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 […]

A letter to Martin Crilly

Eric Chris has sent TransLink Commissioner, Martin Crilly, a rather pointed letter about diesel buses and the Broadway corridor. I doubt that Mr. Chris will get a reply, as TransLink and TransLink’s hanger-on’s seldom replies to letters critical of TransLink’s operation. The only thing one hears from TransLink is 10 second sound-bites, unfortunately that do […]

Tramways, a tool in a global mobility strategy

THE TRAMWAY REVIVAL IN FRANCE http://www.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/IMG/pdf/Tramway_GB.pdf Currently, eighteen French urban areas have at least one tramway line and by 2014, nine more towns will have opened their first lines. In France, the organisation of public transport is based on a decentralised administrative system established in the 1980s. For thirty years, land authorities have had great […]

Finacial Reality Surfaces With Regional Transit Plans – Vancouver Mayor Robertson In a Subway Induced Stupor

Well now, financial reality has now appeared with regional transit planning and a good thing it has. TransLink is broke and with the Evergreen Line’s construction starting, TransLink will descend further into a financial morass and unless the province forks over billions more for regional ‘ rail’ transit, nothing will happen. The subway lobby in […]

Why we build with LRT – Updated

Why we build with LRT First posted by Zweisystem on Friday, December 12, 2008 (updated) What is Light Rail Transit or more commonly known as LRT? According to the Light Rail Transit Association (www.lrta.org) Light rail is a mode that can deal economically with traffic flows of between 2,000 and 20,000 passengers per hour per […]

Surrey Citizens Transportation Initiative (Surrey CiTI) is hosting a rally

Letters in the Tri City News

A sampling ofAi??letters printed in the Tri city News. Mayors must stop being sucked in on TransLink funding Published: February 12, 2013 1:00 PM The Editor, Re. ai???Polak undecided on proposed taxai??? (The Tri-City News, Feb. 8). As P.T. Barnum said, ai???There is a sucker born every minute.ai??? And it seems Metro Vancouver mayors are […]