The Fare Evasion Fiasco – Why Spend $171 million to save $4.38 million Annually?
The real story of course is that Premier Campbell’s political crony, Ken Dobell, acted as a lobbyist for Cubit Industries who are putting in the turnstiles at SkyTrain stations. In what amounts to massive overkill, a $171 million turnstile system with about $15 million annual operating costs, toAi??Ai??deter an approximatelyAi??Ai??$4.38 annual loss due to fare […]
Diesel Trams for the Interurban – Lessons from Kassel! Part 3
Though the old BC Electric Interurban service from downtown Vancouver to Chilliwack was an ‘electric‘ service, the wires and electrical equipment have been long removed and the remaining railway has been operated as a diesel railway. To get a affordable Interurban service into ‘quick‘ service, Diesel LRT could be the answer and as we see […]
A ‘Must’ Read for Rail For The Valley – Diesel trams: a new way forward? Part 1
Diesel trams: a new way forward? By Charles King – Modern Railways March 2007 Light rail technologies have received closer attention in recent times as potential solutions to transport problems as well as providing alternatives to A?ai??i??E?traditionalA?ai??i??ai??? railway operation. In light of this, a trip run by ACoRP(Association of Community Rail Partnerships), and organised by […]
Transit at a crossroads – From The Surrey Leader
Well here we go again, TransLink is planning for ‘rapid’ transit for Surrey and the Fraser Valley.Ai??Ai??Zwei has seen this all before and I’m afraidAi??Ai??I amAi??Ai??not at all enthused with the process, nor have much faithAi??Ai??in TransLink to do an honest study. Zwei hates the term ‘rapid transit’ as it refers to metro and only […]
A?ai??i??E?Blank slateA?ai??i??ai??? transit plan bodes well – Um no, Not Until TransLink Stops Playing Dirty Tricks!
Though the transit debate is supposed to be a ‘Blank slate’, it seems TransLink is up to its own dirty little tricks as usual. It has been a long and well established fact that light rail (LRT) can and does carry over 20,000 persons per hour per direction. The claim that it can carryAi??Ai??Ai??Ai??only 6,000 […]
Two letters in the North Shore News
The usual suspects yes, but an insight to the up coming Evergreen Line/Broadway – UBC metro line debate. Take the regional view on transit investment North Shore News Published:Ai??Ai??Wednesday, March 24, 201o Dear Editor: In her March 17 columns Costly SkyTrain Technology Choices Baffle, Elizabeth James, cites U.S. professor Panos Prevedouros saying, “Light rail service […]
Costly SkyTrain technology choices baffle – From the North Shore News
It seems that the efforts of Zwei and others have paid off’ asAi??Ai??others in the region are taking note of LRT and TramTrain and the hugeAi??Ai??costs that go along with the SkyTrain light-metro system and subway construction. TramTrain andAi??Ai??especially “Rail for the Valley” itselfAi??Ai??may find some welcome allies to their cause from the North Shore, […]
Half a million riders; but the Olympic streetcar won’t be staying- From News Radio 1130
500,000 customers moved in two months, by two Flexity trams is a very good statistic and bodes well for further expansion of LRT/streetcar in the region. It is time to build a ‘real’ streetcar/LRT line to show what a streetcar/LRT can do! Ai??Ai?? Ai??Ai??Half a million riders; but the Olympic streetcar won’t be staying Dave […]
Mayor not ready to jump aboard transit . . . just yet – From the Chilliwack Times
More Valley transit news. Tyler Olsen, The Times Published:Ai??Ai??Friday, March 12, 2010 Promoters of a rail line connecting the Fraser Valley with Metro Vancouver are urging Chilliwack politicians to jump aboard plans for a demonstration project along the old interurban rail line. Chilliwack is the only municipality between here and Delta not represented on the […]
Hawaii SkyTrain Project Heats Up
A Hawaiian blog by Ian Lind posted Zwei’s ‘Debunking SkyTrain Series’ and continues the hot debate on the elevated SkyTrain project in Hawaii. http://ilind.net/2010/03/03/responses-show-rail-a-very-hot-topic/ It is good that the locals are beginning to ask questions about SkyTrain and may be beginning to see that the proprietary light-metro isn’t as great as ‘sliced bread’ which the […]
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