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Portland: LRT ridership drops; Canada Line continues to outperform

By skytrainforsurreyadminPosted on July 28, 2012Posted in UncategorizedTagged BC, bus ridership, Canada, Canada Line, Canada Line vs LRT, cars, Community Impact, competition, competitive transit, connected, Greater Vancouver, information, light rail, Light Rail Transit, LRT, max line, MAX LRT, Metro Vancouver, Portland light rail, Portland LRT, Portland MAX, Portland MAX LRT, rail transit, rail transit ridership, rapid rail transit, Rapid Transit, ridership, ridership data, ridership increases, RRT, SkyTrain, SkyTrain vs LRT, Surrey transportation future, Sustainability, train, transit, Transit agency, transit ridership, TransLink, Transportation, TriMet1 Comment

Light Rail Transit (LRT) ridership in Portland, Oregon has for whatever reason dropped this year. TriMet has published new ridership data for the month of June 2012: [CLICK HERE]. TriMet also conducted a media release about these numbers, viewable at [CLICK HERE]. While TriMet reported that the transit system has reached a record ridership, this […]

Canada Line outperforms entire LRT system

By skytrainforsurreyadminPosted on July 12, 2012January 13, 2016Posted in UncategorizedTagged BC, Canada, Canada Line, Canada Line vs LRT, cars, Community Impact, competition, competitive transit, connected, Greater Vancouver, information, light rail, Light Rail Transit, LRT, MAX LRT, Metro Vancouver, Portland MAX, Portland MAX LRT, rail transit, rapid rail transit, Rapid Transit, RRT, SkyTrain, SkyTrain vs LRT, Surrey transportation future, Sustainability, transit, TransLink, Transportation, TriMet2 Comments

Readers of Peace Arch News, Surrey Leader and Surrey Now may have spotted the claim by our campaign Chair Daryl Dela Cruz that the Canada Line has attracted more riders than the entire Portland MAX (Metropolitan Area eXpress) Light Rail Transit system. These are the numbers: System Opening Year(s) Average weekday boardings (2011) SkyTrain – Canada […]

Coquitlam releases SkyTrain community integration concepts

By skytrainforsurreyadminPosted on May 22, 2012Posted in UncategorizedTagged BC, Bombardier Innovia ART, British Columbia, Canada, cars, city of coquitlam, Community Impact, competition, connected, Coquitlam, Dianne Watts, Economic development, Economics, Evergreen Line, Greater Vancouver, Metro Vancouver, rail transit, rapid rail transit, Rapid Transit, RRT, SkyTrain, station areas, Sustainability, transit, Transportation, vision1 Comment

An atmosphere of doubt has surrounded the viability of SkyTrain in Surrey under a false perception that at-grade Light Rail Transit (LRT) will help shape and build communities – whilst SkyTrain expansion will not, supported by quotes from advocates, city officials and other LRT supporters. Even Dianne Watts had more than a few statements in […]

Surrey citizens predominantly choose to drive

By skytrainforsurreyadminPosted on March 27, 2012Posted in UncategorizedTagged automobile, bus rapid transit, Bus service, Canada Line, competition, competitive rapid transit, competitive transit, connected, Dianne Watts, Economic development, Economics, Greater Vancouver, light rail, Light Rail Transit, LRT, Metro Vancouver, patterns, rail transit, rapid rail transit, Rapid Transit, RRT, SkyTrain, Surrey, Surrey transit, Surrey transportation, Surrey transportation future, Sustainability, train, transit, Transportation1 Comment

Our analysts came across an interesting document on the local South Fraser Blog that shows how many counted vehicles are registered in a given city in a Lower Mainland in a year, and associated patterns. The data compares over 12 years from 1999-2011 across all Metro Vancouver cities and districts. [LINK TO DOCUMENT] This chart […]