Rail for the Valley – Saturday March 16 PRE-ELECTION WORKSHOP

To all supporters of Rail for the Valley, The election is just around the corner! Our Society has been hard at work on some ideas for the provincial election. If you want to get involved and put regional rail service for the Fraser Valley on the map this coming election, please attend this upcoming workshop: […]

Liz James Finds a Conflict of Interest

Liz James writes a weekly article for the North Shore news, but she finds more real transit stories than all the mainstream media reporters combined. It is sad, when the architects of TransLink’s financial chaos, are now hired by TransLink as consultants, consulting on TransLink’s financial woes. Oh woe is to the taxpayer, who must […]

Patrick Condon in the Tyee

Streetcar advocate, Prof. Patrick Condon has a good article in the Tyee. http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2013/03/06/Vancouver-Transit-Report/index.html#comment-278124

The Vancouver Sun Shills for a Broadway Subway.

The Vancouver Sun, again embarrasses itself, with a news item that that is nothing more than shilling for a Broadway subway. This story contains so many red flags, that one would think it was a paid advertisement and not news. If Sinoski did his/her homework on subways, which he/she obviously hasn’t, he/she would find that […]

A letter to Martin Crilly

Eric Chris has sent TransLink Commissioner, Martin Crilly, a rather pointed letter about diesel buses and the Broadway corridor. I doubt that Mr. Chris will get a reply, as TransLink and TransLink’s hanger-on’s seldom replies to letters critical of TransLink’s operation. The only thing one hears from TransLink is 10 second sound-bites, unfortunately that do […]

Tramways, a tool in a global mobility strategy

THE TRAMWAY REVIVAL IN FRANCE http://www.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/IMG/pdf/Tramway_GB.pdf Currently, eighteen French urban areas have at least one tramway line and by 2014, nine more towns will have opened their first lines. In France, the organisation of public transport is based on a decentralised administrative system established in the 1980s. For thirty years, land authorities have had great […]

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 […]

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

Cycling and Light Rail – They Do Get Along

A comment on the previous post about the ability of trams and bicycles to ‘get along’, clearly illustrates the bicycle/tram myth, that bicyclists and trams or streetcars can not cohabit on the same road. The small flange-way does not pose a risk, except for the mostAi?? blind cyclist and the safety claims being made against […]

Calgary may look to streetcar history for future of transit

The city of Vancouver should take note, there are streetcars on tap for Calgary. What is old is new again and planners in North America are beginning to grasp the importance of simple streetcar. Streetcars or trams are derided by the SkyTrain lobby who would rather close schools and hospitals to fund kilometres of aerial […]