TransLink, The City of Vancouver, and the SkyTrain Lobby Practice Lysenkoism

The SkyTrain Lobby Is Watching You! Lysenkoism: describes the manipulation or distortion of the scientific process as a way to reach a predetermined conclusion as dictated by an ideological bias, often related to social or political objectives. IgnoringAi?? the fact that the proprietary SkyTrain mini-metro system has been rejected by transit planners around the world […]

A Letter To BC’s Auditor General John Doyle

Long time light rail advocate, Malcolm Johnston, has sent a letter to John Doyle, BC’s Auditor General regarding the recent Evergreen Line audit. To the point, if LRT vehicles have higher passenger capacities than Skytrain cars; are cheaper to supply than Skytrain cars and LRT can be built on much cheaper rights-of-ways and operate at […]

Sorry Mr. Doyle, You Are Wrong!

Sorry to say, BC’s soon to be departing Auditor General, John Doyle has got it wrong about SkyTrain and LRT capacity, but then in BC, what is true elsewhere tends not to true here. “John Doyle’s latest audit concludes SkyTrain and not light rail was the best option because of its greater capacity at similar […]

The Broadway Follies Part 1 – From April 2010

Going even further back in the ‘way-back machine’, here is a re-post from April 2010, concerning the Broadway Corridor. In three years nothing has changed, except for the volumes of anti-LRT rhetoric from TransLink and the City of Vancouver and the City of Vancouver’s love for subways is now revealed for all to see …. […]

The Broadway Gong Show Revisited

Back by popular demand, the Broadway gong show. Broadway Transit Follies ai??i?? TransLink Does The Gong Show ai??i?? Part 2 Posted by zweisystem on Thursday, March 31, 2011 Want to know how TransLink spends taxpayer’s hard earned money? It is easy, TransLink studies transit options for Broadway. TransLink’s Broadway “Rapid Transit” (which means metro) study […]

TransLink’s numbers challenged

Long time transit advocate Malcolm Johnston has scored a direct hit on TransLink. For too long TransLink has manipulated planning to favour SkyTrain and with so many new light rail lines being built, it is hard for TransLink to hide from the truth any longer. One only wonders, how TransLink will reply or will they […]

TransLink Decieves Surrey – Planning Flim-Flam Continues

Hey buddy, want to buy a good used car” Then go to ‘Honest‘ TransLink and they will fit you up nicely. Well it seems that TransLink has fitted up Surrey and Langley nicely with their very questionable “rapid transit plans“. As usual TransLink deceives the public about LRT and one has to ask the question […]

Why we build with LRT – Updated

Why we build with LRT First posted by Zweisystem on Friday, December 12, 2008 (updated) What is Light Rail Transit or more commonly known as LRT? According to the Light Rail Transit Association (www.lrta.org) Light rail is a mode that can deal economically with traffic flows of between 2,000 and 20,000 passengers per hour per […]

Surrey Citizens Transportation Initiative (Surrey CiTI) is hosting a rally

Letters in the Tri City News

A sampling ofAi??letters printed in the Tri city News. Mayors must stop being sucked in on TransLink funding Published: February 12, 2013 1:00 PM The Editor, Re. ai???Polak undecided on proposed taxai??? (The Tri-City News, Feb. 8). As P.T. Barnum said, ai???There is a sucker born every minute.ai??? And it seems Metro Vancouver mayors are […]