Light Rail Transit has a high operating cost per service hour

Portland's MAX light rail, the inspiration for Surrey's LRT plans, is not a profitable transit system.

A comparison of LRT operating costs per service hour vs the operating cost per service hour of SkyTrain. See below table: City System Operating cost per revenue service hour in 2011 Calgary C-Train LRT $200 [1] Salt Lake City UTA TRAX $124.01 [2][3] Portland MAX LRT $187.55 [2] Phoenix Metro Light Rail $180.35 [2][3] Houston METRO Rail $200 … [Read more...]

Misleading Letter shows up a second time; Initiative Leader responds again

A 502 Langley Ctr bus - image used with permission http://translinkphotos.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoid=44124052

Initiative leader Daryl Dela Cruz has taken note that misleading information from a particular letter-writer from Aldergrove has shown up in the news again, this time in two local Langley newspapers.  He has submitted this letter, which is a revision of the letter that he first sent to The Province [LINK HERE], in response to Mr. Atkinson's second anti-SkyTrain letter to appear in the … [Read more...]

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