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Toronto streetcar derails in collision, service disrupted for several hours

COMMUTER CHAOS STORY Toronto streetcar derails in collision, service disrupted for several hours FROM: Toronto, Ontario – September 19, 2018 TTC streetcar service on Toronto’s Queens Quay was shut down for several hours after a light rail vehicle was knocked off of the tracks in a collision with an ambulance. Daily Hive Toronto, The Star, […]

7+ hour shut-down after Portland streetcar hit by truck

COMMUTER CHAOS STORY 7+ hour shut-down after Portland streetcar hit by truck FROM: Portland, Oregon – September 5, 2018 For the second time this year, a Portland streetcar was derailed off of tracks in downtown Portland. According to The Oregonian, KOIN and others, the streetcar was derailed just after 3:30PM after a truck collided with […]

Commuter chaos: Crash shuts down Portland MAX LRT during PM rush hour

COMMUTER CHAOS STORY Crash shuts down Portland MAX LRT during PM rush hour FROM: Portland, Oregon – July 19, 2018 Just yesterday, Portland’s MAX light rail system was disrupted during the afternoon rush hour after a collision between a MAX LRT train and a truck on the Portland’s Steel Bridge. If a similar incident had […]

Commuter chaos: Portland streetcar shut down for entire day after streetcar derails in crash

COMMUTER CHAOS STORY Portland streetcar lines shut down for entire day after streetcar derails in crash FROM: Portland, Oregon – May 25, 2018 Portland’s streetcar system was put through a full-day shutdown after a collision knocked a streetcar off of the tracks and into multiple other vehicles. If a similar incident had occurred along one of […]

DEBUNKING MYTHS: Light Rail advocates and debt servicing costs

A special release by lead analyst Daryl Dela Cruz of SkyTrain for Surrey You can be said to have been researching transit issues in Metro Vancouver for many years, but you can still be wrong about what you know about transit issues. If so, they would do themselves an injustice because, as provincial and  federal […]