We Have Done It All Wrong
I am recovering from a classic “heart attack” and after four stents and severe lectures from the surgeons, it was made amply clear, I had it all wrong.
Three days in bed at Royal Colombian Hospital, gave me much time to think.
That time on my back also made it amply clear, that we are doing it all wrong transit wise as well.
The same denial, the same lies, the same arrogance was on open display.
We are doing transit all wrong and their will be no medical crisis to make one rethink, one’s potion, instead it will be a financial crisis, that will compel government to rethink what they are doing and that is still some time ahead.
The symptom’s are there, like the former Vancouver bureaucrat who was the lead champion of the Broadway subway, now earning over $700K as CEO of Metro Vancouver or the current Premier’s density crusade, destroying livable and affordable housing for pre election photo-ops at high rise development sites.
The ICBC “dumpster fire” continues, only with the present premier stoking the fires.
One of the key phrases for the next election will be “Transit Oriented Development” or TOD and will be used by the NDP to sell their hackneyed schemes, yet I doubt any one who speaks about TOD, has any clue about the meaning.
When our politicians spend more money on spin doctors and not on real experts in transportation, you know they are in denial.
When the mainstream media, both print, electronic, and social, ban people’s peoples letters and/or comments on transportation issues, you know they are in denial.
When politcans force people to buy electric cars as the real cure for global warming, you know they are in denial.
It is not going to end well!
Heal quickly and change the things that brought the attack, in the first place. Get rest, the site, Skytrain, LRT will still be there when you are ready to come back.
Get well soon Malcolm, the better you are, the better you are to continue the campaign in Vancouver & the Fraser Valley.
My wife has put back her retirement date to spring 2025, thus we will be rescheduling our vacation in BC
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Nothing wrong with the sky train. It follows the same routes of the original street cars. Sky train is fast and connects all the main city centres. Last weekend, went to the airport and it only took about 25 minutes from downtown. That is a lot faster than the old bus to the airport and cheaper than the previous private airport express bus.
Nothing wrong except you are paying up to 10 times more for SkyTrain for a more expensive less user-friendly servcie. I little birdie told me that the cars for the Expo and millennium Lines may be out of production by the end of 2025.
Only thing struck wrongly with TransLink is employee wages and negotiations with union. At BCRTC and CMBC 3 / 4 in wages just alone for operation. 1 / 4 in parts and contracted work in operations.
Zwei replies: Wages account for 70% to 80% of operating costs of nay transit system.