Surrey council unanimously passes motion to ‘cancel ’ LRT

[ijmorlan]

Direct democracy where citizens do transit planning, oh that'll end well.

When people fall for lies like "we can build something for half the cost because....magic"...well, what can ya do.

I really have no idea of the merits of these particular projects, but I'm immediately suspicious of the claim of building a SkyTrain line for a little over half the estimate.

I especially like the bit where he talks about saving money by building part of it at grade. In other words, like an LRT often is.

I don’t see how SkyTrain is better than LRT in any way, except possibly in very busy areas where it may have a higher capacity, although I’m dubious that it’s really higher than multi-vehicle LRT trains. If they want to argue for more grade separation or whatever, fine, but what’s so magic about the specific technology of SkyTrain?