Stephen Rees's Blog
Blog URL http://stephenrees.wordpress.com
Located Richmond, British Columbia Canada
Tags transit, transport, transportation, planning, land use, Greater Vancouver, Metro Vancouver, port, freeway
Thoughts about the relationships between transport and the urban area it serves
Latest Blog Posts
- SkyTrain police catching more than fare evaders on Nov 21, 2009 in Fare evasion
This is a Vancouver Sun story but somehow it found its way to Global. (The Aspers need to save money obviously.) My only reason for posting this is that I have covered the issue of fare evasion on this blog for some time. And, once again, the real fi...
- TransLink to raise price of discount tickets, bus passes on Nov 20, 2009 in Economics transit
The Richmond Review this morning has a short piece on Translink’s proposal to raise some fares. There is also a very small amount of additional information on the Translink Commissioner’s website. This includes a link to a two page letter...
- Paying More for Flights Eases Guilt, Not Emissions on Nov 18, 2009 in Air Travel greenhouse gas reduction carbon offsets
There is a hard hitting article in the New York Times this morning, that rubbishes current carbon offset programs linked to flying. “The carbon offset has become this magic pill, a kind of get-out-of-jail-free card,” Justin Francis, the managing...
- The Dutch Introduce Road Pricing on Nov 15, 2009 in Economics Transportation congestion road pricing per-kilometer-tax
You can read very similar information about this new legislation at either Associated Press or Deutsche Welle (in English) The Dutch government approved a bill on Friday that will implement a new per-kilometer-tax on drivers. Beginning in 2012 the la...
- “Major Translink Reform Needed” Part 2 on Nov 9, 2009 in Transportation Urban Planning regional government transit Comptroller General TransLink Translink funding
This post is intended to be a more thorough analysis of the Comptroller General’s recent report on Translink. I know that she also looked at BC Ferries but that is not going to be part of this post, although I think it is interesting to note...
- “Major Translink Reform Needed” on Nov 7, 2009 in Transportation regional government transit governance TransLink
Comptroller General Cheryl Wenezenki-Yolland released her report on Translink and BC Ferries on Friday morning. I only heard about it on the CBC News that evening. So far I have only scanned what is in the report with respect to to Translink. I think...
- TransLink CEO Prendergast departs on Nov 5, 2009 in Transportation transit
Jeff Nagel on BC Local News reports that Tom Prendergast has decided to take a new job as president of the New York City Transit Authority. There has been significant coverage of changes at the MTA recently in the New York media. The job there is m...
