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- Ben 2012/02/13 21:55:06WonderfulIt's a very distinguished, intelligent name for a man. Good job, Mr. Downy, and congratulations!
- mm61675 2012/02/10 19:39:34WonderfulI like the first and middle name because it flows nicely, but the last name doesn't go with it at all.
- sharebear817 2012/02/09 19:01:52Wackythe name is wacky...but being that its robert, it fits the family
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- Cricket 2012/02/09 06:39:17WackySounds too much like a gas station to me, just sounds awkward.
- kitkat42 2012/02/09 03:49:09WackyI've heard worse.
- Cat 2012/02/09 03:41:58WonderfulI like that name.
- JCLadybug 2012/02/09 03:16:56WonderfulMuch better than most celebrity kid names....at least it sounds like a name.
- LaurenTheUnicorn 2012/02/09 03:04:54WonderfulCompared to some of the names of others, its actually good. i personally like it.
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- *~The Doctor's Rose♥~* 2012/02/09 02:55:02WonderfulOriginal and better than some other names I've heard. Sounds good to me.
- ►Cesar◄ 2012/02/09 02:05:10WonderfulExxon
- Sexuallobster 2012/02/09 02:02:12WonderfulOriginal, but not stupid.
- Persephone 2012/02/09 01:16:48WonderfulIt's not wonderful, but it could be a lot worse.
- Jessica Schultz 2012/02/09 00:47:17WackyRather strange name. But I Have heard stranger names.
- viewer 2012/02/09 00:29:51WackyMust have tried a new drug to do that
- Hula girl - Friends not Fol... 2012/02/09 00:28:35WackyPoor kid will at least learn to spell for the rest of his life. He'll have to engage in conversation just to correct his name.
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- Jennifer 2012/02/09 00:22:34WonderfulIt is better than Apple or Blue LOL
- ☠megan_massacre☠ 2012/02/09 00:21:00WonderfulAww that's cute :)
- Werewolfgirl1995 2012/02/09 00:08:28WackyBut I kinda like it
- Keen Tojones 2012/02/09 00:00:49WackyIt's a bit too heavy.
- Brosia - KarmaRaven 2012/02/08 23:58:01WonderfulNot as screwy as some of them. Unique but not insane. I like it.
- Kat 2012/02/08 23:57:11WackyToo odd for my taste.
- Zervur 2012/02/08 23:51:39
- oceangrl 2012/02/08 23:48:41Wonderfuli see nothing wrong with that name!! and congrats to him and his wife :)
- Red_Horse 2012/02/08 23:44:49
- sundance 2012/02/08 23:34:35WonderfulSure, why not? Should you think that its really that off the map, I have two words for you...Moon Unit...Enough said?
- Krissy 2012/02/08 23:07:36Wonderfulme likee robert downey Jr.
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- Jenna ☮♡ッ 2012/02/08 23:05:10WackyEh...I don't really like it.
- Grrr 2012/02/08 23:05:06 (edited)Wonderfulto me it sounds like an actual name, it beats being called apple, blanket, bloo bear, prince, blue ivy, etc
- Max7 2012/02/08 23:01:37WonderfulA very unique name
- Lorelei Lee 2012/02/08 22:59:41WonderfulCompared to the names other celebrities named their kids,Exton sounds very normal.
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- JackoClubs 2012/02/08 22:53:09WonderfulGood for him; one of the best, most versatile actors of our time,
When you can go from playing that screwed-up dude in "Less Than Zero" (which really wasn't such a stretch for him then, I'd say), hold your own against Rodney Dangerfield in "Back to School" (one of my favorite flicks), and find your edge again as Tony Stark and Sherlock Holmes, you're doing okay....
I'm actually surprised all the drugs he did didn't render him sterile.
- Gasbagmike 2012/02/08 22:52:08Wackyewwww
- Little Fawn 2012/02/08 22:33:12WonderfulIt's not as bad as some other Hollywood names.
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Today it was reported by Darren Rovell of CNBC that the ball was sold to the Mantle family.
Upon hearing that, I wasn't surprised at all, considering there's a possibility that Mantle's own son Dan claimed the ball was "a fake" in the comments thread of my original post.
