A letter worth reading!

Mr. Brussac knows transit. He has lived and traveled in Europe and is well acquainted with transit operation and fare collection and his letters are always worth a read, as one learns something from them. Comparison to Europeai??i??s system childish Published: August 20, 2013 The Editor, One of TransLinkai??i??s talking heads justified the cancellation of […]

Another TransLink Epic Fail

Really, one is almost speechless, watching TransLink imploding under one bad decision after another. Message to BC Minister of Transportation, Todd Stone; “Quit your hiding in Kamloops and put a stop to TransLink’s ongoing nonsense.” It is time for regime change. TransLink spending $100K on office space in Surrey TransLink says itai??i??s having trouble finding […]

TramTrain News

Next stop Rotherham: Sheffieldai??i??s new Tram Trains 15 Aug 2013 The concept of Tram Train is a vehicle that operates as a tram on the tramway and a train on heavy rail, offering a seamless journey to the passenger into the heart of city centres and relieving capacity from mainline stations while taking the passengers […]

EDITORIAL: Compass Card blunder will cost TransLink

From the South Delta Leader. EDITORIAL: Compass Card blunder will cost TransLink By Editorial – South Delta Leader Published: August 16, 2013 With TransLink set to role out the new Compass Card fare system next year, comes word this week that after investing more than $170 million in new faregates, TransLink buses will no longer […]

TransLink Digs An Even bigger Hole For Itself

One has to laugh and cry at the same time. Right on the heels of the discovery that when the Compass Card regime comes into being not allowing bus transfers on the SkyTrain and Canada Line light-metro systems, TransLink’s top bureaucrats are getting pay hikes. This, at the time when TransLink is crying poverty and […]

SkyTrain won’t take bus transfers with Compass Card system. When You Have idiots running The Show…………………

……………………..don’t be surprised at the results. The new Compass fare card/fare gate regime, imposed on TransLink by the BC Liberal government, now means that bus transfers will no longer be accepted on SkyTrain! Where did I learn about this utterly incompetent decision? From the throw away commuter newspaper 24 Hours! Where is the mainstream media […]

The TransLink House of Cards

This recent piece in the Surrey Leader make for unpleasant times at the ‘House of TransLink‘. TransLink is broken and all the provincial politicians and all the civic politicians can’t put TransLink back together again. OPINION: Who’s behind the wheel at TransLink By Contributed – Surrey North Delta Leader Published: August 07, 2013 Who is […]

Bring It On!

It seems the message is getting through and the recent pouts and threats from TransLink officials about drastic cuts to local transit services, if road pricing is not implemented, is falling on rather deaf ears, especially south of the Fraser River. TransLink’s ponderous bureaucracy just cannot provide a decent transit service now, how can the […]

Eric Chris Writes a Letter to the Times.

Eric Chris is a chemical engineer and with his analytical background he can see through TransLink’s transit verbal diarrhea and understand the real problems facing TransLink. The same was true with the late Des Turner, who was also a chemical engineer (who worked for Shell Oil) and upon retirement, went back to university and studied […]

TransLink and The Sun Sing The Same Old Transit Blues

The Vancouver Sun is back shilling for TransLink and ‘road-pricing’; too bad, because TransLink seems to be wanting to do the same old expensive and unworkable transit planning, which has failed in the past; expecting different results this time. Not going to happen. Throwing more money at TransLink will not bring change, only higher wage […]