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 […]

EDITORIAL: TransLink faces a mutiny if it doesnai??i??t shape up – From the South Delta Leader

TransLink has a credibility problem, largely because it has not been truthful with its dealings with the public. TransLink is nothing more than a ponderous bureaucracy staffed with career bureaucrats, who live in a dated 1950’s world of public transit. With most of the regional politicians memorized by TransLink speak and where doing nothing is […]

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 […]

The Noviceai??i??s Guide to ai???Railai??? Transit Orai??i??ai??i??ai??i??ai??i?? (Updated)

ai??i??ai??i??ai??i??ai??i??..cutting through the BS about light rail, SkyTrain and BRT. The following is a guide plus definitions about “rail” transit for this coming May’s provincial election. ALM: Automatic Light Metro, the fourth marketing name given for the SkyTrain family of light-metros, when Lavalin briefly owned SkyTrain before gong bankrupt. ALRT (1): Advanced Light Rail Transit, […]

How About A TramTrain Link To Abbotsford Internationl Airport

One major destination for the RftV Vancouver to Chilliwack TramTrain is the Abbotsford International Airport and having a TramTrain connections would mean YXX could be directly reached from Vancouver, Surrey,Ai??Langley, Abbotsford, and Chilliwack. A bonus withAi??a YXX TramTrain connection would be Abbotsford’s Tradex, trade fair complexAi??would also be served by rail. Reaching the airport could […]

Quebec Corruption Inquiry: SNC-Lavalin Linked To Scheme To Raise Construction Project Prices

What happens in Quebec must surely happen in BC, asAi??SNC Lavalin has been involved with the heavily engineered SkyTrain and Canada Line light-metros. The question that must be asked; “Has the very expensive SkyTrain and Canada line light metros part of a provincial scheme to ensure healthy profits for corporate friends of the government by […]

Traffic congestion in Metro Vancouver as bad as Los Angeles. A report that TransLink will ignore!

Oh yes, TransLink is on the right path in providing an affordable public transit alternative – NOT! Vancouver faces many transportation problems, but TransLink and its very unconventional transit planning must rank as number one. As I have said before, “Transit is to move people and not money“, yet TransLink still bumbles along planning hugely […]

Is There Already An Agreement to Build A SkyTrain Subway Under Broadway?

It seems Bombardier Inc. had designed a new Advanced Rapid Transit car for each new ART system builtAi??in Vancouver, New York, and Kuala Lumpor having different designed cars. Now the Evergreen line is getting a new and improved ARTAi??Mk. 3 car. Though Vancouver and Kuala Lumpur ART cars look similar, the KL cars are taller […]

Do The SkyTrain for Surrey Lot & The MOT Have A Clue About SkyTrain? Evidently Not!

The following bit of misinformation comes from the SkyTrain for Surrey folks, who seem to continually to embarrass themselves with their ignorance of transit matters. Bombardier Wins TransLink Contract for 28 new Trains TransLink and the Government of BC have signed a contract with Bombardier for 28 new SkyTrain cars, a contract valued at $90.7 […]