There was no email address left on the post from "Dan Mantle", but the IP indicates the post was submitted via a Texas IP. After sniffing around, a source told me that part of Mantle's family lives outside of Dallas. Looks like there's a pretty good chance that was the real thing.
53-year-old Dan Mantle is one of Mickey's four sons. From WIKIPEDIA:
Danny and (Mantle grandson) Will played a father and son watching as Mickey, (played by Thomas Jane), hit a home run in the 2001 film produced by devoted Yankee fan Billy Crystal, "61*."
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STARKVILLE -- Out of all the teams at the New Hope Fall jamboree, Starkville High School left the biggest stamp on Scott Field. Against three top offensive linemen recruits on a team that went 8-4 last season, the Yellow Jackets looked the like the polished, veteran team by beating Callaway 21-0 on Saturday. As for that vaunted Callaway offensive line? Just 31 rushing yards to show at the end of the two-quarter game.
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STARKVILLE -- The Robert Gardner era at Starkville Academy kicked off Thursday with an 11-0 rout of Washington School. The first-year Lady Volunteers' coach watched his side score seven goals in the first half and hold Washington to just one shot on goal in its season opener at the Starkville Sportsplex.
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STARKVILLE -- As Starkville Academy's third head coach in the last three seasons, Robert Gardner has the attacking tools to make the Lady Volunteers a postseason threat. But will defense and youth be too much to overcome? One year removed from a Mississippi Association of Independent Schools Class AAA playoff berth, the Lady Volunteers are unsettled on who'll man the back line. Also, the team has just one senior (Shelby Carpenter), and no juniors.
Former Hamilton High School baseball standout Dylan Earnest has added another honor to his array of accomplishments. In June, Earnest was chosen to the Louisville Slugger High School All-American team. Earnest, a left-handed pitcher/outfielder, led the Lions to the Mississippi High School Activities Association Class 2A title series, where they lost in two games to Richton. He is playing with the Pontotoc Red Sox in the American Legion Mid-South Regional in Grand Prairie, Texas. He will attend Itawamba Community College when he returns.
STARKVILLE -- Jeff Terrill's positive energy is infectious. And it's a good thing as Starkville Academy's football program is attempting to climb out of the valley and to the top of the mountain. Today's home scrimmage against Leake Academy gives the Volunteers their first chance to play against a different team since Terrill took over at the beginning of the year. Eager, hungry, anxious and antsy, the Vols have been buoyed by Terrill's diligence in creating an expectation to be better than they've been since winning a state title in 2005.
CALEDONIA -- Samantha Brooks loves to build. Three seasons ago, Brooks took over as head coach of the Caledonia High School volleyball program with a stable of sophomores. She realized at the time those players had the potential to help establish the foundation for a program. The best thing about sophomores is they become juniors and then seniors.
STARKVILLE -- Playing as a team is a goal every athlete and coach will list at some point of the season. And as cliché and obvious as the concept might seem, a team won't get far with individual play. Starkville High School volleyball coach Lauren Love has been drilling that concept to her squad since she took over last season. Communication is vital for solid team play, but the spirit of playing for one another can help overcome any deficiencies or lack of experience.
Krisi Boren saw the progress last season. After making it to the Division II state title game in the Mississippi Association of Independent Schools in 2008, Boren watched as her team adjusted to playing against Division I competition in '09. The Lady Patriots experienced their share of growing pains, going 6-7 and finishing fourth in their district.
Michael Bradley isn't alone. Like most of his peers, the New Hope High School football coach was elated to start another season. Bradley has an extra bounce in his step because the Trojans are coming off an 11-win season in 2009 and have a team that has the potential to be even more successful this year. But as eager as Bradley is to get this season started, he wasn't very happy about when his team had to begin its preseason workouts.
Chloe Tapley is used to taking the initiative. As a pitcher, Tapley is one of the area's most proficient strikeout artists. At the plate, where she admits she doesn't feel she is as productive, Tapley has learned to slap or to get on base to help her team any way she can.
WEST POINT -- Sometimes it is as easy as sling it or chunk it. Julianne Jackson admits she doesn't have an array of pitches, but Monday she showed a simple approach is extremely effective.
