BC, Building Our Way To Gridlock.
Someone please memo this to the Minister of Transportation; the Premier; the Mayor of Delta and the BC Liberal party. Guest column: Wider roads wonai??i??t solve congestion problem (AP Photo / Jae C. Hong) 6356725 Ai??- See more at: http://www.bendbulletin.com/opinion/lettertotheeditor/5323723-151/guest-column-wider-roads-wont-solve-congestion-problem#sthash.xGCX3git.0vCV9BSw.dpuf Build it, and they will come. In the context of the Legislatureai??i??s transportation plan, this […]
SkyTrain Incidents – A Most Curious Article
Gregory (Scotland YardAi??detective): ai???Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention?ai??? Holmes: ai???To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.ai??? Gregory: ai???The dog did nothing in the night-time.ai??? Holmes: ai???That was the curious incident.ai??? It is interesting what is not reported. It seems, Postmedia did not report […]
Canada line Goes Ka-Put – Could Dirty Tunnels Be The Culprit?
The Canada Line was down for three hours on Friday, but if one was looking for evidence of it, well TransLink is doing its best to cleanse the internet from reporting the problem. Trying to avoid the fiasco of last winter, where TransLink abandoned customers, when the Canada Line failed in the snow, officials were […]
Bombardier’s Blundering Is Alstom’s Gain
Recent problems with Bombardier’s delivery of new trams for Toronto has made Canadian customers look elsewhere. For two long, Ottawa has twisted arms of Canadian transit operators to buy the Canadian Bombardier product, to keep production going, propping up the giant multinational company and garnering votes from Ontario and Quebec. This is not to say […]
If Children Can do It, So Can We!
An interesting article about Hungary’s “Children’s Railway”. Light reading for the weekend. The Rail Line Operated By Children. By Mike MacEacheran, BBC 5 May 2017 With its shelves lined with worn textbooks and corridors plastered with drawings, noisy GyermekvasA?tas Otthon on the western outskirts of Budapest seems like any normal school before the bell rings. […]
UK Developer Must Help pay for Rail Connection
The UK is reopening once abandoned rail lines to cope with congestion and increased population. A UK developer must pay A?13.2m (CAD $23.25m) towards the restoration of the Bere Alston Tavistock railway route before building 750 new homes. This works out to CAD $31,000 per home. When one looks at the massive developments happening in […]
A Novice’s Guide To Transit…………..
ai??i??ai??i??ai??i?? or cutting through the BS about light rail, SkyTrain and BRT. The following is a guide plus definitions about ai???railai??? transit. ALM: Automatic Light metro, the fourthAi??marketing name given for the SkyTrain family of light-metros, when Lavalin briefly ownedAi??SkyTrain before going bankrupt. ALRT (1): Advanced Light Rail Transit, the secondAi??marketing name for SkyTrain. ALRT […]
A letter sent to Surrey Council – LRT in Surrey Part 1.
From the usual suspect, long time LRT and tram advocate Malcolm Johnston. What has been forgotten by most, is the historical context for our light metro system has been lost, due to political, bureaucratic and academic intrigue. The illustrations have been removed for brevity. Dear Mayor and Council; My name is Malcolm Johnston and […]
The World’s Longest Tram In Budapest
Budapest has been been operating the world’s longest trams for several years but now are taking delivery of even longer trams, the 56 metre CAF Urbos. The former holder of the longest tram, theAi?? 54 metre Siemens Combino Plus. Why run long trams? They are cheaper to operate than coupled sets of trams. These cars […]
TramTrain – It’s Time To Have Another Look At The Leewood Project
While local politicians squabble about expensive transit planning and gouging the taxpayer to pay for multi billion dollar transportation vanity projects, economic and user friendly TramTrain construction and operation continue to increase. Isn’t time for politicians have another look at the Leewood/Rail for the Valley Study? Stadler selected to supply Szeged tram-trains 19 Apr […]
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