Category: Transit
Posted on March 28, 2009
Ghost of the Interurban on the Canada Line
The ghost of Vancouver’s earliest rapid transit project, the Interurban line that linked the downtown core to Broadway along Cambie, rose from the grave today as city crews laid down the new pavement on top of the Canada… Read More
Updated on March 27, 2009
Peck offers first insider account of Olympic loan leak panic
Lawyer Richard Peck’s Vancouver Olympic Village Document Leak Review, Phase One, distributed at council yesterday, contains this striking disclosure: the much-ballyhooed numbered document system used to protect the Olympic loan secret had never been used before in the… Read More
Updated on March 20, 2009
Laying that steel rail down
Crews are hard at work along 6th Ave. between Moberley and Granville Island welding continuous rail for the Downtown Streetcar pilot project. The project is to be completed in time for the 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games…. Read More
Updated on April 10, 2009
By bike, bus and train
Three reports at today’s meeting of the city’s Transportation and Traffic Committee will excite the bike, bus and train enthusiasts out there. First, this report summarizes recent city bicycle traffic counts, showing Vancouver is doing well at a… Read More
