News Flash – Expo Line Langley Extension Now $6 Billion

Rail for the Valley Vindicated! Despite the name calling and insults, for Rail for the Valley’s estimate of $5 billion for the 16 km Expo Line Extension to Langley, as it now seems it was $1 billion off. Today, the provincial government has put the cost of the extension at $6 billion! So, where is […]

Rubber On Asphalt – The NDP’s Coward’s Way Out!

One just has to shake ones head in disbelief, as the NDP’s solution for Global Warming and Climate change is building more highways. $2.65 billion (the amount of money the NDP are adding to the expansion of the Hwy.1) would build a deluxe Marpole to Chillwack regional railway, including a new rail bridge across the […]

FLASH – Is TransLink Buying ALR Land For OMC#5?

News flash! It now seems that TransLink is going to purchase (if not already bought) Agriculture Land Reserve Land near the corner of the Pacific Highway and Fraser Highways. This is probably going to be the new site of the Operations and Maintenance Centre #5. The reason: ALR Land is $200 thousand an acre versus […]

Rumours!

There is a lot of transit news, but most of it is about TransLink’s insatiable need for money and delays to the completion of the Broadway subway. The strange claim that the provincial government making highways “LRT compatible”, has thankfully been ignored by the media and what is left is rumours. The latest rumour, which […]

Enough Premier Eby – How many People Must Die From The NDP’s “Rubber on Asphalt Planning”?

It is enough; it is time politcans get serious about transit alternatives to Hwy.1 More traffic lanes means more traffic and more traffic means a higher probability of accidents and death. No more excuses, no more of you government’s questionable adherence to the SkyTrain light-metro system. There is a plan and it is called the […]

As Predicted By Rail for the Valley, TransLink’s Financial Fiasco

Nothing shocking at all, as TransLink’s financial failure has been long known to those who understand all things transit. As predicted, TransLink is running head long into a financial wall. The villains in this tawdry two-penny play is politcal interference, corruption, ennui, and the SkyTrain light-metro system. Currently the province (that is the taxpayer) is […]

The Hydrogen Train Debate – The Expensive Quebec Connection

The great panacea to solve all our problems or currently a Popular Science “pipe-dream”? Well is is now worse than that as it seems the push for hydrogen powered trains has more to do with huge Liberal government subsidies to Bombardier Inc. and now Alstom, to keep jobs in Quebec. The old Canadian story; transit […]

Broadway Subway Woes

Rail for the Valley predicted, the Broadway subway will cost far more than the $2.83 billion budgeted for the 5.7km extension. But there is more scandal, that the mainstream media is ignoring and that is after Thales $1.47 billion resignalling program the maximum capacity of the Millennium Line will be a mere 7,500 pphpd! 500 […]

The North Shore’s “Hobson’s Choice”

From: Rail for the Valley For the past 17 years, Rail for the Valley has advocated for the “return of the interurban” on the former Vancouver to Chilliwack BC Electric interurban line that still connects Vancouver to Chilliwack, via Surrey/Cloverdale; Langley; Abbotsford and Vedder/Sardis. Rail for the Valley, due to the soundness of the plan, […]

We Have Done It All Wrong

I am recovering from a classic “heart attack” and after four stents and severe lectures from the surgeons, it was made amply clear, I had it all wrong. Three days in bed at Royal Colombian Hospital, gave me much time to think. That time on my back also made it amply clear, that we are […]