Translink to run passenger ferries to Bowen?
Graham mentioned to me the other day that Translink might start running more passenger ferries.
I then heard the same thing on CBC, which talked about ferries being used (among other things) to take the pressure of roadways, especially the bridge. The proposed Bowen Island route would go from Bowen to Water Street Station, with a stop at Ambleside.
This is of course quite far away, with dates like 2008 being bandied about, but this is likely all to do with improving Vancouver's transportation infrastructure before the Olympics.
I still can't believe why one wouldn't improve the rail lines to Whistler and run high(er)-speed trains. No, instead we are getting an increased highway which should prove of nice benefit to all the SUV-driving condo owners in Whistlers, without doing a thing for anyone else. And get this, the highway still won't be big enough to handle the expected traffic during the Olympics, so they'll be closing it to most traffic and running buses instead!
Don't even get my started on the SkyTrain/RAV line that is going along Cambie instead of Arbutus and won't actually connect to the other two SkyTrain lines...
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RAV makes sense
They wouldn't make it a Sky-train line out to the airport because there is so much flat land out there in Richmond, and very little population between the two ends of the run, so RAV is much cheaper than skytrain. It links to the 98 B-line express which runs from #3 Road in Richmond through Vancouver via Granville, and right into the central business district, so an express bus is much better than a multi-billion dollar skytrain line right through some of the most expensive real estate in BC that doesn't even exist to build the skytrain on.
Oh well, at least they'll be spending billions of dollars on improving the Lower Mainland transportation system and up to Whistler for four months or however long the games will run? Sounds fine to me, everyone in the Lower Mainland can use an enhanced transportation system.
TransLink, RAV, SkyTrain: Incompatible with common sense!
Under the heading, "RAV Makes Snse" a writer says that SkyTrain would never be built out to Richmond.
So how come Mayor McCallum has been using the word 'SkyTrain' synonymously with both RAV and 'rapid transit' for well over a year? The 'fix' has been in for years....and, if you don't feel you can believe what I'm saying, just call Mayor Derek Corrigan of the City of Burnaby and ask for a copy of his letter of February 17th 2004, which he sent to all GVRD municial councils.
Anyone who sincerely wishes to see a region-wide, cost-effective transit and transportation system in the Lower Mainland had better wake up to the fact that, if another SkyTrain line is built here, taxpayers will not be able to afford any of the REAL solutions available - ever!
L. James