The E & N Rail Trail, boldly promised to be finished by “the 2010 Olympics” just a few years ago by the CRD (PDF), is now finally taking shape in Langford. I thought I would bike out there and see how it measured up. For starters, this little section of the trail is tiny. Much [...]
Posts under ‘Rail’
Transit sucks for seniors, so let’s have less of it
Sometimes you have to look at the bigger picture to see the absurdity of it all. The Times Colonist has a pair of stories today, both talking about long running issues that are plaguing our region. The first covers the loss of driver’s licenses by and how the choices left suck. Then we have an [...]
Weekly news roundup
The Times Colonist is running a series of articles called Outlook 2010, covering a vast variety of issues around Victoria. Two today caught my eye: The latest piece on the Victoria Regional Rapid Transit project. Not much new here that I haven’t spoken about before, although it is nice to here the CEO of BC [...]
Ford saves GM bus
The Henry Ford Foundation is working hard to preserve a General Motors bus. This bus carries the serial number of #1132 and used to be part of the Capital City Street Railway Company or The Lightning Route, established in 1886, in the city of Montgomery, Alabama. So why is Ford money being used to save [...]
Daily news roundup
The sewage issue continues to barrel along, with a decision expected by Wednesday. The latest twist is that a proposed plant may straddle the border between the new CRD land and the existing Saanich land. Both the Times Colonist and the News Group aka Oak Bay News have stories on this and if you want [...]
Malahat crash shows need for better rail
The Malahat crash that killed at least one person is merely the latest in example of why we need to fix the rail link up the island. Imagine if this accident has involved one of the dozens of trucks carrying dangerous chemicals and gases up and down the island? The consequence are pretty horrible to [...]
Unconscious bias: the new BCTransit logo
BCTransit has slowly been rolling out the new corporate look for the past few months and as part of the new look, they got a new logo: One of the interesting things about this new logo is the inclusion of a stylized road. Few transit logos include any explicit reference to the service they are [...]
Cute Amtrak ad
Many transit agencies don’t know how to sell themselves, Amtrak included. But I think they really nailed it with this latest ad: Hat tip to the Seattle Transit blog for this.
TC’s special on Rebuilding Canada
The Times Colonist (and presumably the whole Canwest newspaper chain) has a special entitled “Rebuilding Canada”. That they are running such a piece now isn’t really a surprise, given the massive number of stories talking about an “infrastructure stimulus“. What really gets me is the focus on rebuilding and adding new roads. One of the [...]
Road, rail and Canada’s emissions up 21%
The province has just committed $500,000 to a study of using the E&N rail line as a commuter route. I think Les Leyne says it best in his column when he said “E&N study could lead to right track“. Like Les, I am skeptical. We have been drowning in studies over rail transport of one [...]