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Burrard Bridge: a follow-up
July 21, 2015
Some remarks on the report to be presented to the Standing Committee on Planning, Transportation and Environment [2], On July 22.
Bus stop and line of sight at Burrard#Pacific
As mentioned in a previous post's comment, the COV planners indicated some line of sight involved by the Burrard street concave alignment at Pacific were cause of concern for CMBC toward the implementation of a South Bound bus stop on the South West corner of the intersection. The problem is illustrated below:
Hindered lines of sight for bus leaving a stop, due to a concave alignment of the street, exist in multiple locations on the Transit bus network. a short list below:
- University Blvd at UBC
- 41st avenue at Mc Kinnon
- Kingsway at Patterson
- The exit of the Bridgeport bus loop
While the line of sight concern are legitimate, they could have been overblown in the case of Burrard bridge. They can be addressed by external safety mirror, as often seen in Europe. Here there is sufficient room to accommodate an articulated bus at an angle preserving the line of sight for a safe pull-out:
We were admittedly too optimistic to see the City elaborates on the above solution. Instead, The line of sight concerns expressed at the open house, have since been replaced by the concerns on the preservation of a cypress tree which could not have been endangered by a bus bay on the south side.
We tend to see all that as excuses for inaction. Whether not, the restoration of the south bound bus stop on the North West corner of the intersection should have been in order. However, after feedback of the public, the initial proposal to move the South Bound bus stop further north has been given up. Instead, the bus stop will be moved south by half a block (from Burnaby to Drake). It is a step in the right direction, but insufficient: It seems nothing more than paying lip service: Transit accessibility is still much worse than it was in 2009 and before.
Pacifc East West bike connection
Our above proposal integrate them with an island to create a protected bike box, which can be given and advanced signal. the design to be submitted to the council also propose a bike box, but in what seems to be a more clumsy way:
The Suicide prevention barrier
This part was not presented at the open-house, and "popped up" afterward, the reasons why are unclear, since the City is supposed to have engaged with stack-holders ahead of the general public open-houses, where the issue could have been identified. Burrard bridge being such a iconic bridge, its alteration by suicide barriers, which also hinder the view of the bridge span, and affect negatively the user experience, raise some legitimate concerns from heritage groups.
Due to this, the request for more consultation seems reasonable. The city could explore alternative to physical barriers. The Mapo bridge in Seoul, Korea, using technology to detect suicide attempt, and then connect victim with help, could be an option to consider, after having a correct assessment of the experience [1]
Overall, The Burrard North end project seems to be a bit rushed.
[1] Many medias, especially in North America, have reported the experience as failure, because the reported "suicide attempt" have increased by a 600% after the introduction of suicide prevention measure. However many observers consider the experience as successful, since the effective number of committed suicide has been reduced by 77% . One can conjecture that distressed people could target Mapo bridge, knowing they get a chance to be recognized as such and get helped. On the Authority side, it also help to locate those distressed people, and provide them with the needed help to prevent suicide in general.
[2] Burrard Bridge Upgrades and North Intersection Improvements, City Of Vancouver, Lon Laclaire, July 13, 2015
[3] BC Transit Infrastructure Design Guidelines, Nov 2010.
[4] here we provide a design maximizing the line of sight. However, the required length of the line of sight could be shorter, allowing to reduce the angle of the bus bay.
After the Transit plebisicite: what's next?
July 3, 2015
The voters gave a big resounding NO to the Mayor's Transit plan. This plan was a draft which financial figures had never been finalized, what is against the South Coast British Columbia Transportation authority act, and could not have been approved in that form by the Council of Mayors for this very reason. In fact, even with the 0.5% pst increase, it was still not yet fully financed and was not sustainable in the long run [1]. The lack of business case for some proposed services, starting by the Surrey LRT, could have cost so much tax $ in operating subsidies that not only a sunset clause for the tax was ruled out, but a new funding source could have been required before the end of the plan: The voter voted against that unsustainable path, knowing that anyway, there is always a Plan B, as alluded by the Surrey's mayor.
