Evergreen Line

When the previous GVTA Board agreed – under duress – to allow the Canada Line to proceed – even though the Evergreen Line was their highest priority – the commitment was made that the Evergreen Line would proceed at the same time.

16 « July « 2009 « Stephen Rees's blog 2009

When the previous GVTA Board agreed – under duress – to allow the Canada Line to proceed – even though the Evergreen Line was their highest priority – the commitment was made that the Evergreen Line would proceed at the same time.

TransLink to yank Evergreen Line funding « Stephen Rees’s blog 2009

The Evergreen Line is another foolhardy attempt to ‘reinvent the wheel’, with the doctrinaire that rapid transit must spur development.

Evergreen Line delay feared « Stephen Rees’s blog 2009

When the previous GVTA Board agreed – under duress – to allow the Canada Line to proceed – even though the Evergreen Line was their highest priority – the commitment was made that the Evergreen Line would proceed at the same time.

July « 2009 « Stephen Rees’s blog 2009

The Evergreen Line is a disaster, not enough ridership to justify LRT, yet Translink wants to build a much more expensive light-metro.

Vancouver Olympic Village likely won’t be the only shock « Stephen Rees's blog 2009

When the previous GVTA Board agreed - under duress - to allow the Canada Line to proceed - even though the Evergreen Line was their highest priority - the commitment was made that the Evergreen Line would proceed at the same time.

Stephen Rees's blog 2009

Indeed it is not just the Evergreen Line which is being cut – transit service across the region will be cut – “unless we find new revenue, starting probably in 2010, 2011, we are going to have to start cutting transit service.”

July « 2009 « Stephen Rees’s blog 2009

Indeed it is not just the Evergreen Line which is being cut – transit service across the region will be cut – “unless we find new revenue, starting probably in 2010, 2011, we are going to have to start cutting transit service.”

TransLink to yank Evergreen Line funding « Stephen Rees’s blog 2009

Indeed it is not just the Evergreen Line which is being cut – transit service across the region will be cut – “unless we find new revenue, starting probably in 2010, 2011, we are going to have to start cutting transit service.”

16 « July « 2009 « Stephen Rees's blog 2009

Just that when the Evergreen Line is the priority and the Province looks likely to step in and force some new local funding formula on the region, I cannot see the City’s taxpayers being supportive of this scheme.

March « 2010 « Stephen Rees's blog 2010