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[splashflash]

Only time, no more money.

[Victoria Watcher]

Seattle Times:


2 Line light rail service suspended

All Eastside light rail service was suspended Saturday after copper wire was stolen.

[Mike K.]

They have more than one line now?

[Victoria Watcher]

Currently they have zero.

[Victoria Watcher]

Cowichan Tribes don't want rail or trail running through their lands: chief

Sulsulxumaat Cindy Daniels says the Tribes want to take back the railway corridor lands that run through their Koksilah and Somenos reserves, to build housing

 

https://www.timescol...-chief-10876797

[Victoria Watcher]

The Island Corridor Foundation is touring a rail bus around Vancouver Island.

 

It was at the Alberni District fall fair this past weekend and it was in Ladysmith on Thursday.

 

The Foundation hopes the rail bus might generate some interest and ideas about how to revive either a commuter or tourist train on Vancouver Island.   

 

 

 

 

https://cheknews.ca/...ervice-1277718/

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 12 September 2025 - 02:20 AM.

[Kilo95]

You've gotta give them points for their persistence, anyways

[Mike K.]

Tenacious, for sure!

[splashflash]

40 km/hr speed helps promote the new lower speed limit desired in Vancouver Island cities and towns.

"He says most of the foundation’s tracks could support the hi-rail bus at a reduced speed of up to 40 kilometres an hour.

[Victoria Watcher]

lol.

[Mike K.]

Would it be safer at 30km/h?

[Victoria Watcher]

At 5km it could be hop on - off like a San Fransisco streetcar. Or a Bangladesh freight train.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 13 September 2025 - 09:05 AM.

[Daveyboy]

You've gotta give them points for their persistence, anyways

They are getting large yearly salaries so kind of expected if they want to remain on the gravy train

[Victoria Watcher]

They are getting large yearly salaries so kind of expected if they want to remain on the gravy train

2024:

[Victoria Watcher]

A plan to restore rail on Vancouver Island is gaining steam with a new approved motion by Nanaimo City Council.

 

Nanaimo City Council has unanimously voted to support a plan for transit to connect with the potential return of rail.

 

“Nanaimo is always described as being long and skinny, and that’s really how it’s laid out. We have this long spine running all the way from north to south in Nanaimo, and so that’s just really a great opportunity for the future when we can take advantage of having rail transportation again,” said Hilary Eastmure, a Nanaimo city councillor.

 

 

https://cheknews.ca/...f-rail-1282393/

 

 

 

 

 

It's important to keep flogging this dead horse.  Just in case.    

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 08 October 2025 - 08:21 AM.

[LJ]

I didn't realize that there were still trains running in and around Nanaimo.

[splashflash]

I didn't realize that there were still trains running in and around Nanaimo.

Just 10 miles of line - from the harbour to a propane distributor. The haul up the hill requires two locomotives to pull four or five propane cars.

[splashflash]

A plan to restore rail on Vancouver Island is gaining steam with a new approved motion by Nanaimo City Council.

Nanaimo City Council has unanimously voted to support a plan for transit to connect with the potential return of rail.

“Nanaimo is always described as being long and skinny, and that’s really how it’s laid out. We have this long spine running all the way from north to south in Nanaimo, and so that’s just really a great opportunity for the future when we can take advantage of having rail transportation again,” said Hilary Eastmure, a Nanaimo city councillor.


https://cheknews.ca/...f-rail-1282393/

The article is poorly written as the motion was for transit hub design along the corridor, not necessarily rail transit transfer hubs. The #70 bus to Ladysmith and Duncan runs every three or so hours, very easily meeting demand.
https://pub-nanaimo....ed&lang=English

Edited by splashflash, 08 October 2025 - 07:56 PM.

[Victoria Watcher]

Light rail on table as B.C. Transit launches update of regional transit plan

The region is at a key point in its growth, with residents likely to start asking: “What’s next?” says B.C. Transit’s director of integrated service planning.



https://www.timescol...t-plan-11336621




“So much has changed since 2011, particularly, you know, the way people are moving around the region,” he said. “I think that there’s an excitement, a strategic urgency that’s in the air with regards to transit and transportation for the region.”








Except that is absolutely not true. The CRD has stats on that. Nothing has changed in 20 years.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 13 October 2025 - 04:51 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

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