The MetroTown Express?

I have to ask, why an express bus to MetroTown? It is puzzling that TransLink would waste valuable money on an express bus to, transit wise, nowhere. It’s like the Broadway subway stopping at Arbutus and it just does not make sense. The 99-B “Rapid” (Express Bus) is successful because it largely serves UBC and […]

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 […]

TramTrain – Success Ignored

The birth of what we call TramTrain or a streetcar that can operate on the mainline railways, came about after much research and public consultation, to provide the the city of Karlsruhe and region with a ‘user-friendly’ public transit system. In the 1980’s cities with trams or streetcars were seeing a steady decline in patronage […]

De-spinning The Spin – The Broadway Subway

First published on July 8, 2022 under the title “The $1.47 Billion Solution”, recent comments about the Broadway subway need clarifying. The following quote sums up the capacity issue for the Millennium Line (Broadway subway). When the programme is fully implemented, the Expo Line will be able to accommodate 17,500 passengers per hour per direction, […]

Failure

Failure noun 1. lack of success: “an economic policy that is doomed to failure” 2. the neglect or omission of expected or required action: “their failure to comply with the basic rules” A rather intense phone call has prompted me to post this. The caller irately stated: “SkyTrain is not proprietary” and “Vancouver has the […]

A MEMO TO PREMIER EBY

The Honourable David Eby, Premier of BC Dear Premier Eby, The ongoing rift between Canada and the USA will have generational effects and will never go back to normal, as President Trump has forever changed how people behave. Trump and MAGA is a prelude for great change in BC. The ongoing climate change with summer’s […]

Will The Broadway Subway Solve Transit Issues?

In Metro Vancouver, The SkyTrain light metro system has had an interesting issue, no noticeable modal shift from car to train. Yes, the light metro system carries a lot of customers but the vast majority have transferred from bus to light-metro. The bus system has been so designed to feed every bus customer onto the […]

SkyTrain Was So Successful No One Wanted One!

Interesting article in the Hive, which is basically the mouthpiece for TransLink. The problem with SkyTrain is that it was a politcal decision and now with almost 45 years of deliberate misinformation and pro SkyTrain propaganda, the local media, especially with lazier younger reporters and journalists just do not do any research and print what […]

BRT – A View From a Canadian Transit Expert

Originally posted in 2015 I have updated the post but since very little has changed about BRT over the past decade, that there is little to update. Real BRT has reached its maximum potential, unless tree-articulated buses become the norm and that has made BRT a niche transit mode to deal with niche transit issues. […]

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 […]