Half a million riders; but the Olympic streetcar won’t be staying- From News Radio 1130
500,000 customers moved in two months, by two Flexity trams is a very good statistic and bodes well for further expansion of LRT/streetcar in the region. It is time to build a ‘real’ streetcar/LRT line to show what a streetcar/LRT can do! Ai??Ai?? Ai??Ai??Half a million riders; but the Olympic streetcar won’t be staying Dave […]
Mayor not ready to jump aboard transit . . . just yet – From the Chilliwack Times
More Valley transit news. Tyler Olsen, The Times Published:Ai??Ai??Friday, March 12, 2010 Promoters of a rail line connecting the Fraser Valley with Metro Vancouver are urging Chilliwack politicians to jump aboard plans for a demonstration project along the old interurban rail line. Chilliwack is the only municipality between here and Delta not represented on the […]
Some Interesting Tram Photos
Not much news on the transit front, other than the SkyTrain Subway to UBC and the endemic funding crisis with TransLink. I thought a few tram pictures would be nice. Now, for our double-deck tram friends, the Swedes are no slouches when designing a modern double-deck, articulated tram! For the LRT can’t operate in narrow […]
Is the Hawaii SkyTrain Project Bombardier’s Last Kick At The Can?
The i L i n d . n e tAi??Ai??blog has been asking many questions about the proposed SkyTrain transit project in Hawaii, questions which should be answered before embarking on a multi billion dollar rapid transit project. Recent postings point to the fact that light rail was quietly dropped from theAi??Ai??planning process, not unlike […]
Hawaii SkyTrain Project Heats Up
A Hawaiian blog by Ian Lind posted Zwei’s ‘Debunking SkyTrain Series’ and continues the hot debate on the elevated SkyTrain project in Hawaii. http://ilind.net/2010/03/03/responses-show-rail-a-very-hot-topic/ It is good that the locals are beginning to ask questions about SkyTrain and may be beginning to see that the proprietary light-metro isn’t as great as ‘sliced bread’ which the […]
From the Tyee On Line NewsPaper: Vancouver’s Street Car Gift: Keep It?
An interesting article from the Tyee. Vancouver’s Street Car Gift: Keep It? To the delight of tourists and locals, the Olympic Line streetcar has been delivering people smoothly from Athlete’s Village on lower Cambie Street to Granville Island since Jan. 21. A Bombardier Flexity Outlook on loan from Brussels for the duration of the Games, […]
Olympic Hubris – Will The Wrong Conclusions Be Made By Our Planning & Political Elites?
In the last days of the 2010 Olympics, much has been made about how well our transportation worked during the event. What has been overlooked is that for the two week extravaganza, Vancouver had much warmer seasonal weather, meaning noAi??Ai??snow to stall the SkyTrain metro and make a shambles out of the bus schedules. Added […]
A Press Release From The Light Rail Transit Association
Ai?? The following press release from the LRTA is their response to the UK Ai??Ai??All Party Parliamentary Light Rail Group, regarding LRT which ‘Zwei’ commented on earlier in the week. http://railforthevalley.wordpress.com/2010/02/23/all-party-parliamentary-light-rail-group-applrg-report-should-we-do-the-same-in-bc/ PRES S RELEASE FROM Ai??Ai?? TramForward 25 February 2010 Ai??Ai?? TramForwardAi??Ai??Ai??Ai??welcomes publication of Light Rail and the City regions Report TramForward welcomes […]
Note to TransLink: Toronto’s Streetcars operate 24/7
A post from confirms what Zweisystem already knew, many streetcar/LRT systems operate twenty-four hours a day! Here we have an excellent example of the flexibility of modern LRT. 501 Queen and 506 Carlton. The routes are numbered 301 and 306 at night. From Wikipedia: The Blue Night Network is the overnight public transit service operated […]
All Party Parliamentary Light Rail Group (APPLRG) report – Should we do the same in BC?
Some interesting news from across the pond. Urban transit development in the UK has been hamstrung by a very powerful and vocal ‘Roads Lobby’, within the central government (not unlike the SkyTrain Lobby in Victoria), which has all but stopped light rail development in the UK. In an era of peak oil and global warming, […]
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