Originally Posted by zweisystem on Saturday, March 10, 2018 at railforthevalley.com TransLink and the City of Vancouver have trundled out their end game for the Broadway subway and it is nothing more than a grifter’s delight of fake news and alternative facts. To remind everyone, subways are only built on transit routes when passenger flows exceed 15,000…
Dear PM: Don’t Waste Billions on Bad Transit Projects
Originally Posted By Patrick M. Condon, 25 Jan 2016, TheTyee.ca Toronto and Vancouver subway wrong for taxpayers, riders and planet. Dear Mr. Trudeau, Congratulations on your recent victory. I was happy to see that you support infrastructure investments, particularly in transit. Good on you! I was even happier to see that you want to spend your…
UBC expert fears Vancouver subway is still far off
Originally posted By Matt Kieltyka on the Metro News The head of the University of British Columbia’s urban design program thinks it may be a while before any of his students are riding a subway to school. After TransLink’s board and the region’s mayors approved $2 billion in transit improvements on Wednesday, Patrick Condon wonders if the…
The unaffordable subway
Originally posted by Elizabeth Murphy, June 2016, at Common Ground Metro Vancouver scheme has the hallmarks of a pro-development and deeply flawed transit strategy Equivalent electric streetcar network deliverable for same cost of proposed Broadway Corridor subway (Prof. Patrick Condon, et al, 2008, “The case for the tram; learning from Portland, Sustainability by Design: An examination of alternatives to…
Opinion: TransLink on the wrong track with Broadway subway
Originally Posted on CityHallWatch May 5, 2015 by digitalmonkblog. Special to CityHallWatch, contributed by Adam Fitch. In the ongoing public debate around the current Metro Vancouver Transportation and Transit Plebiscite, the question of whether one should vote Yes or No has generally been framed in one of two ways: Is it a good idea to impose…
SMART FOR VANCOUVER 