Transit Planning in the Vancouver Region – The Years The Locusts Have Eaten
In the beginning, Vancouver was serviced by a sizable streetcar network and several interurban lines, but by 1960 the streetcars were long gone and the last interurban route saw its final service. There was a last ditch attempt to operate a New Westminster to Vancouver interurban service on the Central Park Line using coupled pairs […]
It is interesting how TransLink has used this cunning method of manipulating analysis to justify SkyTrain in corridor after corridor, and has thus succeeded in keeping its proprietary rail system expanding.
The Great transit philosopher’s stone, the Evergreen Line saga continues and it is once again time for Rail for the Valley how suspect TransLink’s business case for the (N)Evergreen Line was. In, 2008 Gerald Fox, a well known American transit and transportation expert shredded TransLink’s Evergreen Line business case and found it grossly biased in […]
Light Rail for Surrey The WKW Line ai??i?? A Rerun from May 2011
It has been over one year since this post was printed and in that year nothing of substance has been done. In the lower mainland, transit is designed to increase density, thus increasing property values and profits for friends of the government at the expense of the taxpayer. The same is true forLRT/streetcar for […]
A Poll That TransLink Wishes To Suppress
Reprinted from May 2010 A very strange thing happened yesterday with ‘Zwei’. When I was discussing a transit matter with an US transit type about the RAV/Canada line. He told me that TransLink officials claimed that over 80% of Vancouverites supported RAV and if it were not for the high costs of the metro, […]
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 […]
Is it time to bring back the streetcar to Vancouver?
Both Stephen Rees http://stephenrees.wordpress.com/2012/04/11/is-it-time-to-bring-back-the-streetcar-to-vancouver/ and Voony http://voony.wordpress.com/2012/04/16/is-it-time-to-bring-back-the-streetcar-to-vancouver/Ai?? The motion has been launchedAi??by Vancouver-based online consultation platform PlaceSpeak https://www.placespeak.com/topic/399/streetcar-city-2050/ Vancouver is currently exploring the use of streetcars as a key element of our transition to more sustainable transportation modes. But if streetcars are to be reintroduced in todayai??i??s economic climate it is important that they are […]
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 […]
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