SkyTrain for Surrey, not LRT!

PRESENTATION: Rapid transit and Surrey's needs

Rapid Transit and Surrey’s needs Examining the modal shift in TransLink’s Surrey Rapid Transit Study alternatives This is a presentation document that Better Surrey Rapid Transit prepared for a 2013 presentation to the City of Surrey Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. The full 62-slide presentation can be downloaded at [CLICK HERE]. For its online release on […]

DEBUNKING MYTHS: "LRT will bring mid-rises, SkyTrain will bring towers"

From Daryl Dela Cruz, Better Surrey Rapid Transit Campaign Director Why does the City of Surrey have a Mayor that seems to have no idea of what she can do as mayor? Maybe I should be Mayor, because I apparently know more than she does about how cities can control land use. A recent Vancouver […]

DEBUNKING MYTHS: Light Rail advocates and debt servicing costs

A special release by lead analyst Daryl Dela Cruz of SkyTrain for Surrey You can be said to have been researching transit issues in Metro Vancouver for many years, but you can still be wrong about what you know about transit issues. If so, they would do themselves an injustice because, as provincial and  federal […]

SkyTrain for Surrey debunks the 1999 anti-SkyTrain “Greer report”

SkyTrain for Surrey debunks the 1999 anti-SkyTrain “Greer report” Debunking Myths Daryl DC (SfS Founder) January 27, 2013 We have released a new analysis of the 1999 “Review of Rapid Transit Project Claims” (a.k.a. the “Greer Report”) finding that the report’s release of misleading information resulted in significant delays in the construction of rapid transit […]

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Surrey Leader – Light rail not right for Surrey or Vancouver

Strike one for pro-SkyTrain! Today’s Leader featured a powerful statement submitted by SkyTrain for Surrey foreman Daryl Dela Cruz. Daryl’s letter challenges a common notion that SkyTrain costs “billions and billions [more than LRT]” (Dianne Watts, April 2011) by promoting the exact opposite, on the basis that SkyTrain generates more economic and productivity benefits by […]

Putting an end to the myth that SkyTrain is proprietary

“Anti SkyTrain” is a misleading mentality.

The SkyTrain Revolution in Metrotown

We were searching through the internet when we found a Canada Line-era presentation document that made a strong case for SkyTrain as a strong influence in regional development attraction and a shift from vehicular transport onto transit. The full document can be viewed at [HERE] Some of the pages/slides feature the changes that occurred to […]

Mode-share shift to transit prevalent in Vancouver, but not in Portland

Late last month, the online blog Price Tags by Simon Fraser University CITY director Gordon Price published a blog article titled “Vancouver demolishes Portland: A transit comparison“. The analysis found that Vancouver “demolishes” Portland in attracting riders onto transit service and encouraging transit trips rather than vehicle trips. As a continuation of this analysis, we’d […]

Next-generation SkyTrain vehicles showcase future for Surrey

IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Surrey, BC An announcement today [LINK HERE] highlights that a contract has been signed with Bombardier to supply the vehicular rolling stock of the Evergreen Line.   The order was signed for $90.7 million, a $3.2 million per car deal in line with previous SkyTrain vehicle costs adjusted for inflation. This marks the […]

GALLERY – Next generation SkyTrain cars (Bombardier INNOVIA Metro 300)

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