Surrey won’t build light rail without help
Mayor says taxpayers have poured too much into TransLink SURREY (NEWS1130) – Dianne Watts wants light rail for her city as soon as possible, but would Surrey be willing to pay for it alone?...
View ArticleContrasting Canadian News Posts
Freedom takes Flexity to the North American tram market http://www.railwaygazette.com/index.php?id=44&no_cache=1&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=14068&cHash=3eea2ae186 NORTH AMERICA: Bombardier...
View ArticleTrams, Pedestrians & Bicycles + buses & cars in Amsterdam
Trams, bicycles, pedestrians also buses, motorcycles & cars happily co-existing in Amsterdam. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JeWED7Zilo Just to reassure the retarded dingbats amongst...
View ArticleA bad week for Clark’s fading B.C. Liberals
Another Canadian politico, deep in the doodoo the sad fact is SkyTrain, the Canada Line and now the the Evergreen SkyTrain Line are big contributors to TransLink’s financial woes. building more...
View ArticleConnected Cities ¦ Light Rail Transit or LRT
The Cardinal has posted details on the Connected Cities project before. Connected Cities is a European Union [EU] investigation into the question of how we can provide unrestricted but sustainable...
View ArticleSurface LRT will “corrupt” rail system
In a letter to the Langley Advance, a spokesman for “SkyTrain for Surrey” says adding surface light rail to the Vancouver area rail transit system will “corrupt” the efficiency and cost recovery of the...
View ArticleIs it time to bring back the streetcar to Vancouver?
Both Stephen Rees http://stephenrees.wordpress.com/2012/04/11/is-it-time-to-bring-back-the-streetcar-to-vancouver/ and Voony...
View ArticleNew Year Game On
In March & April 2011, the Cardinal wrote two articles for the Blog; `The Emperor has no Clothes and no Transit’...
View ArticleTramways, a tool in a global mobility strategy
THE TRAMWAY REVIVAL IN FRANCE http://www.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/IMG/pdf/Tramway_GB.pdf Currently, eighteen French urban areas have at least one tramway line and by 2014, nine more towns will...
View ArticleStadler LRV’s – Croydon [London] Tramlink
An official video promoting the new Stadler trams and Croydon Tramlink. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR-paeQhIXU and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRMvP-WC0ms
View ArticleNew Tram-Train service in France
FRANCE: Tram-train services on a 64 km route linking Nantes and Châteaubriant are launched by SNCF on February 28. Opening on 28 February a new tram-train service is now operational on the reopened...
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