Beyond the plan and the question on ballot, is the referendum framing. The referendum was asking to approve a Translink budget: In democracy, a budget vote is a confidence vote in the authority in charge of the said budget. Forget the "No" side leaded by Jordan Bateman and the CTF, it is the region's mayors which have called for Translink audits, Translink reforms…and fired the Translink CEO in the mist of the campaign, clearly putting translink governance at the heart of the Referendum. On the Translink vote of confidence, the Council of mayors largely echoed the Jordan Bateman's message: "Translink is broken", so ditto!
The stunning "No" side victory makes a Translink reform unavoidable. While, its Governance can certainly be improved, that will not rhyme with a better service. What can be done?
The Zurich precedent
In the 70's, in Zurich, like in Vancouver, the voters have say "NO" to a grand and expensive Transit plan, and still Zurich has became the posterchild of efficient Transit.
Eventually as Vancouver, a "No" vote was not a No vote to Transit. In fact Zurich said "YES" to measures able to improve Transit efficiency, speed and reliability ("Transit first plan"). A Measures such as bus only lanes and signal priority can go a long way to improve service without breaking the bank, and help to build a solid business case for heavier rail investment.
As an example, a newly painted bus lane on Seattle's Battery street, has allowed to increase bus speed by 20%, and reliability by much more, what makes Transit less expensive to operate (bus driver are paid by the hour, not the mileage) which generated 20% additional ridership, hence increasing revenue: all these decrease the tax burden.
Thanks to the still on-going federal gas tax program, bigger buses, be in the form of bi-articulated buses, like in Zurich, or longer articulated buses like introduced on Los Angeles' Wilshire Blvd and in countless cities around the world, can also help to address overcrowding while keeping operating cost under control.
All these don't require as much money as political will from the mayors, whose are responsible for the streets used by buses. Will, which has been sorely missing in the region and especially in the city of Vancouver where bus service is clearly neglected by the current council but where also Translink spend 50% of all its bus budget. That doesn't need to be.
Translink has also been too nice… for too long. It is time for Translink to be more assertive about its needs to operate efficient transit:
- Transit optimization need to be much more aggressive by going beyond shuffling bus around:
- A generalized bus stop consolidation policy needs to be initiated
- costly detour, like the Champlain Height diversion on the route 49, need to be discontinued… without asking permission to the city of Vancouver
- City of Vancouver charge organization like car free day, to recover its policing cost…It is time for Translink to do the same and recover the cost of bus disruption involved by street closure from the responsible of those disruptions
We have already exposed many ideas of Transit network optimization on this blog, and we will continue: Those can be a tough sell, but as we have already noticed, period of fiscal constraint are a window of opportunity to introduce network rationalization, and so build a solid fundation toward the expansion of Transit.
In conclusion, the No to the referendum is an opportunity to rationalize our Transit network and to emulate the Zurich model.
See Metro Vancouver: A look at the Mayors' plan Capital investment, January 26, 2015
Burrard bridge: the war on Transit continues
June 2, 2015
On June 1st, The city of Vancouver released its plan to upgrade the intersection at the North side of the Burrard bridge [3]:
Beside the removal of the accident prone slip lanes, and the reopening to pedestrians of the East side of the bridge deck; granted by a new bike lane; there is little improvement for the cyclists and pedestrians: Many connectivity options are still forbidden, either by law or by design:
Notice that the design allows to do a left hook turn from Burard Northbound, or Pacific Westbound since the intersection presents a Dutch interesection characteristic on its North side
Notice that the design allows to do a left hook turn from Burard Northbound, or Pacific Westbound since the intersection presents a Dutch interesection characteristic on its North side
- Same could be possible on the South side, albeit at the price to add a traffic signal cycle, to allow unimpeded bike/pedestrian East-West movement on the South side of Pacific. (but what are the priority of the city?)
- Alternately, the construction of ramps to allow to use the bridge underpass (lane on the south side of Pacific), could provide a solution if such is possible
Worth also to note that the planters separating the bike lane on Burrard Street would be gone:
- Such planters are insulating the bike path too much of its environment, what create a safety hazard at interesection
That said such a wrong step seems to be taken on Pacific
All in all, due to the non addressing of prohibited turns for active travel mode, the proposal looks more as a missed opportunity to improve connectivity for cyclists and pedestrians than a real improvment: in some sort, the whole exercise seems more guided by the ideological desire to remove a lane of traffic on the Burrrad bridge than anything else.
