Editor:
Re: "Trolley bus test-drive a hit in Aldergrove"
This gets the general idea in the air, although Vancouver Trolley Company has been running this product for years in the tourist industry. Also Hawaii and San Francisco run similar cars. They are an industry proven vehicle, and with the proper adaptation can be put on rails with dual bogies.
Sometimes the dual system is acceptable where low rail speed and low traffic allows. That fits the Inturban line description between Langley (Freeway Bridge) and Abbotsford which has passed the plan in 2008 to serve its city.
With the Liberals' plan of public and private initiatives it fits both public and political wills.
This will bring health costs down because there is no question that buses and streetcars have a unbeatable safety record. With a growing south Fraser Valley concourse, congestion will continue to run against the grain and train until we can connect that message with motorists.
If this is the seed then lets grow a golf course,and improve the fairways and play the game not with golf carts, but trains and trolleys.
Bryan Vogler, New Westminster
(Bryan Vogler is a founder, Lower Mainland Commuter Rail Consortium)