TransLink, The City of Vancouver, and the SkyTrain Lobby Practice Lysenkoism
The SkyTrain Lobby Is Watching You! Lysenkoism: describes the manipulation or distortion of the scientific process as a way to reach a predetermined conclusion as dictated by an ideological bias, often related to social or political objectives. IgnoringAi?? the fact that the proprietary SkyTrain mini-metro system has been rejected by transit planners around the world […]
A Letter To BC’s Auditor General John Doyle
Long time light rail advocate, Malcolm Johnston, has sent a letter to John Doyle, BC’s Auditor General regarding the recent Evergreen Line audit. To the point, if LRT vehicles have higher passenger capacities than Skytrain cars; are cheaper to supply than Skytrain cars and LRT can be built on much cheaper rights-of-ways and operate at […]
Sorry Mr. Doyle, You Are Wrong!
Sorry to say, BC’s soon to be departing Auditor General, John Doyle has got it wrong about SkyTrain and LRT capacity, but then in BC, what is true elsewhere tends not to true here. “John Doyle’s latest audit concludes SkyTrain and not light rail was the best option because of its greater capacity at similar […]
An Important Message From Malcolm Johnston – A 30 Year Veteran Advocating for LRT
The South Fraser transit customers and taxpayers are about to get shafted again with regional transit investment, as South Fraser politicians are sleeping walking into a well laid trap set by TransLink and the City of Vancouver. The trap is simple, agree to build a $4 billion subway under Broadway now and promise ‘rapid transit‘ […]
The Broadway Follies Part 1 – From April 2010
Going even further back in the ‘way-back machine’, here is a re-post from April 2010, concerning the Broadway Corridor. In three years nothing has changed, except for the volumes of anti-LRT rhetoric from TransLink and the City of Vancouver and the City of Vancouver’s love for subways is now revealed for all to see …. […]
The Broadway Gong Show Revisited
Back by popular demand, the Broadway gong show. Broadway Transit Follies ai??i?? TransLink Does The Gong Show ai??i?? Part 2 Posted by zweisystem on Thursday, March 31, 2011 Want to know how TransLink spends taxpayer’s hard earned money? It is easy, TransLink studies transit options for Broadway. TransLink’s Broadway “Rapid Transit” (which means metro) study […]
Vancouver and TransLink Get What They Pay For!
Some interesting insight into KPMG, who are not transit consultants, who did a $110,000.00 transit study supporting a subway under Broadway. I guess the city of Vancouver and TransLink got what they paid for. KPMG: A History of AbettingAi??Fraud David Spencer Seconi While KPMG has avoided the fate of fellow auditing giant Arthur Anderson, it […]
Liz James Finds a Conflict of Interest
Liz James writes a weekly article for the North Shore news, but she finds more real transit stories than all the mainstream media reporters combined. It is sad, when the architects of TransLink’s financial chaos, are now hired by TransLink as consultants, consulting on TransLink’s financial woes. Oh woe is to the taxpayer, who must […]
Patrick Condon in the Tyee
Streetcar advocate, Prof. Patrick Condon has a good article in the Tyee. http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2013/03/06/Vancouver-Transit-Report/index.html#comment-278124
The Vancouver Sun Shills for a Broadway Subway.
The Vancouver Sun, again embarrasses itself, with a news item that that is nothing more than shilling for a Broadway subway. This story contains so many red flags, that one would think it was a paid advertisement and not news. If Sinoski did his/her homework on subways, which he/she obviously hasn’t, he/she would find that […]
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