Sobering News about The Regional Transit system

The following article in City Hall Watch has some sobering news, ridership has not rebounded to pre covid levels! Main article here, please click It is a rather long article, but worth a read because it illustrates TransLink’s big problem of declining ridership. Claims of increased ridership are more than questionable, but it seems higher […]

Listen To The Experts

Currently the full program to extend the Expo and Millennium Lines a mere 21.7 km will now cost in excess of $16 billion. The now, estimated cost to complete the Broadway subway to UBC is now past $8 billion. Yet the provincial government had be carried kicking and screaming to find a few million of […]

The Modern Tramway – What TransLink and Metro Mayors Do Not Want You To Know.

Several recent posts in local transit oriented blogs have denounced the modern tram as some sort of throwback in planning. Really? Public Transport is about a user friendly service that provides a quality product for the customer. In over 450 cities around the world (not including strictly Light Rail Operations), the modern tram is the […]

The NDP Are paving Paradise And Turning It Into A Parking Lot – An Updated Repost from 2021

First posted by zweisystem on Thursday, April 8, 2021 Updated. Reinstating passenger services on regional railways, it is what government should be doing, to deal with traffic congestion and pollution, but they are not, as government would rather spend money on prestigious “rapid transit” monuments to cut for photo-ops at election time. The E&N, the […]

And Over To You Mr. Cow – TransLink’s fiscal Realities

First posted by zweisystem on Wednesday, March 2, 2022 One of the RftV’s many friends, Haveacow is a Canadian transportation specialist. He uses the Avatar Haveacow because in the arcane world of Canadian and American public transportation, speaking the truth may find you out of a job. An American transportation Engineer who has helped Zwei […]

Five Reasons Why The NDP Don’t Want The “Return of the Interurban”.

This post was released on Wednesday, February 11, 2009, sixteen years ago under the title, “Five reasons Why Gordon Campbell and his ‘Falcon’ don’t want the “Return of the Interurban”. It is still relevant today, only the names have been changed, to expose the guilty. Under the NDP, nothing has changed and in fact has […]

Has TransLink Given Up?

Forget the hype and hoopla from politcans about transit; forget the well timed media releases; forget the staged photo-ops for the local papers, if any local papers have survived. The big question facing the region is; has TransLink given up? The big news is that fares are going up, yet the service provided seems unattractive […]

Memo to the M.O.T. – Time to Reread The Leewood Study – Updated

First posted by on Saturday, May 2, 2020 Now fifteen years old, the Leewood Study, done by Leewood Projects (UK), to assess the viability of reinstating a passenger rail service from downtown Vancouver to Chilliwack via the former BC Electric R.R. route, is worth a revisit. Leewood Study The Leewood Study brought a fresh set […]

Mobility Pricing – The Rapture of Megaprojects

This was first posted in 2020 and five years later mobility pricing is back on the agenda. Why? Simple, TransLink is broke. The now $16 billion price tag, for the full program to extend the Expo and Millennium Lines a mere 21.7 km has hit a financial iceberg and is $3 to $4 billion short […]

Entering The Land of Unicorns and Pixie Dust – TransLink’s Current P.R. Gamble

A re-post. First posted on Wednesday, October 13, 2021 Memo from Zweisystem: This post is from 2021, yet we still see TransLink beating the drum for more and more money, as politicians, both regional, provincial and federal are afraid to say no more money and live within your means. All financial numbers will be updated […]