Light Rail Vehicle & Tramcar orders – 2013

The following table gives the totals for Trams/LRV’s on order + options, as at February 2013 Source Tramways & Urban Transit No 904 April 2013 Manufacturer City’s Orders Options Sub-Total Orders Pending Ai?? Ai?? Ai?? Ai?? OrdersAi?? Options Alstom Bordeaux, Dubai, Nottingham, Ottawa, Paris, Toulouse 188 91 2701 792 587 AnsaldoBreda Genoa, Firenza 68 7 […]

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 […]

TransLink’s numbers challenged

Long time transit advocate Malcolm Johnston has scored a direct hit on TransLink. For too long TransLink has manipulated planning to favour SkyTrain and with so many new light rail lines being built, it is hard for TransLink to hide from the truth any longer. One only wonders, how TransLink will reply or will they […]

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 […]

TransLink Decieves Surrey – Planning Flim-Flam Continues

Hey buddy, want to buy a good used car” Then go to ‘Honest‘ TransLink and they will fit you up nicely. Well it seems that TransLink has fitted up Surrey and Langley nicely with their very questionable “rapid transit plans“. As usual TransLink deceives the public about LRT and one has to ask the question […]

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 […]