Light Rail Gets an Ally – We Welcome New Infrastructure Minister Amarjeet Sohi

For the first time since I have been advocating for better transit, now over thirty years, we now have a minister of the crown who not only understands modern light rail, he is an advocate of modern LRT! Let us hope new infrastructure minister Amarjeet Sohi is open to new ideas including the Leewood/RftV TramTrain! […]

Tax and Spend Grifters Try An End Run With Road Pricing

Zwei is not against road pricing or congestion charges per se, but before road pricing or some form of congestion charge is implemented in the region, we would need to have a quality public transportation system in place and that we do not, not even close. The problem of course, as Eric Chris, has so […]

Do I Hear Trams On The Arbutus Line………

Want to see Vancouver politicians tearing their hair from their heads? Just mention building LRT on the Arbutus Line. I say not a penny for the Broadway Subway until trams run along the Arbutus Line.   Stockholm completes LidingAi?? Line reconstruction Written byAi?? Keith Barrow PUBLIC services resumed on Stockholm’s LidingAi?? Line following the completion […]

A letter in the Surrey News Leader

Transit: There is a better way The Editor; The Conservatives have re-announced the committed $700-million portion for the proposed Surrey Light Rail Transit (LRT). The total cost of this project will be over $2 billion, yet present passenger flows are below the amount needed to make the operation viable for light rail and it would […]

Libs Promice Light Metro on a Lightly Used Route in Vancouver and LRT on a Heavily Used Route in Montreal

I have had an ongoing conversation with CBC reporters about the Montreal’s Champlain Bridge light rail project. Evidently, the Conservatives were trying to force the Montreal transit authority to install SkyTrain and they were having none of it. In fact, the authority claims that LRT would be able to carry more passengers than SkyTrain (maybe […]

For WhomThe Road Toll, Tolls

Yup, road tolls will spell political suicide for any politician who wants to take up the crusade for road pricing. But Price and Harcourt are , in part, the architects of the TransLink fiasco, simply because they pretend to be transit experts, but in reality know very little about Public Transport, pontificating on hugely expensive […]

Monkey See – Monkey Do

The Surrey LRT (in dark green) will just inconvenience the bus customer with an unwanted transfer and one can lose upwards of 70% of potential ridership per transfer. Well, the Liberals re-announced an already pledged monies to fund one third of the Broadway subway if elected, now it is the Conservatives turn to re-announce already […]

Faster Transit May Cause Congestion

An interesting item from the BBC, especially when everyone points to speed as paramount for good transit. What the following does illustrate, is the ongoing scientific exploration of public transit overseas, completely missing in North America, where instead, shysters try to sell politicians one gadgetbahnen after another or subways as the great cure for congestion. […]

Forward Thinking – Absent In BC

Now here is a politician who looks three minutes into the future, wanting existing rail lines preserved for future use. We lost the rails in the Kelowna/Vernon corridor; we are about to lose the E&N; and the city of Vancouver is making damn sure that the Arbutus Corridor is not used for rail! The political […]

Since When KPMG Become Transit Consultants?

The following news headline from the CBC Cabinet ministers met publicly with KPMG while firm’s tax ‘sham’ under CRA probe may pose some questions, but UBC prof. Patrick Condon would like to remind us all that……..   This is the firm UBC and City of Vancouver entrusted our study of the Broadway subway to. Sheesh. […]