by Matthew Buchanan | May 16, 2011 | Bus, Buses, City Transit, Issues, Regional Transit, Transit
BC Transit is embarking on a number of transit studies for communities outside of Vancouver, such as Victoria, Abbotsford and Fraser Valley communities, Kelowna, and Kamloops. Transit Future as BC Transit calls it, asks for public input for these different regions....
by Matthew Buchanan | Mar 31, 2011 | Bus, Buses, City Transit, Issues, Rapid Transit, Transit
New Smart Card There’s lots happening at TransLink these days. Today they announced the name of their new smart-card, to be called Compass. The smart card will go into service in 2013, after construction at stations, system installation, a pilot project phase....
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....
by Matthew Buchanan | Feb 3, 2011 | Bus, Buses, Inter-city bus, Issues
Murray Gamble, a Squamish resident has been mounting a campaign to save the bus that runs between Squamish and Whistler. The loss of Commuter transit between Squamish and Whistler, which will end as special funding drys up, is happening at the same time that the...
by Matthew Buchanan | Aug 8, 2010 | Bus, Buses, Ferries, Inter-city Rail, Issues, Rail, Rapid Transit, Transit
No, sorry it is not in Vancouver or British Columbia or anywhere else in Canada for that matter. I think it is possibly in Switzerland. They have built an efficient multi-modal transport system centred around the train, but integrated perfectly with buses and lake...
