The Fruit of the Poisonous Tree
This post, first appeared in 2010, yet the very same problems exist withAi??Trans Link today. In the Vancouver regional area, change happens at a glacial pace. The Fruit of the Poisonous Tree ai??i?? TransLink’s Regional Transit Planning Posted by zweisystem on Wednesday, October 13, 2010 – reprinted May 30, 2012 Fruit of the poisonous tree […]
Eric Chris Responds to the SkyTrain Lobby
Eric Chris also respondsAi??to Mr. Cruz’s letter to the Langley Advance. Lies becoming believable Langley AdvanceMayAi?? 29, 2012 Read more: http://www.langleyadvance.com/Lies+becoming+believable/6693741/story.html#ixzz1wNdPYZAy Dear Editor, The unbelievable posting [SkyTrain boosting profits, May 24 Letters,Ai?? www.langleyadvance.com] from SkyTrain for Surrey, the friends of TransLink, leftAi?? me disgusted. Profits for SkyTrain are better than ever, say friends of TransLink, […]
Rail for the Valley Rsponds to the SkyTrain Lobby
Malcolm Johnston, from Rail for the Valley responds to Mr. Cruz’s pro-SkyTrain letter from last week. Transportation: LRT beats SkyTrain, hands down Langley AdvanceMayAi?? 29, 2012 Read more: http://www.langleyadvance.com/life/Transportation+beats+SkyTrain+hands+down/6695420/story.html#ixzz1wI8dyeQD Dear Editor, I read in absolute amazement a letter full of invented and twisted facts by aAi?? Mr. Cruz, supporting SkyTrain [SkyTrain boosting profits, May 24 […]
Surface LRT will “corrupt” rail system
In a letter to the Langley Advance, a spokesman for “SkyTrain for Surrey” says adding surface light rail to the Vancouver area rail transit system will “corrupt” the efficiency and cost recovery of the existing rapid transit system: http://www.langleyadvance.com/TransLink+SkyTrain+boosting+profits/6672346/story.html This is the link to the letter that, Daryl Dela Cruz ofAi??SkyTrain for Surrey objects to: […]
The Emperor has no Clothes and no Transit – First published in March 2011
Zwei has decided to reprint this post from March of last year. In the ensuing year nothing has changed; the same oldAi??tired cast of characters trundling out the same old tired transit plans,Ai??desperately tryingAi??to convinceAi??the ever increasingly skeptical taxpayerAi??to ante up more and more tax money to fund transit improvements that everyone knows will fail […]
Eric Chris on the West Coast Express and TransLink Ridership in General
Eric Chris takes on TransLink’s appalling history of exaggerating ridership on Vancouver’s metro transit system. Zwei has known since the mid 1980’s that BC Transit exaggerated ridership on the SkyTrain Expo Line to impress visiting transit types, but they were not fooled as they could see that the light loadings on the mini-metro did not […]
TramTrain Trial OK’ed in the UK
TramTrain is coming to South Yorkshire, in the UK. If TramTrain passes muster with her Majesty’s Railway Inspectorate, it would past muster in BC for operation in metro Vancouver. The real question, of course, is why TransLink must be forced kicking and screaming to accept TramTrain as a 21st century transit mode? From the LRTA […]
Provincial Auditors Ignore SkyTrain – TransLink’s Financial Chaos Will Continue
What is interesting about this item in the Vancouver Sun, is that provincial auditors, looking for maintenace cost savings in TransLink, are ingoring the SkyTrain light-metro system and I wonder why? “The report, which didnai??i??t examine maintenance costs for SkyTrain ai??i?? run by BC Rapid Transit Co. ai??i?? suggested TransLink must ai???re-evaluate maintenance services and […]
“Lightness” of light rail
TransLink, BC Transit, SNC Lavalin, UBC, SFU, and a host of North American Engineering firms, please take note! ThisAi??”lightness” of light rail – a combination of flexibility, low impact,Ai??modest cost, and environmental softness – is ephemeral. It mustAi??be carefullyAi??guarded. Ignorance orAi??ineptitude during the planning, design, specification writing, engineering, orAi??construction phases of a project can lose […]
City ordered to address railway-crossing safety
It seems the City of Abbotsford can’t deal with a simple rail crossing in the city and is hiring flaggers at a cost of $500 a day to control the railway crossing. This is something reminiscent of 1820’s England where a man on a horse waving a red flag had to precede early trains. My […]
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