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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City of Vancouver aims to have Broadway subway construction started by fall of 2019
Originally posted by Charlie Smith on May 2nd, 2017 at 10:58 AM at the Georgia Straight At this point, it’s unclear where all the money will come from to finance a subway line underneath Broadway in Vancouver. But that hasn’t stopped the city from issuing an optimistic projection. Today, the vice president of Colliers Canada, Dave…
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…
Next stop for Metro’s transit expansion mystery train: mega-cost increases
Originally posted by By Kirk LaPointe | April 30, 2018 at bvi.com In an earlier era, a garage mechanic confessed to me about the leverage an auto body shop has over the customer once the car was up on the hydraulic lift. In short: pretty much limitless. Up goes the car, up goes the repair, up…
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…
