by Rick | Oct 17, 2020 | Inter-city bus, Inter-city Rail
The following letter was sent to B.C.’s Minister of Environment and Climate Change Strategy in 2019. It was sent as a personal communication but the points, I believe, are supportable by TABC. The Minister’s Constituency Office reply follows the letter. Since this...
by Rick | Apr 7, 2020 | Ferries, Inter-city bus, Inter-city Rail, Transit
The following was gathered from various web sites on April 3. Given the fluidity of the current situation, further changes may happen quickly and with little notice.BC Bus North (https://bcbus.ca/): The company has introduced additional cleaning protocols but its web...
by Rick | Sep 9, 2017 | Bus, Inter-city bus, Issues, Regional Transit
=============================================================================== BC’s new NDP government cancelled bridge tolls on TransLink’s Golden Ears and the province’s Port Mann bridges, as promised in the recent election campaign. Member...
by Rick | Dec 5, 2014 | Bus, City Transit, Inter-city bus, Inter-city Rail, Issues, Publications, Rail, Regional Transit, Studies, Transit
The BC Government’s online survey for its latest 10 year transportation plan closes on Friday, Dec. 12, 2014. Transportation and Infrastructure Minister Todd Stone announced the next 10-year transportation plan (“BC on the Move”) and consultation in...
by Matthew Buchanan | Mar 8, 2011 | Bus, Inter-city bus, Inter-city Rail, Issues, Publications, Rail, Studies
The latest issue of The Sandhouse (Vol 35, No. 4, Issue 140 – Winter 2010/11) which is the journal of the Canadian Railroad Historical Association, Pacific Coast Division has a good summary of the Fraser Valley transit studies, one done for the BC government,...
by Matthew Buchanan | Feb 5, 2011 | Bus, Buses, Inter-city bus, Issues
The following is a guest post by Murray Gamble of Squamish. There are two Commuter bus services in the Sea to Sky Corridor. BC Transit and PW Transportation, the third-party provider, are partners in both. There are different Municipal partners for the two services....