All that could be not that bad if the proposal was not used as a weapon to attack the city buses once again.
The Transit issue
When the West side bike lane has been built in 2009, the southbound bus stop at Pacific#Burrard has been decommissioned: another bus stop has been implemented at Burnaby#Burrard. Especially due to the steep terrain nature in the vicinity [1], that has defacto put the south side of Pacific street out of reach of the Burrard buses, hence the Frequent Transit network, while he Burnaby bus stop is widely redundant with the Davie bus stop in term of coverage:
Far to improve this dire situation, it is suggested to make it worse, by relocating the Burnaby bus stop ever farther away: the new Burnaby bus stop could be a mere 30 meter away of the Davie bus stop!
Why that?
Because the city so far has conceived its bike lane at the expense of Transit. The "legacy" bike lane on most of Burrard looks like below:
An obviously less than ideal pattern, which call for correction: a protected bike lane. That is good, but on the city watch, it is apparently not compatible with a bus stop. Of course it doesn't need to be…even in Vancouver:
Several ways to address the bike+bus interaction exist, as noticed by Jarret Walker. As him, we prefer a "table" or shared space solutions for the bike lane that alert the cyclist to yield to peds in this situation, as we have seen before:
It looks the city is more leaning toward a floating island concept, which is at least considered for the Burrard#Pacific Northbound bus stop: the important is to see the access to transit to be addressed. What is possible for the North bound bus stops, must certainly be too for the South bound bus stops
In the present case, it looks like the removal of the slip lanes allow for ample room at the south-West intersection to implement a floating island concept with a bus bay (to not impediment traffic) as suggested in the second illustration of this post.
In any case, the lack of connectivity improvement for cyclists and more critically, the absence of consideration for transit, make the city proposal a bad one. On a positive note, those shortcomings are relatively easy to address and we are hopeful to see the proposal modified in a postive direction
[1] a rule of thumb is to consider that 10 meters elevation change is equivalent, be in time or energy, to 100 meters distance on flat (e.g. the Grouse Grind hike is 2.8km long but with an elevation change of 853meter: that is equivalent to a hike of 11.43km (2.9km+ 10*0.853km) on a flat terrain.
[3] See also the discussion on Pricetags
Measuring the Transit supply In Vancouver (*)
March 12, 2015
When it comes to service delivery, the TransLink narrative goes like this:
Delivered transit service hours have fallen behind the population growth since 2010 reaching levels last in 2008. That is leading to more crowding, more pass-ups and a worsening of the overall transit experience [1][18].
The graph presented to support this thesis is usually a truncated version of the below one:
A problem with this narrative using the total service hours delivered by the TransLink subsidiaries and contractors is that it magnifies the 2010 peak, by including service provided for the Olympic Games. A second issue is that it includes the technical services which could vary greatly without affecting the transit supply. Below is an example of such differences [2]:
|Revenue hour service
|Total hour service
|difference in %
Revenue service or service supply means service dedicated to move transit passengers (passenger can use the provided service).
Total service is the revenue service + technical service (deadhead run, layover…).
That is matching the APTA definitions. Translink's reports tend to easily interchange the both terms.
The relatively important difference between the total service and the effective revenue service had already been noticed as an optimization avenue by the 2012 TransLink commissioner's review [17]. The more fundamental issue is that the service/hour provided is not representative of the Transit supply:
- The replacement of a 40 foot bus by a 60 foot bus wouldn't increase the service hours per capita, but it could address overcrowding.
- Faster bus routes infer less hours of service but are improving the service offer.
- The replacement of a bus route by a rail one, offering much faster and higher capacity vehicles, can both address crowding while improving the offer, while resulting in a decrease in total service hours.
Seat.Kilometres Supply
The seat.km metric; which needs to be understood as (seat+standee).km in the transit world; is a much better way to evaluate the transit supply, and for this reason is widely used in the passenger transportation industry.
