What Fools We Mortal Be – Regional Mayors Support Road Tolling
I see many civic politicians are gambling with theirAi??political futuresAi??with taxpayer’s hubrisAi??by supportingAi??road tolling. Are they mad? Evidently so, as they all seem to have collective amnesia over the HST fiasco, which saw the humiliation of just reelected Premier Gordon Campbell beingAi??chased from office. It seems tax and spend transit policies are the order of […]
Road tolls coming – welcome to tax and spend TransLink
Road tolls, the clarion call of tax and spend bureaucrats and politicians. What the boys and girls wanting road tolls or road pricing is more taxpayers money to waste on nextAi??to useless SkyTrain expansion, new posh offices, and ever higher salaries; better public transit is just an excuse, but not in the cards. For road […]
TransLink Menace to Society in Metro Vancouver
Eric Chris takes on TransLink! The following is a copy of a “letter to the editor“, that a Mr. Eric Chris sent to the Vancouver ProvinceAi??newspaper. Well researched, Chris exposes theAi??TransLink’s current charade with its involvement with regional transit. As well, he has determined the real cost of the Canada Line mini-metro, which according toAi??Chris’s […]
Vancouver’s Streetcar (Tram) Planning – TransLink Boldly Plans For The 1940’s
Recent comments on various transit blogs, by representatives of TransLink only confirm that TransLink does not wish to build with light rail and their current LRT/streetcar/tram planning for Vancouver is woefully dated. It has been mentioned several times in the past month that a 2010 news item from Karlsruhe Germany, that the main tram line […]
A day in gridlocked Richmond
Zwei had business to conduct in Richmond yesterday and it was my first time I have driven around the municipality in many years. Yes, ‘Zwei‘ ventures to Landsdown Mall to rescue his wife from TransLink when she works late in Vancouver several times a week, but that is late at night and traffic is light. […]
TransLink and the Canada Line – The real story – Part 2
It even gets better! More from the email I received Monday and what a bombshell! If the following is to believed and I believe very strongly it is true, TransLink is doing a very poor, yet very expensive job in moving transit customers. This why TransLink and the provincial government are deathly afraid of an […]
TransLink and the Canada Line – The real story
The following was emailed to me last night and contains some explosive comments about TransLink and the RAV/Canada Line. Rand Chatterjee is one of the very few people who took the time to research the cost of the RAV/Canada Line and he clearly understands the nuances of the P-3 contract and the negative impact on […]
North American light rail systems
Modern LRT is reasonably cheap to build, when compared with metro type systems, but in NorthAi??America transit planners have done the impossible, they have planned LRT to be more expensive than a metro to build.Ai?? Such stupidity should be stopped at once! From the Globe and Mail. This maybe of some interest, but the cost […]
High Costs For LRT In Waterloo Ontario Questioned! Is LRT Being Designed as a Money Pit?
It seems well known light rail advocate, Malcolm Johnston, Ai??is at it again, sticking his nose in other peoples light rail business, butAi??there there is a very good point for his interest in Canadian light rail projects, as they are farAi??more expensive when compared to new build European light rail lines. Also in the fray […]
Ida Chong is afraid to order an audit of TransLink! Those damned skeletons in the closet!
Well, good old ‘Zwei’ has been arguing for this for over a decade, but the BC Liberal government and the Liberal lickspital minister in charge of TransLink, Ida Chong, is afraid to order an audit of TransLink. Why? Audits have a strange way of uncovering misspent monies or dubious bookkeeping Ai??practices or evenAi??more sinister wastes […]
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