A John Buker Re-Post From 2009 – Prendergastai??i??s parting words on Rail for the Valley

A re-post from 2009. Tom Prendergast, who was briefly CEO at TransLink, left (or was forced out) after just over a year at the post because of the Skytrain lobby. The SkyTrain Lobby still holds great sway with transit planning in Metro Vancouver, which is very bad news for the taxpayer. Too bad that the […]

A 0.5 per cent TransLink sales tax?

In an obvious headline grabbing event, a near dormant transit group, proposes a 0.5% sales tax to fund TransLink. Big mistake. The problem with transit in the Vancouver Metro region is TransLink itself and its firm belief that the more money one spends on transit the better it is. It is a recipe for financial […]

TramTrain News

Next stop Rotherham: Sheffieldai??i??s new Tram Trains 15 Aug 2013 The concept of Tram Train is a vehicle that operates as a tram on the tramway and a train on heavy rail, offering a seamless journey to the passenger into the heart of city centres and relieving capacity from mainline stations while taking the passengers […]

The TransLink House of Cards

This recent piece in the Surrey Leader make for unpleasant times at the ‘House of TransLink‘. TransLink is broken and all the provincial politicians and all the civic politicians can’t put TransLink back together again. OPINION: Who’s behind the wheel at TransLink By Contributed – Surrey North Delta Leader Published: August 07, 2013 Who is […]

TransLink Useless?

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. Peter Drucker After attending a large commercial event, the recurring complaint was how badly the were operated and how deaf TransLink was for change. As the annual event runs on the August long weekend, bus service to South Delta […]

Bring It On!

It seems the message is getting through and the recent pouts and threats from TransLink officials about drastic cuts to local transit services, if road pricing is not implemented, is falling on rather deaf ears, especially south of the Fraser River. TransLink’s ponderous bureaucracy just cannot provide a decent transit service now, how can the […]

TransLink and The Sun Sing The Same Old Transit Blues

The Vancouver Sun is back shilling for TransLink and ‘road-pricing’; too bad, because TransLink seems to be wanting to do the same old expensive and unworkable transit planning, which has failed in the past; expecting different results this time. Not going to happen. Throwing more money at TransLink will not bring change, only higher wage […]

Letters to the Editor – The Return of the Interurban

Tuesday, July 23: All aboard! Bring back the InterurbanVancouver SunJuly 22, 2013 Terry Nichols of the Fraser Valley Heritage Railway Society operates the societyai??i??s recently restored BC Elecrtric Railway 1225 Interurban railcar at the Cloverdale Station in Surrey on Wednesday, July 17, 2013. Photograph by: Ric Ernst, Vancouver Sun Re: The return of the Interurban, […]

Stadler LRV’s – Croydon [London] Tramlink

An official video promoting the new Stadler trams and Croydon Tramlink. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR-paeQhIXU and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRMvP-WC0ms

Ai??koda 30T – a new LRV in Europe

Ai??koda Transportation won the tram tender in Bratislava PlzeA?/Bratislava, 18. 7. 2013 ai??i?? Today, the company Ai??koda Transportation signed the contract for the supply of trams for the Slovakian metropolis Bratislava. It concerns fifteen two-way modern trams for the price of 39 millions of Euros (975 millions of Czech crowns). The tender also includes the […]