An environmentally friendly hydrogen powered passenger train connecting the Pattullo Bridge in Surrey to Chilliwack
Latest article in the Delta Optimist: https://www.delta-optimist.com/news/former-delta-councillor-blasts-skytrain-plan-1.24151714 The facts are not good at all for taxpayers. That’s what former Delta councillor and Langley mayor Rick Green is saying in a letter to the current Delta council regarding Metro Vancouver mayors’ decision to move forward with a SkyTrain extension in Surrey, saying there’s far more cost-effective …
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SFCR supports CleanBC and the health of the Lower Mainland This is the latest edition of our regular South Fraser Community Rail Newsletter. Please subscribe to stay in the loop of the latest updates! Our BC Provincial Government has led the way with their signature environmental legislation, CleanBC. CleanBC, as stated on the provincial government website, …
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“Organizing Affordable Housing and Mobility around the Interurban Rail Line” This is the latest edition of our regular South Fraser Community Rail Newsletter. Please subscribe to stay in the loop of the latest updates! We are entering a NEW world post COVID-19, both our economy and our environment. As important and impactful as CleanBC (the …
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This is the latest edition of our regular South Fraser Community Rail Newsletter. Please subscribe to stay in the loop of the latest updates! TransLink’s wrong-headed Fraser Highway to Langley SkyTrain debacle is starting to be seen for what it is…. WRONG! Know the FACTS… This cannot be allowed to continue. TransLink and the Mayors’ …
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This is the latest edition of our bi-monthly South Fraser Community Rail Newsletter. Please subscribe to stay in the loop of the latest updates! The recently announced purchase of Bombardier by the Alstom Group plus COVID-19 is a game-changer for TransLink’s SkyTrain plans that are yet to receive senior government final approval for the Fraser Highway proposal …
Last month we published a letter that Former BC Premier Bill Vander Zalm sent to Abbotsford Mayor Henry Braun setting the record straight on the public interurban rail rights, the 99 km rail line that connects Surrey to Chilliwack. It was under Bill Vander Zalm’s direction that the public rights to this line were preserved …
Below is a copy of the letter sent by former B.C. Premier Bill Vander Zalm to the current Mayor of Abbotsford, Henry Braun in response to his previous dismissal of putting passenger trains back on the Fraser Valley Interurban rail corridor: Dear Mayor Braun As best I can, I have been following your comments about …
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As the Province’s transportation study of our region unfolds, we will make sure they know that our communities wants Passenger Rail today. It must be top of the agenda.
No more waiting decades for Sky-High promises that don’t deliver.
South Fraser Community Rail is pleased to announce participation in the upcoming 2020 International Hydrail and Global Sustainability Conference to be held in BC.
Abbotsford Today recently sat down with Former Surrey Mayor and BC Premier Bill Vander Zalm to learn more about his involvement with the South Fraser Community Rail campaign, and the history of the Interurban rail corridor. It was Vander Zalm’s government that preserved the Interurban rail line for future passenger use by the Province of …
