Rail For The Valley In The International News Again!

Rail for the Valley and the RftV/Leewood report is featured again in an international publication. In the December issue of Tramways & Urban Transit (the official magazine of the Light Rail Transit Association) is a two page feature of the RftV/Leewood report. As the magazine is distributed not only to LRTA members but internationally as well, the efforts of the RftV team will be widely read.

http://www.lrta.org/ 

There is growing support in the South Fraser communities for the RftV tramtrain, but not one provincial or federal politician has endorsed the project, instead they still back multi billion dollar light-metro construction on routes that do not have the ridership to justify construction. The fallacy that we can build ourselves out of car dependency by increasing taxes and spending more on dubious transit projects is still holding sway with planning bureaucrats, who are misleading regional politicians that by spending more money on SkyTrain will solve regional transit problems. One is hoping that regional mayors will tell TransLink in the near future, that their transit plans are dated and too expensive and to go back to the drawing board. Mayors from South of the Fraser should remind TransLink of the RftV/Leewood report and that age of SkyTrain is drawing to a close.

Isn't it so BC'ish, that a transit plan that is well regarded internationally is ignored by the local powers that be, while at the same time local politicians and transit planners still want to build with the obsolete SkyTrain light-metro system that has been virtually rejected as a viable transit mode around the world.