BCIT to UBC and Picnics In The Park

First published in 2009., The post has been updated. A Wee Bit Of Local History In early 1996, during BC Transit’s meaningless public consultation period for the Broadway Lougheed Rapid Transit Project which later morphed into the Millennium Line, Zwei received a phone call from an European Transit specialist, who worked for Asea Brown Boverai […]

Here We Go Again!

Again last week, a local politician repeated the old trope, that Broadway was the busiest transit corridor in not only Canada, but North America. Again Zwei counters the statement with facts. Oh yes, a little birdie told me that TransLink is not running the full schedule of buses in the peak hours due to driver […]

Listen To The Experts

Currently the full program to extend the Expo and Millennium Lines a mere 21.7 km will now cost in excess of $16 billion. The now, estimated cost to complete the Broadway subway to UBC is now past $8 billion. Yet the provincial government had be carried kicking and screaming to find a few million of […]

A Question Of Capacity – Reprinted from the Light Rail Transit Association

This is a repost from the Light Rail Transit Association (LRTA), because again politcans in metro Vancouver do not have a clue about “capacity” as evidenced in the local media. Please copy or Email this to your local civic, provincial and federal politcans. A QUESTION OF CAPACITY THE CAPACITIES of different modes of transport are […]

The NDP Are paving Paradise And Turning It Into A Parking Lot – An Updated Repost from 2021

First posted by zweisystem on Thursday, April 8, 2021 Updated. Reinstating passenger services on regional railways, it is what government should be doing, to deal with traffic congestion and pollution, but they are not, as government would rather spend money on prestigious “rapid transit” monuments to cut for photo-ops at election time. The E&N, the […]

And Over To You Mr. Cow – TransLink’s fiscal Realities

First posted by zweisystem on Wednesday, March 2, 2022 One of the RftV’s many friends, Haveacow is a Canadian transportation specialist. He uses the Avatar Haveacow because in the arcane world of Canadian and American public transportation, speaking the truth may find you out of a job. An American transportation Engineer who has helped Zwei […]

The Ever Line SkyTrain Revisited – The Legacy

A repost. First posted by zweisystem on Friday, March 27, 2020 With all the hype and hoopla about the new SkyTrain 5-car train-sets being delivered and the media oo-ing and aw-ing about the system, I thought retelling a little history was in order. One just has to shake ones head! Except for brief mentions of […]

The Eglinton Light Rail – The Story from The Ground!

One of the problems with commenting on “other people’s” transit stories from “other cities” is that one does not get the full story and what may seem to be a problem caused by “A”, was really caused by “B”, compounded by “C”. Mr. Cow is a Canadian Transit Professional, who lives not far from Toronto […]

TramTrain – It’s Time To Have Another Look At The Leewood Project – Updated

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. Is it not time for politicians have another look at the Leewood/Rail for the Valley Study?

Road Pricing – Back from the Dead

From 2018. Zwei has studied “Road Pricing” and “Congestion Charging” for over 20 years and……………… the very first rule for a successful road pricing scheme is that the region have a user friendly and affordable public transit alternative. With TransLink we don’t…….. not even close and TransLink is so incompetent at what it does, will […]