Dear Editor:

. With the current debate on railed
transit’ for the Greater Vancouver
area, there seems to be some confu-
sion as to what Light Rail Transit
(LRT) is.

This is not surprising since our
present SkyTrain, a proprietary.

Automated Light Metro (Jane’s-

Urban Transportation Systems defi-

nition) system, was built for politi- ”

cal reasons rather than for practical
transportation.

After 15 years of hype and
hoopla for SkyTrain and a concerted
campaign of anti-LRT propaganda,
the vast majority of the population

- has been left ignorant of the LRT. :
| ‘To help clarify what: LRT is,a
“definition given by the: Light Rail

_., Transit Association in their publica-
tion Light Rail Transit Today is use- -

ful.

a “Light Rail Transit is a mode that
.;¢an deal economically with traffic
“flows of between 2,000 and 20,000

Pushing
for death
penalty |

Dear Editor: ..
“LT would. like to congratulate

Doug Collins on his Sept. 3 article .

: “Criminal Thinking.”

I think: these killers should pay

for their crimes, and a few years in.

‘prison doesn't seem enough punish- :
: ~ ment. « vi _
“These killers are . whining about: ”

: their rights,,, but..what* about the
rights of their victims? They have a

right to live. In my opinion if you

“take a, life, you ‘should have your
“rights taken away..

What kind- of world. are wes:

oe bringing children up in? It is wrong

to kill; but if you do, you get a free
education and a chance to be set: .

. free in half the time.sentenced.

Count me in on.the vote for cap-"
ital punishment because something
“has to be done. :

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passengers per hour, per direction,
thus. effectively. bridging the’ gap
between the maximum flow that can
be dealt with using buses and the
minimum that justifies a metro.
“Its characteristics are steel
wheel vehicles, electrically powered
from ‘an’ overhead. wire system,

- operating on a variety of right of

way.

= “By comparison with a conven- :

tional railway LRT is associated
with shorter journeys; wore fre-
quent stops. - less demanding con-

struction parameters and lighter.

vehicles... By comparison with the
bus, LRT carries heavier loads more
efficiently, quickly and reliably with
a substantial ‘reduction | An _ Staffing
levels.

“LRT recuires “more capital out-
lay than for‘a bus system, but less

, than fora conventional rail’ system.

Bring i in your old computer l .

“There are some 350 towns in
which systems exhibiting LRT char-
acteristics are in operation today.
Most of these systems ure actively
modernizing both rolling stock and
track alignments, but there is an
increasing number of. locations
where new LRT systems ure being’
planned or built, long after trudition-
al tramways have been abandoned.

“It is important to remember this
when various unconventional transit ’
modes are being advocated:

“Unlike the more exotic of these,
LRT indisputably works. It has over
a century of development behind it,
yet there is ample scope for further
development.”

D. Malcolm Johnston, chairman
The Light Rail for Vancouver
Committee

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