As an example: 1 hour of coach service on the express route 555 using the Hwy 1 HOV lane can provide ~3600 seat.km when one hour of C23 Shuttle bus in Vancouver's Yaletown, provides only ~320 seat.km. Differences in average speed and vehicle capacity drastically affect the offered service which is reflected by the seat.km metric:
The effect of the introduction of the Canada line service in late 2009 is clear. Though service hours may have stayed stable since 2011, the seat.km supply has slightly increased thanks to a greater use of articulated buses. The advent of routes 96B and 555, having higher speed than average, also provides more seat.km at constant service hours. Is this enough to keep pace with the population growth?
The point is moot. If a downtrend can be observed since 2011, we are nowhere near the 2008 level. The introduction of rapid transit lines tends to exhibit a positive long term trend.
Canadian and International Comparisons
To provide a larger perspective, the Vancouver transit supply is compared to other Canadian metropolitan areas, using numbers as provided by the Transportation Association of Canada [4]. The Vancouver numbers have been normalized to correlate with those provided by the association [5] . Vancouver tends to exhibit favorable trends when compared to its Canadian peers:
Vancouver pales when compared to Megalopolises such as Paris, London or Hong Kong [6], but its Transit supply is much greater than in Portland and comparable to the ones of European metropolises of population size closer to Metro Vancouver, such as Lille or Lyon [7]. Nevertheless, this comes with one caveat: both Lille and Lyon are fed by an important suburban train network which has not been accounted for in the following figure:
The above international comparison is assuming 4 standees per m2 to estimate the vehicle capacity [9]:
|Hong Kong
|146 [10]
|200 [10]
|London [11]
|Paris [11]
|166 [13]
The Occupancy rate
Is the Transit supply good enough or not?
The occupancy rate [14] can be a good proxy to assess the relevance of the supply: the higher the occupancy rate is, the more likely crowding issues will arise. On the other hand, a low occupancy rate could suggest an excess of capacity.
Crowding experienced locally with a low occupancy rate could suggest that the transit supply deployment is not optimal, but some other issues could arise: A directional demand unbalance makes crowding difficult to address without deploying excess capacity on the underused direction.
Possibly a transit world specific: even the busiest systems don't achieve an occupancy rate greater than 30%. In that light, the TransLink system appears to be a heavily used one.
It is worthwhile to note that TransLink estimates the average transit trip length at ~8km [15] when TfL estimates the average bus trip length at 3.5km and the Underground trip length at 8km [16]. Similarly the average bus or tram trip length is 3.3km and the subway trip length 5km in Paris. The reliability of trip length data could be an issue but a consequence of longer trips in Vancouver is that TransLink needs to provide more seat.km per trip than London or Paris.
(*) This article has been first published in the December 2014 newsletter from Transport Action BC.
[1] Mayors' council on regional transportation Regional Transportation Investments: a Vision for Metro Vancouver – June 12,2014
[2] Difference between the GTFS data (revenue hr) and the Translink 2013 Annual report (Total service hr). see more in this post
[3] Supply is computed on the first Friday following Labour Day (usually one of the busiest Transit days of the year) of each year from GTFS schedule and fleet deployment observations. The vehicles' capacity used are the maximum as displayed on the concerned vehicles. see more in this post
[4] Transportation Association of Canada. Urban Transportation Indicators, Fourth Survey. Ottawa :2010
[5] Numbers otherwise differ, possibly due to different assumptions, such as on the vehicles' capacity. The urban areas, used by the association [4], don't match either the area covered by the transport agencies, so numbers are subject to caution.
[6] Numbers for Paris come from the Observatoire de la mobilité en Ile-de-France, London numbers from TfL [16] and Hong-Kong numbers from the 2013 MTR Annual report.
[7] Number for Portland, including population, comes from the APTA, and includes the scheduled services provided by Trimet, C-Tran, SMART and Portland city.
[8] Numbers from the Certu ("Annuaire statistique Transports Collectifs Urbains", 2014) with bus capacity normalized at 83.
[9] Agencies could have different standards (e.g. 6 persons per sqm in Hong Kong). The vehicle capacity is per bus or consist (train) unless otherwise specified. When different vehicle types are used, a vehicle revenue.km weighted average is used.
[10] The capacity is per car. Hong Kong Tram capacity is 125, and Hong Kong Airport train capacity is 120 per car.
