TransLink order for longer SkyTrain cars shows SkyTrain is the future
UPDATE – 3rd Dec: We have obtained a copy of the RFEOI document and have reuploaded it here on our website. See updated link below. UPDATE – 7th Oct: we have
Misconceptions: SkyTrain "lacks community integration"
From Daryl Dela Cruz, Chief Statistics Analyst at SkyTrain for Surrey The words you see below were published in a recent article [CLICK HERE] posted to the web by Nathan Pachal of the South Fraser blog (http://www.southfraser.net/). I was more than appalled to see someone of such initiative-taking nature make such a mistake in assumption. […]
Urban Integration with SkyTrain: Plaza 88 – An Example for Surrey
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=InfnxRkximI] You may have heard earlier this winter of the prominent opening of a new Safeway as part of a retail complex in New Westminster, recently built adjacent to New Westminster SkyTrain Station. The new development is notorious in that it integrates more than 200,000 square feet of retail space directly with the New Westminster […]
Why SkyTrain: About the Technology
UPDATE 31st Aug: INNOVIA ART is now being marketed as a full-size metro! See our article: INNOVIA ART is now INNOVIA METRO Bombardier INNOVIA ART (Advanced Rapid Transit) is the name for the technology developed by the Canadian Bombardier Transportation; the technology/implementation is used by the familiar Expo and Millennium SkyTrain lines. INNOVIA ART rapid […]
Light Rail: Reliability will be an Issue
You may have seen one or more mentions we have made of the reliability issues that we may face with the implementation of an at-grade, on-street Light Rail system in Surrey. We would like to show you an example of what we mean. Without further ado, here is an image excerpt from a Seattle Times […]
SkyTrain Can Integrate with Urban Environments
While we don’t have much in the way of finished text content to share with our readers today, we would like to share with you some images we found dating back to the Canada Line implementation plans for Richmond. The images prominently showcase how the rapid rail transit guideway of the Canada Line SkyTrain line […]
Downtown Surrey BIA shifts playing field by dismissing SkyTrain in study
The Downtown Surrey BIA’s new transportation study excludes SkyTrain expansion on factually misleading grounds.
LRT vs SkyTrain costs used by Vancouver Sun are misleading
Our analysis shows that Surrey LRT costs would be almost as high as the costs to build SkyTrain.
LRT vs SkyTrain costs used by UBC professor are misleading
A significant number of people remain completely misinformed about LRT vs SkyTrain costs