Vancouver’s Olympic Streetcar Line Wins The LRTA’s Worldwide Project Of The Year Award!

Posted by on Thursday, November 25, 2010 · 3 Comments 

Good news everyone, Vancouver’s Olympic LineAi??has wonAi??the Light Rail Transit Association’s www.lrta.org Worldwide project of the year award. There were two winners in this category, the Olympic Line and the new LRT line in Kayseray, Turkey, which both came in on time and on budget..

Below, the now disused Olympic Line in Vancouver.

Below, theAi??award winning LRT Kayseray LRT

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3 Responses to “Vancouver’s Olympic Streetcar Line Wins The LRTA’s Worldwide Project Of The Year Award!”
  1. Justin Bernard says:
    November 25, 2010 at 11:39 pm

    Congrats!

  2. David says:
    November 28, 2010 at 7:57 am

    Unfortunately this like a cancelled TV show winning an Emmy… Kudos to the Transit Museum Society for finally getting the heritage service up-and-running in mid October, for a season that ends at the end of October. Brick-a-bracks to whoever approved spending $8.5 Million (yes, $8,500,00) on rebuilding the r-o-w from Granville to Cambie, but did nothing to replace the tracks from Cambie to Science World. http://www.trams.bc.ca/dhr/schedule.htm How did we spend 8.5 Million and end up with a shorter line; how much more to restore what we had in 2008?

  3. zweisystem says:
    November 28, 2010 at 12:28 pm

    It seems that a mainline standard of track construction was used instead of a streetcar/LRT standard of construction. The tracks laid were built to a TGV or ICE standard, complete with cement ties and Pandrol clips.