Capacity and speed of transit vehicles in the city

In the past few weeks, the merchants of misinformation have been busy spreading their anti tram rhetoric in a vain attempt to justify a Broadway subway. Unfortunately the mainstream media have repeated the same misinformation without any independent research done. The following charts come from Bus or Light Rail Making the Right Choice, Second Edition, […]

Let The fools Rush In, The Regional Maryors 0.5% Transit Sales Tax

After a considerable time of wailing and gnashing of teeth, the regional mayors have come up with a question for the upcoming TransLink referendum. What the mayors did not do was to try to understand why TransLink is hemorrhaging money and will continue to do so even if the referendum passes. It’s all tax and […]

Referendum Angst

It will all about the TransLink Referendum in the coming months and regional mayors who haven’t a clue about modern public transit will try to force another tax upon the beleaguered taxpayer to fund questionable transit projects, that will do little to alleviate congestion and gridlock in the lower mainland. The following is a reminder […]

The Tours Tramway

The newly opened tours tramway, classic French design. Tours:Ai?? Population:Ai?? City 136,000; Metro Area 400,000 Distance:Ai?? 150 miles southwest of Paris, 1A? hours System Length:Ai?? 14.5 kilometres No. Lines:Ai?? 1 No. Stations:Ai?? 29 Year Opened:Ai?? 2013 Rolling Stock:Ai?? 21 Citadis 402 Passengers: 45,000 a day Cost: ai??i??369.1 million Euros (2009) CAD $518.595 (20014) An Artist […]

A Letter To The Mayor’s Council

Ai??The following letter, which has come Zwei’s way, was sent to all mayors and councils in Metro Vancouver. It seems, that the regional mayors are hell bound to get a positive vote in the coming TransLink referendum and they don’t seem to care about the voters or transit users at all. Yesterday’s Vancouver Province editorial […]

The Usual Suspects Shill for a Yes Vote for the Upcoming TransLink Referendum

Yikes, the Vancouver Sun is at it again, blindly shilling for a yes vote in the not yet announced TransLink referendum. This only makes me guess that internal polling shows that a yes vote is far from certain. All the usual suspects, the B.C. Federation of Labour; The B.C. Board of Trade; and the various […]

The Le Havre Tramway

Le Havre:Ai?? Population:Ai?? City 180,000; Metro Area 300,000 Distance:Ai?? 125 miles west northwest of Paris, 125 minutes System Length:Ai?? 13Ai?? kilometres No. Lines:Ai?? 2 No. Stations: 23 Year Opened:Ai?? 2012 Rolling Stock:Ai?? 22 Citadis 302 Cost – Vehicles: ai??i??45m (CAD $62.62m) Cost of project: ai??i??395m (CAD $550m) which includes a 575 metre tram tunnel In […]

The Broadway Subway – Vancouver’s Phallic Symbol

Vancouver’s politicians and elites desperately want the city to be a “world class city” and by their definition, a world class city must have subways. The Canada Line, the only heavy rail metro in the world that operates as a light metro, runs in a subway under Vancouver’s streets because city politicos, in effect, held […]

TransLink Report On SkyTrain Out

From what I can see, the problems that plagued SkyTrain last summer, were ones of very bad management and deferred maintenance. TransLink’s bad management is legendary and the outfit continues its oppression of transit customers with gestapo like ticket checks and its general anti transit customer attitude. The question of deferred maintenance is another matter […]

TransLink: LRT is suitable for Broadway!

A post from our friend Mr. Haveacow deserves more attention. Contained within is an interesting comment; “They have chosen that overall the Skytrain is the best choice (no surprise there). The whopper comes form the admission that LRT is cheaper and does provide better service over the status quo but the cost is significantly less […]