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Portland: LRT ridership drops; Canada Line continues to outperform

By skytrainforsurreyadminPosted on July 28, 2012Posted in UncategorizedTagged BC, bus ridership, Canada, Canada Line, Canada Line vs LRT, cars, Community Impact, competition, competitive transit, connected, Greater Vancouver, information, light rail, Light Rail Transit, LRT, max line, MAX LRT, Metro Vancouver, Portland light rail, Portland LRT, Portland MAX, Portland MAX LRT, rail transit, rail transit ridership, rapid rail transit, Rapid Transit, ridership, ridership data, ridership increases, RRT, SkyTrain, SkyTrain vs LRT, Surrey transportation future, Sustainability, train, transit, Transit agency, transit ridership, TransLink, Transportation, TriMet1 Comment

Light Rail Transit (LRT) ridership in Portland, Oregon has for whatever reason dropped this year. TriMet has published new ridership data for the month of June 2012: [CLICK HERE]. TriMet also conducted a media release about these numbers, viewable at [CLICK HERE]. While TriMet reported that the transit system has reached a record ridership, this […]

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

By skytrainforsurreyadminPosted on June 18, 2012November 10, 2020Posted 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 […]

REPORT: Portland: subsidies and not LRT attracted economic development

By skytrainforsurreyadminPosted on March 15, 2012Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bad LRT examples, Metropolitan Area eXpress, Portland light rail, Portland MAX, Portland MAX Light Rail10 Comments

Portland Oregon illustrates the benefits of LRT Portland erected their first MAX LRT line in 1986, and today has a network of 4 lines with 85 stations.Portland has gained $8 billion in new development around these rail stations. They’ve also seen a 69% increase in the rate of development in station areas, compared to non-station […]

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

By skytrainforsurreyadminPosted on February 26, 2012Posted in UncategorizedTagged 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

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 […]