Visualising Bus Route Performance
In any transport system there are routes which perform much better than others. In Auckland for example we know that the Northern Express, and Dominion Rd buses are incredibly successful while I’m sure there are other routes out there in the spaghetti like network we have today that carry almost no passengers and probably a very bad use of resources.…
55 Comments The impacts of Vancouver’s Skytrain
30 years ago Vancouver didn’t have a passenger rail system. Then in time with the 1986 expo they built their first skytrain line, initially between the Waterfront and New Westminister. Other lines and extensions were made later to give the network that exists today.…
Grids Gone Wild, Episode 1
Continuing on from my recent post on our troublesome speed limits, I wanted to further document some of the other problems I see on local streets. I have a particular fondness for our streetcar neighbourhoods with their old homes and regular gridded street network.…
Melding Cycling and Transit
A great video from Streetfilms looking at how Vancouver is integrating cycling with public transit to extend the reach of its system and provide people with a really high quality alternative to travelling by car: There’s always an interesting debate around whether we should encourage cyclists to carry their bikes with them on PT (either chucking them on the front of a bus or carrying them on the train) or whether the goal should be on storage at stations.…
Thoughts on “Band-Aid” solutions
There are often two competing arguments when it comes to transport investment: Build the project now, you’re going to need it eventually
Only build what you need when you need to build it This is a really interesting debate, because both sides of the argument have a good point to make.…
Vancouver facing some tough decisions
The excellent “Price Tags” blognotes something that came through pretty loud and clear when I was in Vancouver over the last couple of weeks and researching a bit into their transport situation (although I was mostly focusing on land-use initiatives, you can never quite separate the two) – there’s no money left in traditional funding sources to keep improving the system, should they hold back for a while (especially as a few roading projects seem to have snuck in recently) or does Vancouver need to find different ways of sourcing funds for important further improvements to its transport network?…
Guest Post: Downtown Separated Bike Facilities: Vancouver
This is a Guest Post by Kent Lundberg, who is an Urban Planner at Isthmus where this blog post was first published.
I’m sure one of the things that Peter M will encounter on his trip to Vancouver is the expansion of fully separated bike infastructure throughout the downtown.…
Analysing Vancouver’s bus network
The comments thread on my previous post about Vancouver got into a bit of discussion about the quality of the city’s bus network. I thought I’d dig into that a bit deeper, as while the Skytrain is the “show-pony” of the transit network here, it’s really the buses which still do the donkey work of the system.…
Things I have learned about Vancouver
I was sad to miss the movie night earlier this week, as it sounded like a real blast. Hopefully something to be repeated in the future! I have had pretty good weather in Vancouver – although this is the best time of year to be here, apparently in winter it rains a lot.…
Off to Vancouver
As I mentioned a while back, this weekend I’m off on a holiday to Vancouver for a couple of weeks. I have a bit of an affinity for Vancouver – particularly its transport system and the way it has developed over the past few decades.…
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