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REALITY CHECK: Surrey Board of Trade CEO incorrect about Portland LRT development

daka_x wrote 1 week ago: In a news release by the Surrey Board of Trade promoting Light Rail for Surrey, CEO Anita Huberman s … more →

Tags: Debunking Misconceptions, News and Updates, reality check, SkyTrain and Communities, SkyTrain vs LRT, Surrey Issues, Surrey's Transportation Future, British Columbia, Canada

New SkyTrain rapid transit line opens in Yongin, Korea

daka_x wrote 2 weeks ago: Map of the Yongin Everline In the news, and I’m a week late to report this, the Everline Rapid … more →

Tags: Transportation, Metro Vancouver transit issues, Transportation, SkyTrain, Metro Vancouver, Vancouver, Technology, TransLink, rapid transit

SkyTrain in fog

Sri wrote 5 months ago: … more →

Tags: Transport, SkyTrain, Canon 60D, fog

Mode-share shift to transit prevalent in Vancouver, but not in Portland3 comments

daka_x wrote 5 months ago: Late last month, the online blog Price Tags by Simon Fraser University CITY director Gordon Price pu … more →

Tags: The case for SkyTrain, Important Facts, SkyTrain vs LRT, Featured, Transportation Future, SkyTrain, SkyTrain for Surrey, Metro Vancouver, greater vancouver

PRESS RELEASE: TransLink 2013 base plan includes 45,000 hour SkyTrain service cut

daka_x wrote 5 months ago: Efforts to overturn an upcoming service cut on the SkyTrain system have not immediately succeeded wi … more →

Tags: News and Updates, Advocacy, SkyTrain, Surrey, B.C., SkyTrain for Surrey, British Columbia, Canada, Metro Vancouver

an open letter to vancouver re: public transit1 comment

katiejgarnham wrote 6 months ago: Like many Vancouverites, I take public transit on a regular (i.e. daily) basis, especially since my … more →

Tags: Vancouver, writing, In Transit, Writing #2, Courtesy, open letter, Vancouver public transit, be a good human being, polite

PRESS RELEASE: 50+ signatures on petition against SkyTrain service cuts

daka_x wrote 6 months ago: With more than 50 signatures on a petition as a part of a recently-launched campaign against some pr … more →

Tags: News and Updates, Advocacy, SkyTrain, Surrey, B.C., SkyTrain for Surrey, British Columbia, Canada, Metro Vancouver

PRESS RELEASE: Initiative launches campaign against SkyTrain frequency reductions

daka_x wrote 7 months ago: A local transit Initiative has launched a campaign that opposes the off-peak frequency reductions fo … more →

Tags: News and Updates, Advocacy, SkyTrain, Surrey, B.C., SkyTrain for Surrey, British Columbia, Canada, Metro Vancouver

Day 252. August 2, 2012

365daysofdawn wrote 9 months ago: The apartment we rented has an amazing view! What a view! The tower. There were birds circling every … more →

Tags: Fun, Travel, electric owl vancouver, apartment

Misconceptions: SkyTrain technology is "proprietary"3 comments

daka_x wrote 11 months ago: “SkyTrain technology”, as it is so often described (although this is incorrect – S … more →

Tags: Important Facts, SkyTrain, Transportation, Bombardier, Bombardier Innovia ART, SkyTrain technology, skytrain system, rapid transit system, automation technologies

The compromise is SkyTrain: Toronto should be pursuing this technology and not LRT on Eglinton6 comments

daka_x wrote 1 year ago: A special release by the researchers of the SkyTrain for Surrey Initiative from Surrey, British Colu … more →

Tags: examples, automated rapid transit, Automatic train control, Bombardier, Bombardier Innovia ART, CN Tower, Competition, Economics, Eglinton

Vancouver's SkyTrain and Trolley Buses

csanders429 wrote 1 year ago: A SkyTrain is ready to board at Vancouver's Stadium-Chinatown Station. (Photograph by Richard J … more →

Tags: Railfanning News and Features, Vancouver British Columbia, Vancouver trolley buses

Rick, Yoga and Free Speech

wdfyfe wrote 2 years ago: I had a friend who once told me there are no such things as bad days.   He wasn’t one of these termi … more →

Tags: Social Comment, Freedom of Speech, British Columbia Civil Liberties Association, Vancouver, Public Transport, TransLink

Adventures in the Sky - (Only In Vancouver)

tenmillionslaves wrote 3 years ago: > It is Wednesday, around 18:20, at the end of September, on a hot, late-summer afternoon in Vanc … more →

Tags: rants, Vancouver, Liverpool 2, skytrain story, skytrain adventure, adventure in vancouver, Crazy Story, Stories to read, adventures in the sky


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