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The high cost of subway construction compared to LRT
The following excerpt from the UK House of Commons Select Committee on light rail, 2000, reported the following subway construction costs in 2004 Canadian dollars: Toulouse metro line B – CAD… more →
Rail For The Valley
The high cost of subway construction compared to LRT
zweisystem wrote 4 hours ago: The following excerpt from the UK House of Commons Select Committee on light rail, 2000, reported … more →
Take Transit Campaign to Province - From the Aldergrove Star
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zweisystem wrote 1 day ago: The following is a letter from VALTAC, published in many Fraser Valley newspapers and I believe sums … more →
TransLink funding crunch has mayors worried about Evergreen - From the Tri-City News
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zweisystem wrote 2 days ago: This is not surprising at all, with very little ridership potential and massive costs, it is real ch … more →
Schwebebahn Wuppertal - The 108 year old gadgetbahnen!
zweisystem wrote 2 days ago: The Wuppertal Schwebebahn is one of the most unique public transit system in the world, a true mono … more →
Time to Bell TransLink's Cat
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zweisystem wrote 3 days ago: A letter that appeared in several lower mainland weeklies. Editor: TransLink is bankrupt, but as eve … more →
Paul R. Landry: The TransLink tax merry-go-round
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Stephen Rees wrote 3 days ago: The head of the truckers’ association has a longish opinion piece in the Straight. It is not e … more →
Bogota TransMilenio 'BRT' selling 'carbon credits' - From the Light Rail now folks
zweisystem wrote 3 days ago: This is an interesting article, but badly marred by very poor research by the author. It also shoul … more →
NYC: Transport chief pushes more livable city, but faces anti-rail BRT "booby trap" - From the Light Rail Now Folks
zweisystem wrote 4 days ago: Ominous news for the Fraser Valley efforts to reinstate the interurban, as it seems New York City … more →
Get ready, Seattle: You're about to be a light-rail town - From the Seattle Times
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zweisystem wrote 5 days ago: Seattle’s LRT line is “four to six times costlier than other light-rail startups in wes … more →
Bus Raid Transit - A transit Panacea or a money pit?
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zweisystem wrote 5 days ago: Phileas woes in Istanbul. Many politicians are calling for Bus Rapid Transit, but really haven … more →
The aging SkyTrain - Pitfalls of a gadgetbahnen
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zweisystem wrote 1 week ago: The major problem with automatic railways, is that they age poorly or should one say, the signaling … more →
Rail reality grows with Hydro's revelation - The Vancouver Province.
zweisystem wrote 1 week ago: From the Vancouver Province and thanks for Brian Lewis for following this story! Advocates for esta … more →
How green is my rapid transit?
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zweisystem wrote 1 week ago: By popular demand, another posting on ‘green’ or grassed light rail rights-of-ways. Nic … more →
Property Tax, Property Transfer Tax, is not the same thing
Sylvia Sam wrote 1 week ago: Some of my buyers are confused about Property Tax and Property Transfer Tax. The words are similar, … more →
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
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zweisystem wrote 1 week ago: The title quote by Joseph Goebbels, famed Nazi propagandist, aptly describes the SkyTrain lobby … more →
Tram-train backed in the UK. Can we expect the same here?
zweisystem wrote 1 week ago: What is important to note is that the very thorough and highly respected Her Majesty’s Rail … more →
From the Light Rail Transit Association - Toronto tram contract finalized
zweisystem wrote 2 weeks ago: Good news from Toronto! Toronto tram contract finalised : Bombardier Transportation has announced … more →
The little railway that could - From the Globe and Mail
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zweisystem wrote 2 weeks ago: Food for though; has anyone ever thought of buying the old interurban railway? Would the current ow … more →
More on lawned rights-of-ways - LRT making transit corridors green!
zweisystem wrote 2 weeks ago: Making transit corridors green goes along way for gaining support for new rail transit initiatives. … more →
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