Chilliwack passenger rail supporters: Volunteers, donations needed!
Attention Chilliwack supporters of passenger rail… Rail For the Valley plans to be a major presence at Chilliwack's Party in the Park this summer, and we need volunteers. Party in the Park http://www.downtownchilliwack.com/page.php?id=55 Friday evenings in July and August, at Central Community Park (corner of Victoria and Young) beginning THIS FRIDAY. Through our Society, we […]
Will They Or Won’t They – The (N)Evergreen Line Debate and The 40,000 Person Question
Like a good soap opera, the Evergreen Line debate goes on. Again, a BC premier has appointed a Minister of Transportation who hasn't an inkling about modern public transportation, metro, and light rail, with the obvious reason of being held to the mercy of his bureaucrats. There is more BS about SkyTrain and […]
News Flash – SkyTrain down again
Here we go again. SkyTrain, as with all other automatic metros, has an Achilles heel – they stop working and more frequently as the metro ages. This is not a problem for light rail, as it is designed to operate when there are minor glitches. But there is another problem with TransLink and its SkyTrain "transit backbone" […]
Copenhagen to get light-rail network by 2020: transport ministry
LRT in Copenhagen One welcomes the announcement that Copenhagen will have its first tram/LRT line built by 2020. In several transit oriented blogs, much has been made that the Danish capital, Copenhagen, opted to have a driverless metro, instead of light rail. Automatic metro is the way of the future, was the clarion call by many […]
The Nevergreen Line saga continues
Mayor Trasolini adds his two cents worth in the Evergreen line debate. Nowhere in the letter does he admit that SkyTrain is just too expensive to build and/or that the SkyTrain light-metro system is a dated transit mode, made obsolete by much cheaper and just as effective light rail. Until regional and provincial politicians actually […]
Metro mayors pitch ideas to keep Evergreen Line from going off the rails
Looks like the regional mayors are trying to save face with the delay in building the Evergreen Line. How about just saying no. Regional mayors should tell the Minister of Transportation and TransLink this: "If your government compels TransLink to plan and build with the proprietary SkyTrain light-metro system, then your government should pay the […]
Translink and the Interurban
As most of you know, the latest transit proposals from Translink have once again neglected the Interurban. Something had to be said. Here is my Letter to the Editor, now published in the Surrey Leader and other local papers. Interurban gets rough ride from TransLink Published: June 16, 2011 12:00 PM Updated: June 16, 2011 12:23 PM […]
SkyTrain justifications are way off track
It seems The North Shore News’s Liz James has scored a direct hit with her most recent article andAi??I hope the rest of the Post Media papers pick this up and print it. BC Transit and now TransLink has made the LRT/SkyTrain debate an idealogicalAi??one and not a debate about what is best for the […]
Around Canada
A column published by The National Post says Toronto has a fetish for streetcars and what the city really needs is more rapid transit subways to make it a world class urban area. The commentary compares Toronto with London and its Tube system:http://life.nationalpost.com/2011/06/10/kelvin-browne-derailed-by-the-spacehog-streetcar/ Every city with aspirations for greatness insists on good transit, and subways […]
A letter about light rail, the Vancouver Sun refuses to print.
It is strange that the pro-SkyTrain Vancouver Sun printed an article about the proposed Victoria LRT project, unless the Sun wanted to cool the anti-Evergreen Line, pro-LRT stance taken by many regional mayors, especially mayor Watts of Surrey. The gist of the Victoria story….. http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Opinion+plan+Victoria+mayor+nervously+eyeing+bill/4917237/story.html#ixzz1Oshzwu6NBy …. is that LRT is also very expensive and that […]
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