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Is the SkyTrain the limit?
Making public transit work |
Clark Williams-Derry |
15 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Greater Vancouver leads the Northwest in transit ridership, with somewhere between two and three times as many annual bus and train rides per person as Portland and Seattle. So the obvious question: How come? Why does Vancouver do so much better in transit statistics than its southern neighbors?If you're from Seattle, the "obvious" answer might seem to be Vancouver's SkyTrain light rail system, which carries about 66 million passengers each year. Se ... |
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| Topics: green living, placemaking, Portland, public transportation, Seattle, Vancouver (all these topics) |
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