership Bamboozle Continues

  TransLink continues it ongoing program to bamboozle the public and politicians with their patented ridership bumf. Boarding’s are up 4%, really? Maybe, but boarding’s do not equate into actual higher actual ridership numbers, especially with the 130,000, $1.00 a day, ride at will U-Passes distributed to post secondary students. Simply put, those 130,000 U-Pass […]

Ottawa News

Big things are happening in Ottawa, as the European light rail Renaissance has arrived in Canada Ai??Photos: Courtesy Haveacow. Vehicle testing marks next big milestone for O-Train Confederation Line December 2, 2016 News Release Ottawa ai??i?? A major milestone in the O-Train Confederation Line Light Rail Transit (LRT) project was celebrated today as the first […]

Game Changer for Regional Rail!

What the FRA does, Transport Canada will soon follow. This news is of great importance to Metro and Victoria’s metro regions, bringing in a transit option that Rail for the Valley has been championing for many years. Proven European technology combined with proven European transit philosophy (which will come with the technology), just may make […]

Ransomware Attack On The Muni Results In Free Travel.

Interesting! I wonder what TransLink would have done? If TransLink doesn’t have a computer hack plan, they better get one soon as it seems electronic fare cards are vulnerable. San Francisco made its public transit free for a day after it was hacked Kif Leswing Nov. 27, 2016 San Francisco residents were able to take […]