Adam Fitch, Special to The Vancouver Sun 12.10.2012 The City of Vancouver is wrong, at this time, to advocate for an underground LRT line along West Broadway to the University of British Columbia. Stop calling it the “Broadway line,” and start calling it the “UBC line,” and you will see my point. The city’s report…
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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…
Last stop for the city’s $2 billion Broadway corridor subway line
Originally posted By Kirk LaPointe | April 12, 2016 on biv.com It is time to take stock of what was once the unthinkable: that the Broadway subway line might not be wise to build any longer. The brave faces of city leaders would have us believe they’re heading out to the hardware store to get the shovels to…
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…
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…
SMART FOR VANCOUVER 