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Your turn to Speak Up on Transportation Issues

Posted April 20, 2010

The Transportation Blog                

This is where you will have your chance to ask additional questions, or make a statement about any aspect of our transportation objectives that you wish.

In the short term, we are urging municipal and provincial action on a light rail option for Victoria and the CRD; but we want to move ahead on associated issues such as: (for the detailed discussion of each, simply click on the titles below)

  1. Vancouver Island Inter Urban Needs and Routes,
  2. Victoria CRD Needs and Routes,  and Current Status (Aug 2010)
  3.  Major Transit Node for Downtown Victoria?, or, like Uptown Mall?  or, Ottawa?
  4. Feeder Service, (example New Hampshire)
  5. Parking, (see how Calgary and Ottawa handle it), Security - TriMet
  6. Management, etc. (Seattle shows the way) and (Seattle's Mayor)

Here are some of the references that may be useful background for such matters:

The Victoria Prospective on Rapid Transit Options - September 2003

Victoria CRD - The ITO Proposal for a Regional Transit System - a video presentation:

A Transportation Architect's Summary of Societal Needs and Systems that Work!

Status of the Victoria Region Rapit Transit Project - August 2009

ITO's Motions for Change in Project Guiding Principles And, Results

  The Politics of Parking - Focus Oct 09 - Robert Wipond

"We’re paying a lot for parking. An awful lot."

Additional references:

Business Case for Sky Train, and Expert's Critique of Sky Train v.s. LRT

Rail v.s. Bus Deliberations by other Cities:

Hamilton, Ontario - (Plans)   Waterloo, Ontario - (Rail won)   Ottawa, Ontario - (Rail won)

But, look at what is happening now in Seattle! (Rail July 2009)

And, look at South Africa's Gautrain (2008 award winner)

Or, Valencienne, and Brest, France (our size), or Phoenix, Arizona

The future transit for and livability in Detroit!

Portland Oregon sets another LRT standard - free zone service!

Having seen all of the above, we invite you to:

Tell BC Transit what you think is needed for Vancouver Island

Posted in General
Tagged as airport, ferries, malls, hospitals, and lrt

Comments

1 Dick Faulks January 9, 2009

With rails IN PLACE on a right-of-way that is available NOW, and with an overwhelming expression in the Region FOR rail transit, it's time for Premier Campbell show his worth by living up to his words.

Let's see an immediate start on Commuter Rail on OUR Island tracks!

2 Sonja Young January 10, 2009

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Enhance the role of rail in moving people where there are existing tracks. Rationale: on Vancouver Island the E&N corridor is within half an hour of 80% of Vancouver Island residents. This year 4,000 more passengers have used the E&N, even in it poor state and with the train runninng the wrong way. Rail service would reduce greenhouse gases over 50% more than travel by bus; when tidal and wind power is accessed, diesel could be replaced by electrical energy for zero emissions.

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