List of Cities, With Populations Under 100,000 Operating Trams Or Light Rail

Zwei often hears the tired old saw that “we don’t have the population for light rail or the alternative, light rail does not have the capacity to deal with traffic flows that SkyTrain can. The “Good Burghers” in Bath England are countering this debate by actually listing 40 cities that have populations of 100,000 (with […]

SkyTrain Really Isn’t A Regional Distance Based, Rapid Transit System

First published in 2022, this post remains extremity relevant today. Four years have gone by and the cost today of the Expo Line extension to Surrey is now estimated at $7 billion and that is just for the guideway, which the federal government is paying 40%of the cost. Zwei has been told privately that the […]

Trams Having Limited Capacity? – SURELY NOT!

The “gelb wand” (yellow wall) of trams in Karlsruhe Germany With the the Province; the City of  Vancouver and TransLink continued selling big porkies about LRT, the following will be enlightening! The ongoing planning and construction charade currently being played out by the usual suspects including cities of Vancouver & Surrey, TransLink and the provincial […]

Lausanne’s New Tramway

Lausnne, Switzerland, with a population 144,000 and a regional population of 420,000, is building a new tramway, The city also has a two line metro system, with one line using rubber tired metro’s based on the Paris metro and the other metro line using light rail vehicles. The high cost of metro construction has now […]

Toronto Reboots Scarborough LRT Plans

Eglinton Further East: City Council Reboots Scarborough LRT Plans Why Light Rail? The answer is simple: FLEXIBILITY Despite a sort of “character assassination” by the media and metro crowd, LRT still remains the most built rail urban and suburban transit mode in the world. The reason is simple as it provides the best bang for […]

Toronto’s Transit Failures – Or Not Listening To The Experts!

The problem in Canada, with “rail” transit, especially light rail (LRT) is that politcans get involved and when politicians get involved, costs rise dramatically. Unlike Europe, Canadian University’s do not offer degrees in Urban Transport and the vast majority of Engineers and Planners who work on transit projects have little knowledge of what “light rail” […]

YouTube Does Not, A Transit Expert, Make

I was sent a following link The Transit “Experts” That Derail Transit. (click here) It is by a fairly well known YouTube type who has ‘taken the wrong tack’, but he has a large following. It is obvious that the author has a preference for metros and a disdain for light rail and in fact […]

The Eglinton Story (Part2)

Please click here for part 1. Off the track Meddling politicians, a massive contract, multimillion-dollar lawsuits and a pandemic have turned the Eglinton Crosstown LRT into a 14-year project Jeff GrayQueen’s Park Reporter Toronto The Globe and Mail Published October 30, 2025 The eventual outcome on Eglinton, Mr. Miller charges, was predictable: The TTC had […]

The Eglinton Story (Part 1)

Off the track I do not know enough about Toronto’s Eglinton’s new LRT, to accurately comment on the project; only that portions of the system is definitely not LRT. That being said, this two part series from the Globe and Mail will help inform those on the other side of the mountains about this hugely […]

Facts Don’t Seem To Matter – UBC Students Gaslights The Truth.

Gaslighting:  a form of psychological manipulation in which a person or a group covertly sows seeds of doubt in a targeted individual or group, making them question their own memory, perception, or judgment, often evoking in them cognitive dissonance and other changes including low self-esteem. Using denial, misdirection, contradiction, and misinformation, gaslighting involves attempts to […]