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E & N Blues
Want to kill a Railway? Starve it of funds and let it rust away and this seems the fate of the E & N railway. For a want of a mere $15 million to upgrade the tracks, the provincial government has...
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How to pay for Victoria’s proposed over priced light rail….. Don’t!…..Plan...
BC Transit is an old hand at inflating costs of LRT, so they don’t have to deal with it. In the 90′s, BC Transit increased the cost of the proposed Broadway-Lougheed LRT to such an extent, that there...
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Review of Light Rail/Tramway costs
A Federal Parliamentry Review of Light Rail/Tramway/Transit costs must be carried out! Both Fang & Zwei have posted articles in the past weeks on the high costs of Canadian Light Rail, Tramway...
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Bring Back Our Trams – A New Website for Victoria Light Rail – A question...
Our friends across the pond, in Victoria have a new website, Bring Back Our Trams http://www.b-bot.ca/index.html which contains some surprising information. Zwei has wondered why the cost of a simple...
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Why Is Victoria’s Proposed LRT So Expensive?
Why is Victoria’s proposed light rail so expensive? Our friends at Bring Back Our Trams in Victoria, like the Rail for the Valley folks on this side of the pond, are beginning to wonder aloud, why the...
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The Karlsruhe model of a dual-mode railway system
Karlsruhe: The Karlsruhe model of a dual-mode railway system Country: Germany Type: Policies Area: Entire City, Region Actors: Local Gov. Funding: Local Gov., Regional Gov., National Gov., Private...
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“Lightness” of light rail
TransLink, BC Transit, SNC Lavalin, UBC, SFU, and a host of North American Engineering firms, please take note! This ”lightness” of light rail – a combination of flexibility, low impact, modest cost,...
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U.S. (And Canada) Taxpayers Are Gouged on Mass Transit Costs
With BC Transit quoting silly prices for LRT in Victoria and TransLink doing the same in Vancouver and Surrey, the following article from Bloomberg should be essential reading. As the previous post has...
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Canada’s light rail renaissance
From the International Railway Journal http://www.railjournal.com/index.php/light-rail/canadas-light-rail-renaissance.html Light rail is experiencing a renaissance in cities throughout Canada with...
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Light Rail In Victoria Before Vancouver?
Interesting news from Victoria, BC Transit is recommending LRT for Greater Victoria. Though BC Transit doesn’t have much competence with modern LRT, the organization certainly has more experience than...
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