Finacial Reality Surfaces With Regional Transit Plans – Vancouver Mayor Robertson In a Subway Induced Stupor

Well now, financial reality has now appeared with regional transit planning and a good thing it has. TransLink is broke and with the Evergreen Line’s construction starting, TransLink will descend further into a financial morass and unless the province forks over billions more for regional ‘ rail’ transit, nothing will happen. The subway lobby in […]

UBC and Vancouver Embarrass Themselves, Demanding a Subway

Universities used to be a place of learning and education, but today, UBC makes a mockery of education with their support of a Broadway subway. The sheer ignorance of UBC demanding a subway is appalling and one questions the “intelligence” of those making such an expensive demand! In the real world, subways are only considered […]

Why we build with LRT – Updated

Why we build with LRT First posted by Zweisystem on Friday, December 12, 2008 (updated) What is Light Rail Transit or more commonly known as LRT? According to the Light Rail Transit Association (www.lrta.org) Light rail is a mode that can deal economically with traffic flows of between 2,000 and 20,000 passengers per hour per […]

EDITORIAL: TransLink faces a mutiny if it doesnai??i??t shape up – From the South Delta Leader

TransLink has a credibility problem, largely because it has not been truthful with its dealings with the public. TransLink is nothing more than a ponderous bureaucracy staffed with career bureaucrats, who live in a dated 1950’s world of public transit. With most of the regional politicians memorized by TransLink speak and where doing nothing is […]

Surrey Citizens Transportation Initiative (Surrey CiTI) is hosting a rally

From the North Shore News – TransLink’s budget woes tied to SkyTrain

Liz James is one of the few media scribes that has actually taken the time to study and understand our “tricky dickey” regional transit, as brought to you by TransLink. With most of the mainstream media in Translink’s pocket, little real news and views are offered and instead a pablum of regurgitated “tax and spend” […]

A Question of Capacity ai??i?? A LRTA Topic Sheet

Contrary to the COV and TransLink, modern LRT can obtain high capacities, on transit routes, by being able to operate at close headways.Ai??Today, the main tram route through the city is being relocated in a subway because the line was seeing 45 second headways during peak hours, giving an nominal capacity exceeding 40,000 persons per […]

Metro Vancouver mayors call for new fees, taxes to fund transit

Well they areAi??back at it, the regional mayors (I should say well paid regional mayors) are asking for more of our money to fund SkyTrain. Yes, that what it boils down to, more money to fund SkyTrain. Our regional mayors tend to think they are transit experts, but with the exception of Burnaby’s Derrek Corrigan […]

The Cost of Transporting People in the British Columbia Lower Mainland – Revisited

In 1993 the Greater Vancouver Regional District (GVRD), now known as metro Vancouver,Ai??and the province of British Columbia released a report entitled “Transport 2021“, part of the 2021 study was the study, “The Cost of Transporting People in the British Columbia Lower Mainland“. On page 15 of the “The Cost of Transporting People in the […]

The Noviceai??i??s Guide to ai???Railai??? Transit Orai??i??ai??i??ai??i??ai??i?? (Updated)

ai??i??ai??i??ai??i??ai??i??..cutting through the BS about light rail, SkyTrain and BRT. The following is a guide plus definitions about “rail” transit for this coming May’s provincial election. ALM: Automatic Light Metro, the fourth marketing name given for the SkyTrain family of light-metros, when Lavalin briefly owned SkyTrain before gong bankrupt. ALRT (1): Advanced Light Rail Transit, […]