PRT – Gadgetbahnen on Steroids.
Every few years, much is made of PRT or Personal Rapid Transit, as being the new way to move people. Except for a few specialized installations, such as Morgantown USA, PRT has proven to be both expensive for what it does and esthetically unappealing. For a PRT system to actually work, one would need elevated […]
City & Populations With Light Rail
From David Cockle. Rank City / Urban area Country Population Land area (in sqKm) Density (people per sqKm Ai??Ai?? 100 Warsaw Poland 2,000,000 466 4,300 101 Denver USA 1,985,000 1,292 1,550 102 Cologne/Bonn Germany 1,960,000 816 2,400 103 Hamburg Germany 1,925,000 829 2,300 104 Dubai UAE 1,900,000 712 2,650 105 Pretoria South Africa 1,850,000 673 […]
500 Posts – The story so far……………..
Todays post, marks the five hundredth post on the Rail for The Valley blog and today I want to reflect on the main themes that keep out transit debates going. The Canada line Again, anotherAi??Ai??major Canada Line storyAi??Ai??by the Vancouver Province news paper…. http://www.theprovince.com/business/Canada+Line+year+later+Next+stop+construction+controversy/3400752/story.html -and I wonder why the Vancouver Province keeps writing ‘puff’ stories […]
Come On Now Mainstream Media, Why All The Hype And Hoopla Over The Canada Line?
In the past week, the mainstream media have been singing loud hosannas about the success of the Canada Line, how it is surpassing ridership projections and all is happiness. What the MSM failed toAi??Ai??mention is thatAi??Ai??over 80% of the total trips on the RAV/Canada line have come from about 40,000 or so bus riders who […]
High ridership means Canada Line could hit break-even point 3 years early – Another Early August April Fool?
When news is slow and TransLink is in want to fund another metro line, expect good news stories.Ai??Ai?? $150 thousand a year plus TransLink spin-doctor purrs out the RAV/Canada Lines success; golly gee whiz, the Canada Line is carrying over 100,000 passengers a day and it will soon pay for itself in three years. What […]
TorontoA?ai??i??ai???s Airport Link in Public Hands After Collapse of PPP Deal – From the Transport Politic
Interesting news as the same players are involved with the RAV/Canada Line. Makes one think what secret sweeteners the province used to masquerade the Canada Line as a P-3? This must bode ill for the Evergreen Line financing, as the government wants to induce business to invest in a P-3 arrangement to find the final […]
A Cost Comparison of Transportation Modes. A study worth looking at.
The following study is well worth a look as it dispels many currents myths about transit, especially the SkyTrain light-metro system. ‘Zwei’ notes that Professor Condon has fallen into the light rail/streetcar trap. The difference between LRT and a streetcar is the quality of rights-of-way, where a streetcar operates on-street in mixed traffic, with little […]
View obscured from ivory tower – From the Chilliwack times.
The Light Rail Committee has been advocating TramTrain for the Fraser Valley since the mid 90’s, hopefully some positive news will be forthcoming soon! Sadly, in an age of financial frugality, regional and provincial transit planners still plan for hugely expensive metro and SkyTrain systems, yet with little or no method to pay for them. […]
More Light Rail Links
More links for research and general information. http://www.metromodemedia.com/features/Transitdensity0020.aspx http://netdensity.net/tag/lrt/ http://kiat.net/malaysia/KL/transit.html http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?p=4358531 http://www.examiner.com/x-11410-Fresno-Transportation-Examiner~y2010m5d2-In-the-know-series–Part-3-BRT–LRT-or-BRT-vs-LRT?cid=exrss-Fresno-Transportation-Examiner http://southwestlrt.wordpress.com/ http://lightrailjacksonville.webs.com/whylrti.htm http://www.raisethehammer.org/article/851/main-king_lrt_split_may_be_a_good_idea http://www.thespec.com/article/716331 http://www.lightrailnow.org/news/n_kc_2007-05a.htm Research. http://tris.trb.org/view.aspx?id=909553 Ai??Ai??http://ideas.repec.org/p/wiw/wiwrsa/ersa01p118.html Ai??Ai??www.britchammacao.org/download/201003MacauLRTintro.pdf Ai??Ai??http://www.jstor.org/pss/3551027 Ai??Ai??http://canadianaffairs.suite101.com/article.cfm/edmontons_light_rail_transit_issues Ai??Ai??www.edmonton.ca/…/LRTRouteEvaluationcriteriaMarch2009.pdf http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/09/why-phoenix-lig.html Ai??Ai??http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_light_rail_in_North_America
Shameful Media Reporting
The real story is, not the ever promised Evergreen Line, but the totally lack of research done by the reporter. If the reporter in question had any knowledge at all about transit, should would have known that SkyTrain was indeed onceAi??Ai??marketed asAi??Ai??ALRT or Advanced Light Rail Transit in 1980. TheAi??Ai??acronym ALRT was the second given […]
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