LRT vs Skytrain: Candidate Responses 2Two more responses to our last question, sent to mayor and council candidates in the City of Surrey, Township of…
LRT vs Skytrain: Candidate Responses 1Our most recent question, sent to mayor and council candidates in the City of Surrey, Township of Langley, and City…
Question for Surrey & Langley Candidates: LRT or Skytrain?This is the second in a series of pre-election “Questions for Candidates” — for mayor and council candidates in the…
Ken Cameron: How the Spadina Expressway Gave Vancouver SkyTrainKen Cameron, the now-retired strategic planner for the Greater Vancouver Regional District (now Metro), asked me recently whether I had…
UBC Skytrain CampaignUBC has launched a campaign aimed at getting Canada’s Federal Gov’t and the Provincial Gov’t of BC to throw in…
SFU: Want More Skytrain? Do the Numbers (Part II)Yesterday’s post about the Vancouver Sun op-ed by Alex Boston scraped the surface of what could comprise an effective business case for…
Where the Buck Stops — McCallum’s Surrey SkytrainDespite the Mayor’s Council and its 10-year transportation plan that’s been around for a while now, along with a bunch…
Mayor McCallum’s Surrey SkytrainLike 15 other Metro Vancouver munis, the City of Surrey has a new Mayor — Doug McCallum. He’s also an…
One More Time: Surrey LRT and the Broadway SubwayJust announced – again. Major rapid transit projects to ease congestion in Metro Vancouver The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, and…
A History of the Main Street SkyTrain StationAndrew T. Jones, an Urban Studies student at SFU, has just started to post excerpts from his research project on the…
Canadian Sprawl and Electrified Transit For All? Pt 2By Dr. David Sadoway Viewpoint Vancouver Writer in Residence (continued from Canadian Sprawl and Electrified Transit For All? Pt 1)…
David Sadoway: “We Need a Regional Carbon Emissions Plan”It’s really important to move folks (including Vancouver Council) to thinking about carbon emission reduction from a regional perspective. I’ve…
Back to Vancouver’s Future North Shore Rapid Transit ConnectionI wrote earlier about the six proposed routes that could connect the North Shore municipalities of West Vancouver, the City…
Word Out of Mouth: “Anecdata” This comes from the Cambie Reports Slack, where several contributors illustrate this useful word made up of ‘anecdote’ and…
Dec. 19, 2022Vancouver’s “Dinosaurs Against Fossil Fuels” (DAFFS) Way Ahead of Their TimeSandy James Planner