Streetcars in Victoria
#1
Posted 02 March 2007 - 06:26 PM
Could someone tell me how.
thanks
Aaron
#2
Posted 02 March 2007 - 06:46 PM
Then, put the URL where your new picture lives between the IMG tags, like this:
And let the photo goodness begin.
-City of Victoria website, 2009
#3
Posted 02 March 2007 - 09:43 PM
Here is that map
Aaron
#4
Posted 02 March 2007 - 10:08 PM
I fixed up your link, btw. What you'll want to to is "right click" on the original image in its original location, and selection "copy image location" for the correct address to the image. Then paste the link in between the [img] tags but ensure that only the last tag has the "/" character before the "ing]"
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#5
Posted 02 March 2007 - 10:28 PM
#6
Posted 02 March 2007 - 10:40 PM
This is going to be a busy few months for me, as I am preparing for a presentation at Uvic on the subject of streetcars in victoria. This is on top of my full time job and a several other projects I am working on as well.
I noticed someone posted my letter "Build a New Rail Station" in the commuter rail thread.
Thanks again
Aaron
#7
Posted 03 March 2007 - 04:37 PM
Here are some drawings of mine which is part of a proposal to build a new rail terminal in the downtown core.
Aaron
I cant seem to copy the links of these pictures/drawings from the website. In the mean time copy and paste the links to your browser.
Aaron
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#8
Posted 03 March 2007 - 04:39 PM
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Posted 03 March 2007 - 04:49 PM
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Posted 03 March 2007 - 04:54 PM
#13
Posted 03 March 2007 - 04:57 PM
Also the downtown loops may not be large enough to warrant waiting for the tram to arrive. It would probably be more feasible to run a single loop from JB along Douglas and up to Hillside then south back to JB along Blanshard. Thoughts?
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#14
Posted 03 March 2007 - 05:04 PM
The light-blue route is a Vic West line that would definitely be successful. At-present there are four bus routes that run through there including the two busiest routes in the entire city.
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#15
Posted 03 March 2007 - 05:46 PM
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
#16
Posted 03 March 2007 - 06:01 PM
Aaron
#17
Posted 03 March 2007 - 06:15 PM
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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Posted 03 March 2007 - 06:53 PM
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Posted 03 March 2007 - 07:08 PM
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#20
Posted 03 March 2007 - 07:51 PM
During the 1970s, many new trams or streetcars or LRVs were being designed and built in Europe. Perhaps its possible that new ones would have been bought from there. During 1973/74 Victoria was doing an LRT study, and from what I am told from one of my sources, it was going to be built, but the NDP was defeated in the 1975 election and the Socreds took over and put an end to any plans of bringing back the streetcar. Also in 1973 birney car #400 was rebuilt and displayed in from of the Royal BC Museum for an number of years, before being shipped to Cloverdale and then to Nelson, where it is today.
In 1993 a streetcar study was done to look at building a downtown streetcar line from Herald and Fisgard streets, down Government to James Bay Square. This was part of the Victoria Accord. In 1996 a new LRT study was commissioned by the NDP to (like the 1974 one) look at a line from Downtown Victoria to Langford.
Continuing on the subject on what if the streetcar system was kept. The next phase would have been lowfloor LRVs or trams, similar to what is in Portland. I can only speculate, but with the growing amount of development occuring in our region, there is seems to be a growing interest in alternative forms of transport, like the return of the streetcar, and commuter rail on the E&N.
Aaron
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