Originally written by Nate Storring for the Jane’s Walk Project Office and Knight Foundation. Jane Jacobs (1916–2006) was an American-born writer and activist best known for her writings about cities. Her first book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961), upended the ideas of modernist city planning and building, and offered a new…
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Cost Comparison Chart
Take a look at the International Comparison of Modern Streetcar Systems and Cost Comparison of Modern Streetcar Systems at the Proposal, Planning or Construction Stage.
Opinion: Metro Vancouver needs an affordable transportation plan
Originally Published by Elizabeth Murphy on: June 26, 2016 | Last Updated: June 26, 2016 12:49 PM PDT at the Vancouver Sun All levels of government are now coming to the table to fund transit. However, their current proposals are not adequate, sustainable, affordable or in the public interest. We need a better plan. The federal Liberal…
Globe editorial: Why has building new infrastructure become so difficult?
Originally posted by The Globe and Mail on June 17, 2018 Citizens mostly do a good job of recognizing the hollowness of political stock phrases. Yet there is one bit of campaign rhetoric that still leaves many nodding their heads sagely, if not reaching for the Kleenex: the ubiquitous “infrastructure investment.” Just about every ambitious…
Future streetcar gets dedicated space in design concept for Vancouver’s Arbutus Greenway
Originally Posted by Carlito Pablo on April 23rd, 2018 at 2:01 PM on the Georgia Straight A streetcar is part of the proposed plan for the former Arbutus rail corridor in Vancouver. The City of Vancouver is sharing the design concept for the strip in a series of open houses, which started last weekend. The nine-kilometre belt stretching from West 1st…
Densification near SkyTrain stations could generate up to $2 billion for transit funding
Originally posted By Kenneth Chan at 5:12 PM PDT, Wed May 18, 2016, on vancitybuzz Could developers be a big part of the solution to Metro Vancouver’s funding gap to fulfill a multi-billion dollar public transit expansion and improvement plan? To help alleviate transit funding woes, TransLink’s Mayors’ Council and the provincial government are looking to charge developers…
Repeating The Subway Lie And The Broadway SkyTrain Subway
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…
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…
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