Comments on: Vancouver's TransLink Faces Serious Funding Gap

By: Lynda Brown

Lynda Brown — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 22:35:59 +0000

We rode skytrain with our grandchildren 1 and 3. There is no signage to tell you at what age children pay and other rates. Came home and had to look this up and realized we paid for the 3 year old and did not have to. It would help people to know this information as they are buying the tickets. Kids loved the experience expecially being able to ride up front and look through the big window to see the track and where we were going. Just thought I would pass on our experience.
Sincerely
Lynda Brown

By: David

David — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 16:25:17 +0000

Our Provincial government is moronic. The government unveiled a CRD$14 billion rapid transit plan, but so far will not give Translink any powers to raise more money for it. The entire debate is politics at its worst. The government doesn’t want to allow Translink to tax more because the government has plans to soak taxpayers with a very unpopular major increase in sales taxes starting in 2010

I don”t have a solution except to fire this government, but we can’t do that for another 31/2 years.

By: EngineerScotty

EngineerScotty — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 05:48:27 +0000

I have no idea how roadwork improvements could benefit Toronto without decimating neighborhoods. Certainly, there is no prospect of a freeway between Richmond (where SR99 turns into a surface street) and downtown; the other major N/S corridors (Knight street, Oak street, Cambie Street) would also require major disruption to freeway-ize. Unlike the Olympic Line, which is being done as a cut-and-cover subway under Cambie Street, burying a freeway in that fashion seems dubious; a project on the scale of the Big Dig.

By: political_incorrectness

political_incorrectness — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:25:38 +0000

Shirley Bond, what an idiot. What does she want? More car choking pollution and freeways? There needs to be a compromise and Vancouver needs rapid transit. They have an opportunity unlike most North American cities to prove they can be an oddity. Their transit is much better than most North American cities and one of the best ALRTs in the world! How much money is wasted with congestion, what road improvements would improve transit while not adding more to a downtown road network? What areas want TOD?

This is not a time for more cars and less rapid transit. This is the time to improve transit!

By: Des

Des — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:06:48 +0000

FYI, the Downtown Streetcar project is not sponsored by TransLink and is wholly undertaken by the City of Vancouver. At this stage it’s likely to be a month-long demonstration, only available during the Olympics (February 2010).

After that point Bombardier and Brussels will take their loaner streetcars back to a real city with a real transit system that needs them, and Vancouver will continue figuring out how to continue the courageous compromise (no freeways, poor transit, bare minimum for cycling/walking) that makes for great promotion, but satisfies nobody.