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…
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…
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…
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