The Broadway Gong Show Revisited

Back by popular demand, the Broadway gong show. Broadway Transit Follies ai??i?? TransLink Does The Gong Show ai??i?? Part 2 Posted by zweisystem on Thursday, March 31, 2011 Want to know how TransLink spends taxpayer’s hard earned money? It is easy, TransLink studies transit options for Broadway. TransLink’s Broadway “Rapid Transit” (which means metro) study […]

TransLink’s numbers challenged

Long time transit advocate Malcolm Johnston has scored a direct hit on TransLink. For too long TransLink has manipulated planning to favour SkyTrain and with so many new light rail lines being built, it is hard for TransLink to hide from the truth any longer. One only wonders, how TransLink will reply or will they […]

TransLink Decieves Surrey – Planning Flim-Flam Continues

Hey buddy, want to buy a good used car” Then go to ‘Honest‘ TransLink and they will fit you up nicely. Well it seems that TransLink has fitted up Surrey and Langley nicely with their very questionable “rapid transit plans“. As usual TransLink deceives the public about LRT and one has to ask the question […]

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 […]

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 […]