By John Calimente
Full-Scale Model of Bombardier Flexity Freedom Coming to Surrey (July 1) and Vancouver (July 5-8th)
It’s been 2 years, one month, and three days since the Bombardier Olympic Streetcar got sent back to Belgium for good. But... Read More
The Sockeye Special: The Story of the Steveston Tram and early Lulu Island
Author: Ron Hyde (Friesens Corporation, 2011) Slowly but surely, Metro Vancouver is recreating the original interurban rail network... Read More
Transport for Suburbia
Author: Paul Mees (Earthscan, 2010) There are certain books that I know I’m going to enjoy as soon as I see the title. Paul... Read More
Building Type Basics for Transit Facilities
Author: Kenneth W. Griffin (John Wiley & Sons, 2004) We’ve all been in poorly designed train stations. Inadequate lighting... Read More
Metro Vancouver Mayors Make Bold Bid to Fund Regional Transit
Poor Evergreen Line. You’ve been talked about for so long that we thought you’d already been built. But no, here it is... Read More
Partnerships in Urban Property Development
Property development is a fascinating game with a range of players that increases with the size and complexity of the project. Things... Read More
Vancouver Turns 125, Public Transit 121
We kick off Vancouver’s quasquicentennial year with a look back at the opening of Vancouver’s first public transit system... Read More
The Colourful Buses of Seoul
Transit systems always want to paint their buses in matching colours so that riders can spot them easily. But what if different bus... Read More
High(er) Speed Rail May Yet Reach Vancouver
As always, events south of the border will have an immediate impact upon Canada. In the case of high(er) speed rail, the recent... Read More
Amtrak Cascades to Portland for Railvolution (Pt.2)
October 16th was my first opportunity to ride the direct Amtrak Cascades train from Vancouver to Portland. Part one is here, read on... Read More