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 […]

UBC and Vancouver Embarrass Themselves, Demanding a Subway

Universities used to be a place of learning and education, but today, UBC makes a mockery of education with their support of a Broadway subway. The sheer ignorance of UBC demanding a subway is appalling and one questions the “intelligence” of those making such an expensive demand! In the real world, subways are only considered […]

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

Cycling and Light Rail – They Do Get Along

A comment on the previous post about the ability of trams and bicycles to ‘get along’, clearly illustrates the bicycle/tram myth, that bicyclists and trams or streetcars can not cohabit on the same road. The small flange-way does not pose a risk, except for the mostAi?? blind cyclist and the safety claims being made against […]

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 […]

From the North Shore News – TransLink’s budget woes tied to SkyTrain

Liz James is one of the few media scribes that has actually taken the time to study and understand our “tricky dickey” regional transit, as brought to you by TransLink. With most of the mainstream media in Translink’s pocket, little real news and views are offered and instead a pablum of regurgitated “tax and spend” […]

A Question of Capacity ai??i?? A LRTA Topic Sheet

Contrary to the COV and TransLink, modern LRT can obtain high capacities, on transit routes, by being able to operate at close headways.Ai??Today, the main tram route through the city is being relocated in a subway because the line was seeing 45 second headways during peak hours, giving an nominal capacity exceeding 40,000 persons per […]

Metro Vancouver mayors call for new fees, taxes to fund transit

Well they areAi??back at it, the regional mayors (I should say well paid regional mayors) are asking for more of our money to fund SkyTrain. Yes, that what it boils down to, more money to fund SkyTrain. Our regional mayors tend to think they are transit experts, but with the exception of Burnaby’s Derrek Corrigan […]