With the Trans-Canada Highway closed for a long period once again because of a crash, we can relook at the dumbness of Premier John Horgan’s decision to allow the E&N Railway to keep falling apart.
In Hungary, the transit authority Budapesti Közlekedési Központ has taken delivery of 37 Spanish-made trams, the biggest on the planet. Each of these nine-section articulated vehicles is just under 56 metres long. They can hold (drum roll) 362 seated passengers, 562 if standees are included. Can you imagine a few of these on the E&N or shuttling passengers between Victoria and Sidney and Swartz Bay?
By ignoring the incredible capacity of the E&N, our premier is taking a dangerously unbalanced approach to fixing our transportation problems, one destined to flop.
Louis Guilbault
Victoria
