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Light Rail Ineffective: Portland transit mode-share unchanged despite $4 billion+ in LRT spending

By SkyTrain for Surrey press teamPosted on February 26, 2012Posted in Reality CheckTagged bad examples, competition, Dianne Watts, Economics, expensive, expensive light rail, global warming, light rail, Light Rail Transit, limitations, LRT, Metro Vancouver, mode-share, Portland, Portland light rail, Portland MAX, rail transit, rapid rail transit, Rapid Transit, Sustainability, train, transit, transit mode-share, Transportation, TriMet23 Comments

Light Rail Ineffective: Portland transit mode-share unchanged despite $4 billion+ in LRT spending MEDIA RELEASE February 26, 2012・Surrey, BC Recently we came

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

By SkyTrain for Surrey press teamPosted 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 […]

The disadvantages of LRT versus SkyTrain

By Daryl DC (SfS Founder)Posted on October 10, 2011Posted in Reality CheckTagged automobile, BC, British Columbia, Bus service, Canada, Community Impact, competition, Dianne Watts, Economics, Greater Vancouver, issues, light rail, light rail advocates, Light Rail Transit, light rail transit advocates, limitations, LRT, LRT advocates, Metro Vancouver, misinformation, misleading, rail transit, rapid rail transit, Rapid Transit, RRT, SkyTrain, SkyTrain for Surrey, Surrey, Sustainability, train, transit, TransLink, Transportation10 Comments

The disadvantages of LRT versus SkyTrain Reality Check Daryl DC (SfS Founder) October 10, 2011 Mayor Dianne Watts has claimed that SkyTrain will “cut our communities in half and destroy our city”, while arguing that light rail would help connect town centres and boost economic activity, creating a “vibrancy” in the city. However, several limitations […]