SkyTrain Archives - SkyTrain for Surrey, not LRT!

Calgary transit chaos shows LRT has no place in Surrey and Metro Vancouver

By skytrainforsurreyadminPosted on October 18, 2024Posted in Commuter ChaosTagged BC, BC conservatives, BC election 2024, BC government, BC NDP, British Columbia, city of surrey, community building, conservatives, development, Expo Line, Expo Line Langley Extension, fraser highway, Fraser Hwy, Fraser SkyTrain, Greater Vancouver, Guildford, King George Blvd, Langley Extension, light rail, light rail advocates, Light Rail Transit, light rail transit advocates, LRT, Metro Vancouver, Millennium Line, misinformation, Newton, rapid rail transit, Rapid Transit, SkyTrain, SkyTrain for Surrey, SkyTrain vs LRT, street-level, street-level light rail, street-level LRT, Surrey, Surrey transit, Surrey transportation, Surrey transportation future, Surrey-Newton-Guildford, Surrey-Newton-Guildford LRT, Sustainability, transit, TransLink, Transportation

A video clip shows massive crowds swarming a Calgary Transit bus, which was assisting due to the shutdown of a surface light rail line due to an accident.

BC NDP’s non-support could set SkyTrain to Newton back by decades

By skytrainforsurreyadminPosted on October 10, 2024Posted in Media ReleaseTagged BC, BC conservatives, BC government, BC NDP, British Columbia, community building, development, Expo Line, Expo Line Langley Extension, fraser highway, Fraser Hwy, Fraser SkyTrain, Greater Vancouver, Guildford, ity of surrey, King George Blvd, Langley Extension, Metro Vancouver, Millennium Line, NDP, Newton, rapid rail transit, Rapid Transit, SkyTrain, SkyTrain for Surrey, SkyTrain vs LRT, Surrey, Surrey transit, Surrey transportation, Surrey transportation future, Sustainability, transit, TransLink, Transportation

The BC NDP have not pledged to match the BC Conservatives’ promise for SkyTrain to Newton.

SkyTrain for Surrey — Our Provincial Election 2024 Voters’ Guide

By skytrainforsurreyadminPosted on October 10, 2024Posted in Campaign UpdateTagged BC, British Columbia, city of surrey, community building, development, Expo Line, Expo Line Langley Extension, fraser highway, Fraser Hwy, Fraser SkyTrain, Greater Vancouver, Guildford, King George, King George Blvd, King George Boulevard, Langley Extension, Metro Vancouver, Newton, rapid rail transit, Rapid Transit, Regional Transportation Vision, SkyTrain, SkyTrain for Surrey, SkyTrain vs LRT, Surrey, Surrey transit, Surrey transportation, Surrey transportation future, Surrey-Newton-Guildford, Sustainability, transit, TransLink

It’s time to bring Surrey and Langley in line with the rest of the region. That means building SkyTrain to both Langley City and Newton.

SkyTrain advocates applaud BC Conservative commitment to SkyTrain to Newton

By skytrainforsurreyadminPosted on October 3, 2024Posted in Media ReleaseTagged BC, BC conservatives, BC government, BC NDP, British Columbia, community building, development, Expo Line, Expo Line Langley Extension, fraser highway, Fraser Hwy, Fraser SkyTrain, Greater Vancouver, Guildford, ity of surrey, King George Blvd, Langley Extension, Metro Vancouver, Millennium Line, NDP, Newton, rapid rail transit, Rapid Transit, SkyTrain, SkyTrain for Surrey, SkyTrain vs LRT, Surrey, Surrey transit, Surrey transportation, Surrey transportation future, Sustainability, transit, TransLink, Transportation

We applaud the BC Conservative Party’s commitment to building a King George Boulevard SkyTrain to Newton in Surrey and clearly indicating that this will be SkyTrain, not light rail.

SkyTrain for Surrey calls for cancelled Calgary Green Line LRT funding to be redirected to Surrey-Langley SkyTrain

By skytrainforsurreyadminPosted on September 4, 2024Posted in Media ReleaseTagged Alberta government, Alberta UCP, BC, BC NDP, British Columbia, Calgary, Calgary LRT, city of surrey, community building, development, Expo Line, Expo Line Langley Extension, fraser highway, Fraser Hwy, Fraser SkyTrain, Greater Vancouver, Green Line, Green Line LRT, Guildford, King George Blvd, Langley Extension, light rail, light rail advocates, Light Rail Transit, light rail transit advocates, LRT, Metro Vancouver, Millennium Line, misinformation, NDP, Newton, rapid rail transit, Rapid Transit, SkyTrain, SkyTrain for Surrey, SkyTrain vs LRT, street-level, street-level light rail, street-level LRT, Surrey, Surrey transit, Surrey transportation, Surrey transportation future, Sustainability, transit, TransLink, Transportation, UCP

We have written the Minister of Transport asking to redirect funding from the Calgary LRT Green Line to the Surrey-Langley SkyTrain.

