SkyTrain for Surrey, not LRT!

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. […]

SkyTrain type technology clearly a winner in Japan

SkyTrain technology (linear induction motors) is used in several cities in Japan.

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 […]

SkyTrain Dismissed: Downtown BIA Shifting the Playing Field?

Dr. David Hendrickson and Dr. Sean Connelly were recently commissioned by the Downtown Surrey Business Improvement Association to create a transportation study called “Leveling the Playing Field: Improving Public Transportation Infrastructure“.  The 35 page long study has to do with transportation problems and options for the City of Surrey. The study definitely found and decently […]