Surrey to display light rail model during Canada Day celebrations

The City of Surrey wants modern light rail and planning is now ongoing for several LRT lines in Surrey. The mistake I feel that is being made is that TransLink, who are unfortunately involved with the planning process, are planning Surrey’s proposed LRT as a poorman’s SkyTrain, forcing it to act solely as a feeder […]

The SkyTrain Lobby – And The fine Art of Deception

The deliriously pro SkyTrain blog, SkyTrain for Surrey (SfS), continues its campaign of deception and misinformation in an attack against American transit expert Gerald Fox. I don’t normally follow the nonsenseAi??spouted byAi??the SkyTrain lobby because they live in a world of their own, where the rules are simple; SkyTrain good, light rail bad. The recent […]

TransLink looks at higher prices for park-and-ride lots……..When idiots run the show, don’t be surprized………..

Didn’t take long for TransLink to make another cash grab from transit customers. Forgetting that ParkAi??& Rides are supposed to attract customers that would otherwise not take a bus or live to far from convenient transit, TransLink’s bureaucrats continue to blunder on and on with ideas that will only deter ridership. Tis a very small […]

A Tale of Two Bridges: Pattullo survey in New West opposes six lane replacement

It seems the good burghers in New Westminster do not want a mega bridge dumping traffic into their city. In the 1970’s, the GVRD (pre-METRO Vancouver days) proposed a new six lane bridge, with two lift spans for railways,Ai?? plus two light rail lines to replace replacing the decrepit Fraser River Rail bridge and the […]

Editorial: Less parking, more transit a winning duo – The Van Sun’s Editors still do not get it!

Today’s editorial in the Vancouver Sun, may seem to many that the Editors support more transit, but I think not. What we see is the beginning of the soft sell for higher regionalAi??taxes to pay for a Broadway subway and other Vancouver oriented transit investment. The war on the car and now the reduction of […]

Light Rail for Surrey The WKW Line ai??i?? A Rerun from May 2011

  It has been over one year since this post was printed and in that year nothing of substance has been done. In the lower mainland, transit is designed to increase density, thus increasing property values and profits for friends of the government at the expense of the taxpayer. The same is true forLRT/streetcar for […]

A Poll That TransLink Wishes To Suppress

Reprinted from May 2010   A very strange thing happened yesterday with ‘Zwei’. When I was discussing a transit matter with an US transit type about the RAV/Canada line. He told me that TransLink officials claimed that over 80% of Vancouverites supported RAV and if it were not for the high costs of the metro, […]

Rail for the Valley Rsponds to the SkyTrain Lobby

Malcolm Johnston, from Rail for the Valley responds to Mr. Cruz’s pro-SkyTrain letter from last week. Transportation: LRT beats SkyTrain, hands down Langley AdvanceMayAi?? 29, 2012 Read more: http://www.langleyadvance.com/life/Transportation+beats+SkyTrain+hands+down/6695420/story.html#ixzz1wI8dyeQD Dear Editor, I read in absolute amazement a letter full of invented and twisted facts by aAi?? Mr. Cruz, supporting SkyTrain [SkyTrain boosting profits, May 24 […]

Is it time to bring back the streetcar to Vancouver?

Both Stephen Rees http://stephenrees.wordpress.com/2012/04/11/is-it-time-to-bring-back-the-streetcar-to-vancouver/ and Voony http://voony.wordpress.com/2012/04/16/is-it-time-to-bring-back-the-streetcar-to-vancouver/Ai?? The motion has been launchedAi??by Vancouver-based online consultation platform PlaceSpeak https://www.placespeak.com/topic/399/streetcar-city-2050/ Vancouver is currently exploring the use of streetcars as a key element of our transition to more sustainable transportation modes. But if streetcars are to be reintroduced in todayai??i??s economic climate it is important that they are […]

The Emperor has no Clothes and no Transit – First published in March 2011

Zwei has decided to reprint this post from March of last year. In the ensuing year nothing has changed; the same oldAi??tired cast of characters trundling out the same old tired transit plans,Ai??desperately tryingAi??to convinceAi??the ever increasingly skeptical taxpayerAi??to ante up more and more tax money to fund transit improvements that everyone knows will fail […]