Showing posts with label Transportation and Transit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Transportation and Transit. Show all posts
Thursday, April 24, 2014

The Bus Exchange at McTavish Road and Highway #17 - Is it a White Elephant?

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With the build of the overpass at McTavish and Highway #17 BC Transit built the McTavish bus exchange and park and ride.   I have never ha...
Wednesday, January 08, 2014

Is the LRT idea dead?

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It has been almost three years since the release of the recommendation for an LRT and everything has gone very quiet.    From the spring to...
Thursday, December 05, 2013

2013 Peninsula Co-op Rebate

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I have posted our rebate details for our rebate from Peninsula Co-op each year since 2009/10.   In 2012/13 we got a voucher for $27.00 on $...
Thursday, October 17, 2013

New Roundabout at UVic partially complete October 16th 2013

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I thought it would interesting to make a short video of the traffic through the partially complete roundabout at Finnerty and Sinclair so th...
Monday, June 24, 2013

A short slide show of maps showing where many of the railways were on Vancouver Island

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For links to the JPGs of the maps, try this link
Tuesday, February 05, 2013

Time for business cases for bus routes?

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Should BC Transit in Victoria be driven by the bottom line and set financial targets for routes?   Should there be a business case for each...
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Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Commuter Ferry from the Westshore?

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The Westshore Chamber of Commerce is researching the demand for a commuter ferry from the Westshore to downtown . The planned route would...
Thursday, December 06, 2012

One way we could speed up the buses in Victoria

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At certain locations in Greater Victoria there are almost always large numbers of people wanting to board buses and this slows down the time...
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Thursday, November 15, 2012

The E&N - there are some questions not answered

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Yesterday the fourth of the five regional districts voted to fund the request by the Island Corridor Foundation .   The only one that remai...
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Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Island Corridor Foundation has 2 of 5 regional districts on board

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The Island Corridor Foundation managed to get $15,000,000 in funding from the Federal and Provincial governments for needed repairs to the r...
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Friday, October 19, 2012

CRD Taxpayers’ Association alarmed at proposed Transit Tax Hike

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IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 19 2012 – Victoria Victoria – CRD Taxpayers’ Association alarmed at proposed Transit Tax Hike Proposed transi...
Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Transit Fare Review

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BC Transit is doing a review of the fares for the Victoria Regional Transit and has decided to consult with the public after creating four ...
Tuesday, October 16, 2012

A few changes to the #11 Bus route that could save BC Transit time and money

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Many of our bus routes have remained more or less the same for long periods of time, maybe it is time to question this and see if there are ...
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Tuesday, October 09, 2012

Time for residential parking permits

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Right now councils throughout this region are providing free parking spaces for homes with secondary suites.      We have secondary suites t...
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Thursday, October 04, 2012

Time for a Vancouver Island Transportation Authority?

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Transportation is very important on Vancouver Island because we are the largest ferry dependent population in North America.  We have a uniq...
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Tuesday, October 02, 2012

Higher BC Ferry Fares - what do the prices look like?

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If BC Ferries applies the full increases they are allowed what would fares look like from Swartz Bay?  The possible increases are 4.1% on A...
Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Ranking Victoria bus routes shows how under serviced UVic is

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This is based on data from the fall of 2011. Victoria has 52 bus routes with average weekday boardings of 94,585 of which 37,569 are on ro...
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Thursday, September 13, 2012

Some sanity in Victoria Transit thinking - rush hour bus only lanes on Douglas?

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The Victoria Regional Transit Commission has seen the light and wants to have rush hour bus lanes on Douglas Street .   This is something...
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Wednesday, August 29, 2012

B lines in Greater Victoria

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In Vancouver there have been some very successful bus routes called B-Lines that in one case carries more passengers than most LRTs.   T ...
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Wednesday, August 08, 2012

Island Corridor Foundation Looking for $5.4 million from local governments

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The ICF managed to get $15 million in federal and provincial funding for track improvements but this does not cover a $5.4 million cost for...
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