Vision Vancouver ran on a platform of ending homelessness. After they were elected, they wiggled out of their promise by using the cynical semantics we’ve all become accustomed to from Vision. Their new promise was to end street homelessness. Even this weaker promise has been spectacularly broken. Under Vision Vancouver, the total homeless have grown…
Category: Transit
Underground Skytrain Oxymoron Puts Vancouver on the Wrong Track
This August marked the 5th birthday of the most expensive transit project in Vancouver’s history, the Canada Line. As thousands of commuters wait too long to board the 99 B-Line to UBC, Vision Vancouver and select media blow their horns about the “wildly successful” Canada Line, hoping to drown out the controversy and reckless spending the construction…
Kirk LaPointe’s Flip-Flop
Today, I would like to address the issue of transit along the Broadway corridor. As we all know, Mayor Gregor Robertson and his Vision Vancouver colleagues are promoting a subway down Broadway out to UBC. That’s pretty much all we hear from them these days — let’s build a subway down Broadway, the developers want…
Longtime City activist Tim Louis ready for November 2014 election – calls for expropriation of Arbutus Corridor
These are the highlights of my speech this morning. Friends and the media joined me at the Arbutus Corridor as I announced my bid for a COPE nomination to run for City Council in Vancouver’s November municipal election. I will be running for a nomination at COPE’s Nominating Conference Sunday Sept. 7th. — I am here…
Resurrecting the Downtown Historic Railway
Great analysis below is courtesy of my friend Peter Finch, who is an advocate for (and very informed about) streetcars. Vancouver’s Vision-dominated city council recently produced a report on the Downtown Historic Railway, declaring it “too old to work on a safe and viable basis,” and adding that “ridership was ….low” (attrib. Geoff…
If I were in charge of Translink
Translink has announced that in the new year it will raise fares by 10% to 12.5%. But these fare increases are not fair, and the rationale is not rational at all! With the cost-of-living rising faster than wages, many working people don’t have money left over for transit. The fare hikes will only push the…