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Poor fare revenue and LRT ridership cause free fare zone removal in Portland

By skytrainforsurreyadminPosted on June 18, 2012Posted in Media ReleaseTagged bad examples, Bad LRT examples, British Columbia, Canada, Community Impact, competition, competitive transit, Economic development, Economics, Examples, light rail, light rail advocates, Light Rail Transit, light rail transit advocates, limitations, LRT, LRT advocates, LRT fail, LRT failure, max light rail, Metro Vancouver, Metropolitan Area eXpress, misinformation, misleading, OR, Portland, Portland light rail, Portland MAX, Portland MAX Light Rail, Portland MAX LRT, portland transit, rail transit, rapid rail transit, Rapid Transit, SkyTrain, SkyTrain for Surrey, Surrey, Surrey transit, Surrey transportation, Surrey transportation future, Sustainability, train, transit, transit corruption, TransLink, Transportation, TriMet, vision3 Comments

MEDIA RELEASE – SKYTRAIN FOR SURREY ORIGINAL WRITTEN CONTENT Poor revenue and ridership cause free fare zone removal in Portland FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – June 18, 2012 – Surrey, BC Light Rail advocates in Surrey love to triumph Portland as a successful example of North American Light Rail Transit implementation. However, there is a side […]

Portland, OR: LRT is so cost-ineffective, unable to operate at promised frequencies

By skytrainforsurreyadminPosted on May 28, 2012Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bombardier Innovia ART, Canada, Canada Line, cars, cascade policy, city of surrey, Community Impact, competition, competitive transit, Economic development, light rail, Light Rail Transit, limitations, LRT, LRT fail, LRT failure, max light rail, Metro Vancouver, Metropolitan Area eXpress, misinformation, misleading, Oregon, plan, Portland, Portland MAX, Portland MAX Light Rail, portland trimet, rail transit, rapid rail transit, Rapid Transit, service intervals, Surrey transportation future, Sustainability, train, transit, TransLink, Transportation, TriMet4 Comments

There were a number of interesting facts pointed out by The Cascade Policy’s John A. Charles, whose research we have cited before (see references #39 and #79), about the Portland MAX in his latest article, called: Transit Hypocrisy. It is notable that he points out that that it has been said that there is a […]

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 […]

Inconsistencies in Paul Hillsdon’s 2008 “Transit for Tomorrow” LRT proposal

By skytrainforsurreyadminPosted on March 17, 2012Posted in UncategorizedTagged at-grade, at-grade light rail, BC, British Columbia, Civic Surrey, Community Impact, competition, cost estimates, debate, debunking misconceptions, Economic development, Economics, failed cost estmiates, Greater Vancouver, initial belief, Inteurban light rail, light rail, light rail advocates, Light Rail Plans, Light Rail Transit, light rail transit advocates, Light Rail Visions, limitations, LRT, LRT advocates, map of surrey, Metro Vancouver, misinformation, misleading, Paul Hillsdon, plan, Surrey, Surrey transit, Surrey transportation, Surrey transportation future, transit, transit expansion, Transit Plans, Transit Studies, Transit Visions, Transportation

Back in 2008, Paul Hillsdon (http://www.paulhillsdon.com/), today a Civic Surrey (civicsurrey.com) blogger, was receiving some rather notorious attention for his independent candidacy for City Council at Age 18 – and no doubt many people praised him for that, as would anyone with an appreciation of young people who are able to do so-perceived great things, amazing […]

Urban Integration with SkyTrain: Plaza 88 – An Example for Surrey

By skytrainforsurreyadminPosted on February 2, 2012Posted in UncategorizedTagged Economic development, Economics, Examples, Greater Vancouver, New Westminster, Plaza 88, rail transit, SkyTrain possibilities, transit-oriented development, Transportation, vision3 Comments

[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 […]