With the Victoria Regional Rapid Transit planning coming along and the province-wide 2030 strategic plan just finished, BC Transit held a pair of workshops recently to discuss their latest planning endeavour: The Victoria 2035 “Transit Future” as well as a status update on the rapid transit plan itself. I managed to miss the first meeting [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Victoria Regional Rapid Transit’
What exactly did the reporter mean?
In the latest Times Colonist article about fares going up, there is this line (emphasis mine): The commission is facing major capital expenditures in coming years, including bus replacement and development of rapid transit involving buses. And here I was thinking that the decision on mode type hadn’t been made yet. Silly me.
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 [...]
Say goodbye to rapid transit in Victoria
So the new alignment study is out and it (Times Colonist, BC Local News), as I predicted, takes Douglas St to the Highway and then the E&N route. All is good except for one little detail: they ditched the centre running lanes for curb lanes. What a lovely disaster. So lets count the ways they [...]
Notes from yesterday’s BCTransit open house
The latest in the seamingly endless studies about rapid transit is entering it’s public consultation and thus BCTransit is holding a series of open houses.This one is called the Victoria Regional Rapid Transit plan and managed the first open house yesterday at the Legion Hall on the Gorge. I doubt this will be the last [...]