[11] Vehicle Capacity number from Report on mobility an transport #1 – Institut D'aménagement et d'urbanisme- November 2014".
[12] Weighted average of a DLR train capacity (280) and a Tramlink train (200).
[13] The capacity is per vehicle, the Portland streetcar capacity is 200.
[14] Also called Load factor.
[15] Translink: 2014 Business Plan, Operating and Capital – Budget. New Westminster 2014.
[16] Transport for London. Travel in London: report 7. London 2014.
[17] Shirocca consulting Translink Efficiency review. 2012,
[18] A narrative largely echoed by Lower Mainland translink advocates as illustrated here.
Who is paying the Metro Vancouver CIT?
January 29, 2015
CIT stands for the Congestion Improvement tax submitted to a plebiscite
According to the last Mayors plan iteration, it is now like below:
Tourism share was originally quoted at 10% by the Mayors council, but this number has been proved erroneous. Credibility of other numbers have not been verified.
the CIT is expected to raise $250M/year
Is the CIT tax 0.34c a day or 258$/year per household?
In the Transit plebiscite campaign, people quote 2 different numbers:
- 0.34c a day (that is 124$ a year) if one counts only the direct CIT paid by metro Vancouver households
- $258 if one counts the CIT tax burden per household (direct and indirect)
The last number suggests people will support indirectly the businesses tax burden. Many on the "yes" side seem to argue that is wrong. For example, Brad Cavanagh at canspice.org, wants to believe that the gas price witnessed at the region border (Langley and Abbotsford) is proof of it:
- The total tax rate is 32.17c in Langley (including a 17c Translink tax).
- The total tax rate is 21.17c in Abbotsford (no Translink tax but a higher provincial tax).
The 11c [1] tax difference is fully passed to the consumer ( The Brad Cavanagh's error is to consider the Translink tax as the only difference between Langley and Abbotsford)
Do businesses pay taxes?
As economists know, businesses don't pay taxes, people do. Businesses are an abstraction, people, be either the consumer, the shareholder, or the worker, are the ones paying the businesses' taxes.
If that was not true, we would have transferred all of our tax burden on the businesses abstraction! In the meantime, studies tend to demonstrate more often than not, the workers support the businesses' taxes burden (in the form of lower wages).
It is possible that the investments allowed by the CIT will allow productivity gains or a greater economic activity, making the real cost per household lower than assessed by the most pessimistic views. In the meantime a $258 CIT cost per household is no more wrong than 0.34c per household.
PS: We plan to write a post "debunking" the various claims done in the plebiscite campaign. As a primer, so far we can see, the CTF has provided mainly valid facts. I don't discuss their significance and they could need to be replaced in a proper context (what Brad Cavanagh did in a previous post), but usually trying to dispute them is a losing proposition.
Metro Vancouver: A look at the Mayors' plan Capital investment
January 26, 2015
In a previous post, we have examined the general financing of the plan, and noticed that half of the Congestion improvement tax could go toward operating the system. In this post we focuse deeper on the Capital plan
Capital cost and Translink contribution to the plan
When looking at the plan, it is important to make a difference between the capital cost of a project with the effective contribution paid by Translink:
If the Millenium line extension (Broadway subway) represents 30% of the capital investment over the first 10 yeras, it is expected to represents only 14% of the Translink financial contribution to the capital plan [1]. 77% of The broadway subway is expected to be financed by senior and municipal contributions.
Congestion Improvement tax allocation
The above represents only the capital cost, so not all the new CIT tax revenues will go toward it, but only the portion not used to fund the Translink expanded service operations. The allocation of the CIT tax to finance the plan will look like it:
the broadway subway end up to be only 10% of the total Translink plan extension cost to the tax payer. At the difference of other Transit investment, it doesn't cost taxpayer money to operate, and could be able to generate revenue [1]. More tax $ will fund the roads network (and that doesn't include the Pattullo bridge) than the broadway subway.
Capital cash flow and project timing
A bit of "reverse accounting" suggests the following [4]:
The CIT generating more revenues in the first 10 years than considered in the original Mayors' plan, the debt in 2024 could be around ~4Billion instead of $6Billion as published in June 2014 [2].
