SkyTrain for Surrey, not LRT!

The compromise is SkyTrain: Toronto should be pursuing this technology and not LRT on Eglinton

The compromise is SkyTrain: Toronto should be pursuing this technology and not LRT on Eglinton MEDIA RELEASE March 22, 2012・Surrey, BC We’d like to have a say in the City of Toronto, where a continuous battle between Mayor Rob Ford and Toronto City Council over choosing an underground subway or at-grade LRT for the Eglinton […]

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

Light Rail Ineffective: Portland transit mode-share unchanged despite $4 billion+ in LRT spending MEDIA RELEASE February 26, 2012・Surrey, BC Recently we came across the results of a study 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. In the […]

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

[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 […]

Light Rail: Reliability will be an Issue

You may have seen one or more mentions we have made of the reliability issues that we may face with the implementation of an at-grade, on-street Light Rail system in Surrey. We would like to show you an example of what we mean.  Without further ado, here is an image excerpt from a Seattle Times […]

SkyTrain Can Integrate with Urban Environments

While we don’t have much in the way of finished text content to share with our readers today, we would like to share with you some images we found dating back to the Canada Line implementation plans for Richmond.  The images prominently showcase how the rapid rail transit guideway of the Canada Line SkyTrain line […]

Exploring the truth about light rail transit: why it will be neither economic nor sustainable for the City of Surrey.

Light rail will cause massive congestion and will unquestionably make living in the Guildford in the area worse.

SkyTrain is the only viable choice for rapid transit in Surrey

Transit needs to be built to serve the future.

Is LRT unable to compete with the automobile?

Is LRT unable to compete with the automobile? Reality Check Daryl DC (SfS Founder) August 3, 2011 The car.  85% of South of Fraser commuters, according to Translink, currently commute point-to-point by vehicle.  If we want to expand rapid transit in Surrey, then we must remember this crucial fact: transit competes with automobile travel. Translink […]