The Broadway Follies: Sorry, but Surrey is next in line

And the transit debate keeps going! Vancouver, which always acts as the proverbial spoiled child, wants a multi billion dollar subway under Broadway and is setting the stage with scare tacticsAi??withAi??a Goebbelesque flavour of lies deceit and deception. The SkyTrain lobby, always adding their own special brand of nonsense, further muddies the debate. Surrey, with […]

Vancouver Take Note – Trams In, Cars Out In Sydney, Australia Transport Planning!

Here isAi??a news itemAi??that should give the City of Vancouver planners and engineers something to think about, make cars defer to trams. In Vancouver, the hierarchy for transportation is bicycles first, cars second and public transit third. It’s OK to close a city street for cyclists, but its not OK to close a city street […]

Broadway Follies – An Alternative Plan

First off, I just do not agree with Mr. Fitch nor do I think his plan is not well thought out. One of the main reasons for building LRT on heavily used transit routes, is the economy gained from using ‘trams‘ instead of buses. As light rail runs on a dedicated rights-of-way with priority signaling […]

Light Rail Fits In

This is a re-post of useful links for those advocating for LRT. In Vancouver, there is a concerted effort to once again force a SkyTrain subway as a transit solution on Broadway, if this is successful there will be no light rail in Surrey, no Rail for the Valley Interurban forAi??at leastAi??30 years! Zweisystem send […]

The Broadway Follies – The Smear Campaign Begins!

On radio station CKNW, the opening salvos from the SkyTrain Lobby were fired at the public, in the was of getting public opinion to support a $2 billion plus SkyTrain subway under Broadway. The BS meter was running full throttle, when the usual suspects, Frances (BS) Bula, from the Globe and mail; Michael Geller, President, […]

Are The NDP Backing the “SkyTrain” For Transit Expansion?

A recent article in the Black media certainly indicates thatAi??the provincial NDP are going to expand the SkyTrain system in a forlorn hope to improve transit. Bains’s quote; “Besides the need to replace two Fraser River crossings, there’s multi-billion-dollar demands for new rapid transit extensions in Surrey and down the Broadway corridor in Vancouver toward […]

The Broadway Follies – Vancouver Tries Terror Tactics.

Last week, the City of Vancouver started a long and odious campaign for a multi-billion dollar SkyTrain Subway under Broadway, as far as Arbutus and maybe as far as UBC. In order to secure a favourable public opinion, the city claimed doom and gloom to any and all who would dare advocate for a much […]

Rail transit must get on right track – From the Vancouver Sun

An interesting piece in the Vancouver Sun and the first time in many years that the Sun has allowed a positive article about light rail! Rail transit must get on right track Opinion: But government capital is likely not enough to fund an all-underground system west of Main Street Surrey is thinking about while Calgary […]

What have the Romans ever done for us?

Apart from the Aqueduct, Sanitation, the Roads, Irrigation, Medicine, Education, Public Health, Wine, Public Baths andAi??Law & Order. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSELOCMmw4A Taking the contemporary view; What have Translink ever done for us? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DtVyH801FM Apart from: The U-Pass Fraud Fare Evasion The Evergreen Line Increased Transit ticket fees The Canada Line Express Bus Lines and the Broadway subway […]

Sleeping with the Enemy

All too often public transit advocates are refused access to politicians, in Britain the Light Rail Transit Association LRTA has been instrumental inAi??the setting up of a forumAi??where ministers and their advisors can meet with the industry leaders, campaigners & Light Rail advocates. – the All Party Parliamentary Light Rail Group [APPLRG] http://www.applrguk.co.uk/ APPLRG stands […]