A Tram for All Seasons
Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer Praise for our ice-beating tram staff from the people of Croydon AMID the gridlocked roads, cancelled trains and rerouted buses, there was one form of transport that remained on the right track during last week’s snowfall. Croydon’s trams weathered the conditions to run a near-perfect […]
Good News Story
Croydon residents praise Tramlink heroes for keeping service running through snow Croydon Guardian http://www.croydonguardian.co.uk/news/8721876.Residents_praise_Tramlink_/ As trains were cancelled throughout last week and buses struggled to get around due to icy roads, Croydonai??i??s Tramlink managed to run a regular service. A heroic effort from the Tramlink team mean the service was, at times, the only reliable […]
Light Rail & Tram systems do not stop for snow!
From Thursday 17 December 2009 to Friday 15 January 2010 the United Kingdom experienced a spell of very low temperatures and significant snowfalls which affected almost the whole country. This was the most widespread and prolonged spell of this type across the UK since December 1981/January 1982. Large areas of England, Wales and Northern Ireland […]
Croydon Tramlink in the Snow
The bad weather of January 2010 presented an excellent opportunity to photograph Britains premier Tram system coping with the adverse weather conditions. Despite huge amounts of chaos on the roads and railways throughout the south east of England, the trams were running normally and were very well used . http://www.simplonpc.co.uk/Photoblog_20100106_Croydon.html
Vancouver’s Olympic Streetcar Line Wins The LRTA’s Worldwide Project Of The Year Award!
Good news everyone, Vancouver’s Olympic LineAi??has wonAi??the Light Rail Transit Association’s www.lrta.org Worldwide project of the year award. There were two winners in this category, the Olympic Line and the new LRT line in Kayseray, Turkey, which both came in on time and on budget.. Below, the now disused Olympic Line in Vancouver. Below, theAi??award […]
Rail For The Valley In The International News Again!
Rail for the Valley and the RftV/Leewood report is featured again in an international publication. In the December issue of Tramways & Urban Transit (the official magazine of the Light Rail Transit Association) is a two page feature of the RftV/Leewood report. As the magazine is distributed not only to LRTA members but internationally as well, […]
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 […]
News and Letters A?ai??i??ai??? October 27, 2010
Local news & Letters Chilliwack Progress# http://www.bclocalnews.com/fraser_valley/theprogress/opinion/letters/105729548.html William Chambers has very succinctly scored with a well landed punch on Sharon Gaetz, with this one. Ai??Ai??Also in the Chilliwack Times http://www.chilliwacktimes.com/news/High+cost+rail+just+myth/3727555/story.html Ai??Ai??Langley Times# Metro urged to recant rapid transit priority for Surrey http://www.bclocalnews.com/surrey_area/langleytimes/news/105694708.html Two more overpasses planned for Langleys Ai??Ai??http://www.bclocalnews.com/surrey_area/langleytimes/news/105490118.html Ai??Ai??Surrey Leader# Make Bond use transit […]
Mayors, Premier and Transportation Minister to meet next week – The Blind Leading the Blind
Talk about the blind leading the blind. BC Transportation Minister, Shirley Bond (who knows little or nothing about transit), the besieged premier (who knows that building glitzy metro lines buys votes), and regional mayors (who are equally unread on transit) are going to have a private meeting regarding TransLink’s ongoing financial crisis. The first hing […]
Smart Growth. A look into Cities, Urban planning, and the Sustainable Movement.
A reader of this blog has kindly given ‘Zwei’ some links about Smart Growth around the world and they are very much well worth having a look. http://smarturbandesign.blogspot.com/2009/04/mall-of-america-and-minneapolis-light.html http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0BQQ/is_8_41/ai_81104210/ http://www.friends4expo.org/ltrail.htm http://www.drcog.org/documents/LRT%20and%20TOD.pdf http://www.thespec.com/article/717530 http://www.mindspring.com/~tbgray/lrtmaps.htm
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