Surrey Langley SkyTrain still Canada’s best-value transit project despite cost increase

By skytrainforsurreyadminPosted on September 4, 2024Posted in Campaign Update, Media ReleaseTagged BC, BC government, BC NDP, British Columbia, city of surrey, community building, development, Expo Line, Expo Line Langley Extension, fraser highway, Fraser Hwy, Fraser SkyTrain, Greater Vancouver, Guildford, King George Blvd, Langley Extension, light rail, light rail advocates, Light Rail Transit, light rail transit advocates, LRT, Metro Vancouver, Millennium Line, misinformation, NDP, Newton, rapid rail transit, Rapid Transit, SkyTrain, SkyTrain for Surrey, SkyTrain vs LRT, street-level, street-level light rail, street-level LRT, Surrey, Surrey transit, Surrey transportation, Surrey transportation future, transit, TransLink, Transportation

Despite recent cost increases, the SLS remains Canada’s best value transit project, costing less per-kilometre than many surface LRT proposals.

The Surrey-Langley SkyTrain has catalyzed a new UBC campus

By skytrainforsurreyadminPosted on November 3, 2021Posted in Media ReleaseTagged BC, British Columbia, city of surrey, community building, development, Expo Line, Expo Line Langley Extension, fraser highway, Fraser Hwy, Fraser SkyTrain, Greater Vancouver, Guildford, King George Blvd, Langley Extension, light rail, light rail advocates, Light Rail Transit, light rail transit advocates, LRT, Metro Vancouver, Millennium Line, misinformation, Newton, rapid rail transit, Rapid Transit, SkyTrain, SkyTrain for Surrey, SkyTrain vs LRT, street-level, street-level light rail, street-level LRT, Surrey, Surrey transit, Surrey transportation, Surrey transportation future, Surrey-Newton-Guildford, Surrey-Newton-Guildford LRT, Sustainability, transit, TransLink, Transportation

A UBC campus will be only a 22-minute SkyTrain ride from downtown Langley City.

Ottawa pays the price for rejection of SkyTrain technology

By skytrainforsurreyadminPosted on October 19, 2021Posted in Commuter ChaosTagged BC, British Columbia, city of surrey, community building, development, Expo Line, Expo Line Langley Extension, fraser highway, Fraser Hwy, Fraser SkyTrain, Greater Vancouver, Guildford, King George Blvd, Langley Extension, light rail, light rail advocates, Light Rail Transit, light rail transit advocates, LRT, Metro Vancouver, Millennium Line, misinformation, Newton, rapid rail transit, Rapid Transit, SkyTrain, SkyTrain for Surrey, SkyTrain vs LRT, street-level, street-level light rail, street-level LRT, Surrey, Surrey transit, Surrey transportation, Surrey transportation future, Surrey-Newton-Guildford, Surrey-Newton-Guildford LRT, Sustainability, transit, TransLink, Transportation

What if Ottawa took Alstom’s advice in 2009 and built a SkyTrain-style system, instead of an LRT system that constantly derails???

It’s time to build SkyTrain on King George Boulevard – #buildKGS

By skytrainforsurreyadminPosted on October 12, 2021Posted in Media ReleaseTagged BC, British Columbia, city of surrey, community building, development, Expo Line, Expo Line Langley Extension, fraser highway, Fraser Hwy, Fraser SkyTrain, Greater Vancouver, Guildford, King George Blvd, Langley Extension, light rail, light rail advocates, Light Rail Transit, light rail transit advocates, LRT, Metro Vancouver, Millennium Line, misinformation, Newton, rapid rail transit, Rapid Transit, SkyTrain, SkyTrain for Surrey, SkyTrain vs LRT, street-level, street-level light rail, street-level LRT, Surrey, Surrey transit, Surrey transportation, Surrey transportation future, Surrey-Newton-Guildford, Surrey-Newton-Guildford LRT, Sustainability, transit, TransLink, Transportation

We believe that no further study is required to assess the need for grade-separated rapid transit (SkyTrain) on King George Boulevard.

TransLink documents demonstrate that the Surrey-Langley SkyTrain is in fact delayed – #buildSLS

By skytrainforsurreyadminPosted on September 24, 2021Posted in Media ReleaseTagged BC, British Columbia, city of surrey, community building, development, Expo Line, Expo Line Langley Extension, fraser highway, Fraser Hwy, Fraser SkyTrain, Greater Vancouver, Guildford, King George Blvd, Langley Extension, light rail, light rail advocates, Light Rail Transit, light rail transit advocates, LRT, Metro Vancouver, Millennium Line, misinformation, Newton, rapid rail transit, Rapid Transit, SkyTrain, SkyTrain for Surrey, SkyTrain vs LRT, street-level, street-level light rail, street-level LRT, Surrey, Surrey transit, Surrey transportation, Surrey transportation future, Surrey-Newton-Guildford, Surrey-Newton-Guildford LRT, Sustainability, transit, TransLink, Transportation

Despite comments that there is “no delay”, there is a clear discrepancy between the project timelines released by TransLink’s SLS project team before COVID-19 and the project timeline suggested now.