View obscured from ivory tower – From the Chilliwack times.
The Light Rail Committee has been advocating TramTrain for the Fraser Valley since the mid 90’s, hopefully some positive news will be forthcoming soon! Sadly, in an age of financial frugality, regional and provincial transit planners still plan for hugely expensive metro and SkyTrain systems, yet with little or no method to pay for them. […]
Seattle’s Light Rail Update – the SkyTrain Lobby Infiltrates Down South
Ai?? The following story from the Seattle Transit Blog clearly illustrates the SkyTrain/metro types still have not read a book on the subject, instead believing that “speed’ and ‘grade separation’ for a transit system are a necessity. What is striking is the anti-LRT attitude of the metro supporting people who post. Like Vancouver, Seattle’s transit […]
Two Valley Rail Studies
The following are two studies that have been done concerning ‘rail’ transit in the Fraser Valley. http://www.scribd.com/doc/2527465/City-of-Surrey-Community-Rail-Proposal http://www.scribd.com/doc/515139/DRL-Solutions-Interurban-Report
Rail For The Valley puts squeeze on city
I find it very strange that The municipality of Chilliwack is not involved with the South of Fraser Community Rail Task Force andAi??Ai??many local residentsAi??Ai??would like to know the reason why? Certainly having a direct rail connection to Vancouver would be a bonus for both local businesses,Ai??Ai??especially tourist oriented businessesAi??Ai??and for local residents, with reliable […]
More Light Rail Links
More links for research and general information. http://www.metromodemedia.com/features/Transitdensity0020.aspx http://netdensity.net/tag/lrt/ http://kiat.net/malaysia/KL/transit.html http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?p=4358531 http://www.examiner.com/x-11410-Fresno-Transportation-Examiner~y2010m5d2-In-the-know-series–Part-3-BRT–LRT-or-BRT-vs-LRT?cid=exrss-Fresno-Transportation-Examiner http://southwestlrt.wordpress.com/ http://lightrailjacksonville.webs.com/whylrti.htm http://www.raisethehammer.org/article/851/main-king_lrt_split_may_be_a_good_idea http://www.thespec.com/article/716331 http://www.lightrailnow.org/news/n_kc_2007-05a.htm Research. http://tris.trb.org/view.aspx?id=909553 Ai??Ai??http://ideas.repec.org/p/wiw/wiwrsa/ersa01p118.html Ai??Ai??www.britchammacao.org/download/201003MacauLRTintro.pdf Ai??Ai??http://www.jstor.org/pss/3551027 Ai??Ai??http://canadianaffairs.suite101.com/article.cfm/edmontons_light_rail_transit_issues Ai??Ai??www.edmonton.ca/…/LRTRouteEvaluationcriteriaMarch2009.pdf http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/09/why-phoenix-lig.html Ai??Ai??http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_light_rail_in_North_America
Krugman: Lost Decade, Here We Come – Sent by the Light Rail Now Folks
Paul Krugman’s article from several days ago (see below) drives home the point that “deficit hawkism” is NOT just an American lunacy – it’s somehow ascended to the prevailing “conventional wisdom” globally. As I pointed out in a previous recent post, “This has some very bad implications for public transportation funding, the transit budget crisis, […]
Late Friday Night’s Musings For Saturday Reading
Zwei, with a cup of tea in hand, has been reading the various transit blogs and answering emailsAi??Ai??from interested parties around the world, trying to get a read onAi??Ai??what direction public transit is going in the near and not so near future. Sadly, I see a trend in North America towards supporting building hugely expensive […]
More Links for Transit oriented Development
Today, more links for TOD in low density areas. My thanks to David Cockle for sending them to Rail for the Valley! Ai??Ai?? http://www.drcog.org/index.cfm?page=TODDensity http://www.vtpi.org/tdm/tdm45.htm http://tinyurl.com/btacou http://www.sacrt.com/realestate/TODpage.stm
Notes on – Broadway merchants want light rail not SkyTrain down business corridor – meeting
A few thoughts on Tuesdays meeting put on by BARSTA regarding transit issues on Broadway or what Zweisystem calls the ‘Broadway Follies’. First though a comment on Vancouver’s pedestrians; my god does anyone in Vancouver, including pedestrians and cyclists obey the rules of the road? Driving in Vancouver reminded me of some sort of perverted […]
Broadway merchants want light rail not SkyTrain down business corridor
Last night’s adventure! Broadway merchants want light rail not SkyTrain down business corridor By Tamara Baluja, The Province June 22, 2010 A coalition of merchants and residents opposed to the building of a SkyTrain line along VancouverA?ai??i??ai???s Broadway corridor rolled ahead with a meeting Tuesday to discuss alternatives. About 120 people packed the meeting held […]
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