We would like to share this hilarious image portraying the effects of a single blockage of light rail tracks in Toronto. The streetcars are lined up in front of a broken-down car. The tracks prevent the many streetcars from moving around this broken vehicle. While track blockages are a reliability problem faced by all rail […]
Competitive transit works! In April, east coast blog “Spacing Atlantic” presented 5 excerpts from a book called “Straphanger”, which explored Vancouverism and smart transit planning. The ordeal of an article about west-coast cities is appearing on an east coast blog named Spacing Atlantic is very surprising, given the distance – not just in km, but […]
Fellow SkyTrain advocate Eugene Wong has made his mark on the comments thread of a Buzzer blog article. He has stated that he is clearly a proponent of SkyTrain expansion as the best choice for continued Mr. Wong, we would like you to know that one of your comments stood out to our Initiative. We […]
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 […]
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 […]
The SkyTrain for Surrey team would like to applaud and recognize Alex Vowles – a citizen of the City of Surrey – for his outstanding response to a recent misleading letter bashing SkyTrain and calling the service a loser [CLICK HERE] that was published in the Province and also recently in the Langley Times local […]
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 […]
A special release for Better Surrey Rapid Transit, a SkyTrain advocacy group from Surrey, British Columbia, Canada. Enjoy, everyone! ———————————————————————— We’d like to have a say on the debates going on in the City of Toronto, where the loud voices have recently been gaining nationwide attention. Most recently: a continuous battle between Mayor Rob Ford […]
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 […]
Recently we came across the results of a study and article on Portland transit mode-share released not too long ago on the Human Transit Blog, written and managed by professional public transit planning consultant Jarrett Walker. The article is called “Portland: A Challenging Chart“. Walker and his friend Adrian created a chart which shows the […]
