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 […]

TransLink’s Sinking Ship

Zwei has been wondering why all the rah-rah SkyTrain posts on You Tube and it seems the answer is, ridership is collapsing on this gold plated transit system. This is very bad news because falling ridership equates to reduced service and reduced service translates to fewer buses and higher fares. Then there is the now […]

European Rail Boom Continues – Canada/BC Flounders

As Canada flounders, with BC in particular, with any sort of passenger rail revival, Europe is leading the way with the current passenger rail renaissance. HST, on the Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal route is being built more for politcal prestige, than anything else. If any government is truly interested in mitigating the effects of Global Warming […]

A reality check for the Broadway Subway – Are you Listening Mike Farnsworth?

The following is a letter received from Rail for the Valley www.railforthevalley.com, a great source of information, commentary, and analysis on transportation planning issues, with a special focus on the Metro Vancouver region. This is in partial response to recent media coverage, including almost non stop postings in the media and on YouTube and other […]

Telling The Truth About Transit In Metro Vancouver, Is A Revolutionary Act

The problem with the current transit system is simple, those in charge are doing the same thing over again, expecting different results. Not working! What is needed is a complete rethought how transit service is provided, based on customer needs and not TransLink’s or Victoria’s political needs. TransLink’s ridership has been in decline for almost […]

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 […]

The Pied Piper of SkyTrain

Evidently, the 16km Expo Line to Langley is in trouble, so who else to defend this hugely expensive project but the folks at SkyTrain for Surrey, otherwise known as FOX Entertainment North. The claims made by SFS are breathtaking and needs serious comment. True to form, the deliberate misinformation by SkyTrain for Surrey is again […]

TransLink for Dummies – Updated

TransLink for Dummies ……….. or cutting through the BS about Local Transit. The following is a guide plus definitions. ALM: Automatic Light metro, the fourth marketing name given for the SkyTrain family of light-metros, when Lavalin briefly owned SkyTrain before going bankrupt. ALRT (1): Advanced Light Rail Transit, the second marketing name after ICTS for […]

Des Sain-Bel to Lyon TramTrain

The West Lyon tram-train is a French light rail network, whose ticketing is integrated into the TER Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes service, connecting the center of the metropolis of Lyon to the west of the city The service was partially inaugurated from Lyon-Saint-Paul to Sain-Bel on September 22 and from Tassin to Brignais including the Tassin shunt, Saturday, […]

A Comparrison Of Operating Costs – Revisited

Posted by zweisystem on Sunday, February 20, 2022 The continued misinformation from the usual sources about SkyTrain being cheap to operate, must be again, refuted. When compared to light rail, SkyTrain has cost much more to operate ad maintain. According to TransLink from information in 2020, the operational costs of both the Expo line extension […]