Rail for the Valley

The SkyTrain Lobby Is Watching You!

There has been a lot of comment on the recently announced VIA Rail car order.

User friendly a term scoffed at locally is really a big deal for transit customers.

Battery trains have been around a long time.

Being a member of the Light rail transit Association for 45 years, one has just more than a passing knowledge of transit.

First posted in 2013.

Erfurt – Germany In Germany, the average cost to construct a new at-grade, 2-track (double) street tramway typically ranges from €10 million to €20 million per kilometer (CAD $16 million to $32 million) This includes the physical track installation, embed…

The ION’s capital cost was about $818 million in 2017 (1.06 billion in 2026 dollars) for 19 km of greenfields construction or $43 million/km to build ($56 million/km in 2026 dollars), complete.

For four decades, the lessons building ‘rai’ transit has not been learned.

What the (expletive deleted) is TransLink trying to say?

List of 40 cities smilar sized or smaller than Bath with tram or light rail systems systems Zwei often hears the tired old saw that “we don’t have the population for light rail or the alternative, light rail does not have the capacity to deal with traffic…

First published in 2022, this post remains extremity relevant today.