As we have seen before, the transit operating costs are expected to increase at a much higher rate than the revenue sources (taxes + farebox revenues), revenues allocated to service the debt will be depleting over the years. ~2023, Translink will be unable to service its debt, it will be missing ~$50 Million to be able to service the debt interest only.
In fact that was considered in the original plan, expecting ~$390 Million of new revenue by 2026: the current CIT will be actually $50 Million short of it.
At this time, it is unclear how the $50 Million gap will be closed [5][6], but it is fair to say that the plan or at least part of it- that is certainly the Fraser Hwy LRT (Surrey to Langley)- is not financed. Unless the financial forecast is significantly erring on the conservative side:
The Fraser Hwy LRT would only go ahead if a new source of financing is agreed by 2022.
By this time, the technology choice could need to be reviewed, so one should not worry too much on this line [3]
Removing the Fraser Hwy LRT from the plan could not be enough to keep the Translink financial sheet on sound basis by 2024: scale back of some bus operations could be required. Though that a more cautious ramp up of bus services could be preferred, that is a normal and reasonnable risk. Otherwise, significant saving could be found in the Expo line upgrade program as we have suggested before.
As for the previous post on the Mayor's plan financial, one will find my "sandbox" worksheet in Google doc
[1] Ideally one would like to consider the full life cycle cost of a project: the Operating cost of the Broadway subway is expected to be more than recovered by fare revenues, and it will allow saving on bus operations too. It is the only Transit project of the plan able to do so. Other transit projects are expected to have a fare recovery ratio of ~17%, involving reccuring costs for taxpayer. Concentrating on the sole cpaital cost is more often than not, misleading
[2] In 2014, the Translink assumption (Translink 2014 baseplan and outlook), was 6.8% interest rate for long term debt, and 5% for the short term debt. Translink has lately emitted bond at 4.5%: we use this last number accross the board but our number could be too optimistic
[3] It seems a bit silly to commit on a technology for a project not expecting to hit the ground in the next 8 years.
[4] Surrey LRT line 1 and line 2 are considered to have the same price per km. the ful cost of the LRT is $2.5Billions. The 10 years plan finance $1.9 Billions of it, ~$600 Million need to be provided in years 2025 and 2026. cash flow model come from the Surrey raid transit phase 2.
[5] The Mayors' plan implictly suggests a mobility pricing tool to generate additional revenues.
[6] We didn't have accounted an apparently "exceptional" "partnership" funding toward operation ($50M in 2023 and $35M in 2024) which could slightly delay the time when Translink could not generate enough revenue to service its debt.


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General Martin Dempsey is at it again. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is traveling in the Middle East, seemingly making it clear that he doesn't want any part of the war in Syria. As I reported a while back, in a letter to members of Congress Dempsey had earlier warned that all of the options open to the United States in the Syrian civil war are bad ones. At that time, Dempsey drew fire from hawks and from advocates who want more and stronger direct US involvement in the Syrian war.
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ERIC Review: Community College Teaching-Toward Collegiality and Community
Outcalt, Charles L., Community College Review
This review of the literature focuses on community college faculty and their teaching practices. After summarizing faculty demographic changes since the 1970s, the author describes both obstacles to effective teaching and the innovations that faculty use to overcome them. Although isolation, growing reliance on part-timers, pressure to produce research, underprepared students, and inadequate resources for development continue to challenge community college faculty, they have responded by using innovative methods such as learning communities, collaborative learning, and self-directed learning. The review concludes with descriptions of institution-wide efforts that have transformed teaching and produced innovative curricula.
There is no doubt that teaching occupies a hallowed spot in community colleges. "Community college faculty stand out from many of their professorial colleagues not only because of the size and diversity of their sector of higher education, but also because teaching--far more than research or service--is the heart of their profession" (Huber, 1998, p. 12). The Commission on the Future of Community Colleges asserted the following in 1988, "The community college should be the nation's premier teaching institution. Quality instruction should be the hallmark of the movement" (as cited in DeBard, 1995, p. 34). Cohen and Brawer summarize this point aptly: "First and last, the junior college purports to be a teaching institution.... For the junior college instructor, then, the process of instruction is crucial to identity formation" (1972, p. 13).
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