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LRT study ignores transportation outcome

By skytrainforsurreyadminPosted on May 16, 2015May 16, 2017Posted in Media ReleaseTagged British Columbia, business case, Canada, Community Impact, Damn big header, Daryl Dela Cruz, Greater Vancouver, light rail, light rail advocates, Light Rail Transit, light rail transit advocates, LRT, LRT advocates, Metro Vancouver, Metro Vancouver transit, misinformation, misleading, SkyTrain, SkyTrain for Surrey, SkyTrain vs LRT, Surrey, Surrey Light Rail, Surrey Light Rail Transit, Surrey LRT, Surrey transit, Surrey transportation, Surrey transportation future, transit, TransLink, Transportation5 Comments

[pdf title=”Economic Benefits of Surrey LRT Study”]https://skytrainforsurrey.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Economic_Benefits_of_Surrey_LRT.pdf[/pdf] IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Surrey, BC The City of Surrey has released a new report by Shirocca Consulting titled “Economic Benefits of Surrey LRT”, available on the city website. Our initial analysis of the report finds that there is a very wide gap between what this study is trying to push […]

Contradicting business case for Surrey LRT

By skytrainforsurreyadminPosted on October 31, 2014February 6, 2017Posted in Media ReleaseTagged British Columbia, business case, Canada, Community Impact, Daryl Dela Cruz, Greater Vancouver, light rail, light rail advocates, Light Rail Transit, light rail transit advocates, LRT, LRT advocates, Metro Vancouver, Metro Vancouver transit, misinformation, misleading, SkyTrain, SkyTrain for Surrey, SkyTrain vs LRT, Surrey, Surrey Light Rail, Surrey Light Rail Transit, Surrey LRT, Surrey transit, Surrey transportation, Surrey transportation future, transit, TransLink, Transportation3 Comments

IMMEDIATE RELEASE – October 31, 2014 – Surrey, BC A TransLink study has already found a negative transportation business case for LRT, which will contradict any future “P3 business case” for federal project funding. The Surrey Rapid Transit Study, conducted over the past few years, found that the LRT project has a transportation cost-benefit shortfall of […]