The trolley bus: not the PSC’s preferred mode of public transit

Pro trolleybus

Commentaire mis en ligne le 12 août 2009
Ugly?

Costs for ecology? For life???

Alex Greene

Commentaire mis en ligne le 6 avril 2009
As an English speaking voter, I am surprised and quite disappointed to see such a poorly written article.

The wording and sentence structure is appalling.

Without sounding arrogant, my son of 15 yrs old could have written a better well formatted article.

I don't care about your ideas, but for crying out-loud learn how to write.

Also, I quickly visited the PSC's English web site. What a mess!


I have read some of your French articles and comments from other websites and it is quite apparent that you have problems with you writing skills in English and French.

Word of advice, if you are really serious about becoming our future Major, you should start by writing correctly.

PARTI au SERVICE du CITOYEN / PARTY at the SERVICE of the CITIZEN

Commentaire mis en ligne le 3 avril 2009
TROLLEYBUS IN OUR CITY

We read and heard of this declaration made by our current administration with great SURPRISE and ASTONISHMENT.

The PARTI au SERVICE du CITOYEN, the only opposition in Laval, has the respect of world environmental standards at heart, and hesitates to believe that bringing back the TROLLEYBUS is the best alternative to our public transit system, which has been the subject of serious criticism from our citizens.

Our current public transit system does not meet the needs of Laval’s residents, and we believe that money should be invested in innovative projects designed to improve service for our citizens. From an aesthetic point of view, let’s not forget that this type of project will entail the suspension of wires criss-crossing in midair.

The commercial arteries mentioned in their project are among the city’s most important thoroughfares, what will be the impact of such a project for the streets’ merchants? Will these merchants be forced to shut down their businesses due to lack of parking spaces for their customers?

The PARTI au SERVICE du CITOYEN, in addition to reviewing our public transit system in its entirety, will SUGGEST to all LAVAL CITIZENS, during the next municipal elections, the creation of a QUICK, EFFICIENT, and QUIET EAST–WEST connection that will, ABOVE ALL, respect the KYOTO protocol. WE will implement a double track TRAMWAY in the centre of autoroute 440, and this EAST-WEST connection will be linked to the current NORTH-SOUTH TRAIN (Blainville), the Deux-Montagnes train passing through Ste-Dorothée as well as the future connection in the East (Mascouche). This type of public transit will propel the city of Laval to the level of other international cities, such as Nice, Dublin, Barcelona and Milan.

The PARTI au SERVICE du CITOYEN is concerned with the capacity to pay of its CITIZENS, but is especially concerned with their actual needs. A TRAMWAY represents 1/5th the cost of a metro, but we will wait for this project’s feasibility results to be available, however we believe that the TROLLEYBUS will be more expensive than the cost of our proposed TRAMWAY. Finally, a TRAMWAY service is and will be AESTHETICALLY MORE PLEASING than a bunch of suspended wires and poles.