An environmentally friendly hydrogen powered passenger train connecting the Pattullo Bridge in Surrey to Chilliwack
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 …
The August edition of Abbotsford Today covered the South Fraser Community Rail Proposal, including an interview with one of our group members, Former BC Premier Bill Vander Zalm: View the August Edition just as it appeared in print. Click the button below to download the full PDF. Download Listen to the full interview (podcast) with …
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By Kerry Gold for the Globe and Mail Metro Vancouver has as much of a traffic crisis as it has an affordable housing crisis, with thousands of cars backed up on major arterial roads between Vancouver and Abbotsford every day. But TransLink, the transportation authority for Metro Vancouver, doesn’t believe that reviving passenger service on …
July 9th, 2019 By Kerry Gold for the Globe and Mail: Imagine a modern regional tram that could get people out of their cars and connect communities between Surrey and Chilliwack, similar to the passenger lines that have long existed in European cities. The line already exists. It’s the old interurban track that was built …
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