“Would we have a sustainable transportation system if all automobiles were electric powered?” asked Todd Litman, the founder and Executive Director of the Victoria Transport Policy Institute.
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BYD Sold Another 2,200 eBuses & Taxis
By Roy L Hales
This sounds like a golden week for the worlds leading electric bus BYD sold another 2,200 eBuses and electric taxis.
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Protesting Service Cuts to an Overpriced BC Ferry System
Thousands of people may be descending on Victoria on March 11, protesting service cuts to an overpriced BC Ferry System.
Notices have been posted in local webpages like the Salt Spring Exchange and Cortes Island Tideline Buses are accepting a $10 donation to transport passengers from Campbell River to Victoria, so that demonstrators can “make it back for dinner time!” Another bus will be leaving the Sunshine Coast at 6:20 am and will reach Victoria at 11:30. On April 1, 2014, the BC Ferries system intends to cut 7,000 sailings.
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Metro Vancouver Will have Canada’s Longest Transit System
“You know that it is a tradition in the tunnel boring industry to name the machine after woman,” British Columbia’s Premier, Christy Clark, began. “We are here today to christen this machine Alice, after Alice Wilson who was the very first woman they ever hired in the Geological Survey of Canada.” Once the tunnel it bores is operational, Metro Vancouver will have Canada’s longest transit system.
EV’s are Just Better Vehicles, in Almost Every Way
By Roy L Hales
Brad Gibson was so disturbed by the documentary “An Inconvenient Truth,” that he decided to never buy another gas burning car for commuting. He and his wife Mariko would share their 2005 Subaru Outback XT until they found an alternative. As they were both working, that meant Gibson could only use it part of the week. He pedaled the 40 miles to and from work twice a week, which was not always pleasant in rainy Washington State, and caught buses. At one point, his father offered to give them a second car, Gibson said no. Though not in the top 1% of America’s wage earners, he was in the top 10%. If people like him were not prepared to make changes, how could they expect anyone else to?