Rail for the Valley News in the EUROPEAN Press!

Ha, ha, ha……… If TransLink, the provincial government and the Vancouver Sun don't think the Rail for the Valley/Leewood TramTrain report isn't worth responding too, Railway Strategies do. Here we have a situation of the RftV/Leewood report being deemed more important overseas than in the Vancouver metro area! This just furthers the evidence that our […]

Let’s NOT make a Deal A?ai??i??ai??? Property tax hike for transit only choice before mayors

TransLink is at it again, playing brinkmanship with regional mayors and I hope the valley politicos see through this tawdry charade, which has become a clichA?Ai?? for TransLink’s haphazard planning efforts. Behind door number 1, you have option A Ai??Ai??behind door number 2, you have option B; behind door number 3, you have option A […]

Let’s NOT make a Deal A?ai??i??ai??? Property tax hike for transit only choice before mayors

TransLink is at it again, playing brinkmanship with regional mayors and I hope the valley politicos see through this tawdry charade, which has become a clichA?Ai?? for TransLink’s haphazard planning efforts. Behind door number 1, you have option A Ai??Ai??behind door number 2, you have option B; behind door number 3, you have option A […]

Ottawa’s troubled tram.

The light rail saga in Ottawa continues with the realization that monies spent on a politcally prestigious subway tunnel comes from extending the transit line to servcie transit customers. Zweisystem is in complete agreement with the following and I have posed about Ottawa's LRT escapades earlier. Ottawa transit authorities had need not look any further […]

Ottawa’s troubled tram.

The light rail saga in Ottawa continues with the realization that monies spent on a politcally prestigious subway tunnel comes from extending the transit line to servcie transit customers. Zweisystem is in complete agreement with the following and I have posed about Ottawa’s LRT escapades earlier. Ottawa transit authorities had need not look any further […]

Ottawa’s troubled tram.

The light rail saga in Ottawa continues with the realization that monies spent on a politcally prestigious subway tunnel comes from extending the transit line to servcie transit customers. Zweisystem is in complete agreement with the following and I have posed about Ottawa’s LRT escapades earlier. Ottawa transit authorities had need not look any further […]

Rail for the Valley in the news – November 3, 2010

The Common Sense Canadian Bringing Back the Interurban Line: Key to our Transportation Future Lies in the Past http://thecanadian.org/k2/item/325-interurban-2 Aldergrove Star Rail for the Valley not giving up http://www.bclocalnews.com/surrey_area/aldergrovestar/opinion/letters/105375358.html Chilliwack Times Careful what you wish for http://www.chilliwacktimes.com/opinion/editorials/Careful+what+wish/3745937/story.html Langley Times TransLink has become a virus http://www.bclocalnews.com/surrey_area/langleytimes/opinion/letters/106150418.html Surrey Leader Tax on tax is not enough for TransLink […]

The Budapest HA?ai??i??V System A?ai??i??ai??? Budapest’s Interurban

Although not a classicAi??Ai??tram or light rail system, the Budapest HA?ai??i??V system deservesAi??Ai??a mentioning, because the rail line combines on-street operation (on a reserved rights-of-ways) in downtown Csepel, as well as classic railway operation. SeeAi??Ai??the HA?ai??i??V System Ai??Ai??http://hampage.hu/trams/thg2bp/csepel.html

The Vogtlandbahn TramTrains & Interurbans A Template For The Valley Interurban

The following is a summery of the Vogtlandbahn TramTrain operation in Germany. Contrary to TransLink’s (and Metro Vancouver and Liberal government) spin that one needs oodles & oodles of density for ‘rail‘ transit, the continues success of new TramTrain operations dispels the many negative myths. The SkyTrain lobby is also desperately hard at work spreading […]

News About the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway

PASSENGER TRAIN SERVICE EXPANSION PROPOSED Oct 26, 2010 THE ISLAND CORRIDOR FOUNDATION HAS UNVEILED THE FIRST STAGE OF ITS PROPOSAL TO EXPAND PASSENGER TRAIN SERVICE ON VANCOUVER ISLAND.Ai?? EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR GRAHAM BRUCE MADE THE ANNOUNCEMENT TODAY…Ai?? “We’ve made formal application to VIA Rail to move the terminus from Victoria to Nanaimo and initiate an early […]