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Welcome to Transport Action Canada
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Transport 2000 Canada, the nation's leading citizen transportation advocacy
group, is now Transport Action Canada. The name may be new, but
our mission remains the same since our founding in 1976: to seek sound
transportation policies, practices and services which improve the quality
of life for all Canadians.
Please update your contact lists with our
new name and new website address: www.transport-action.ca.
Also, please note our updated contact information.
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2013 Annual General Meeting - Montreal
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You are invited to the Annual General Meeting of Transport Action Canada.
The meeting will be held at the École de Technologie
supérieure (ETS), Montréal, Sunday 28 April,
starting at 1 pm. The address of the ETS is 1100 Notre Dame Street W.,
Montréal. This is three blocks south of Bonaventure Métro
station. The featured (bilingual) speaker will be Mr. Dominique Lemay of
the Société de Transport de Montréal who will
present Azure, the new métro train for Montréal.
For further information email
info@transport-action.ca
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From our Distinguished Research Fellow
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Dr. Barry Wellar is Transport Action Canada's Distinguished Research Fellow.
He has provided numerous papers and presentations on transport-related
topics, especially with a geographical viewpoint.
His latest papers (posted April 2013) is:
Best
Practices Framework Needed for Sustainable Transit in Ottawa
(originally published October 2006)
Also see his other recent papers:
ONR-ONTC Research
Task Force: Reports in Progress
(28 January 2013)
Transportation Question Begs
for an Answer: What's Behind the Nonsense about Traffic Gridlock in Canada?
(11 January 2013)
What's Behind the
Nonsense About Traffic Gridlock in Canada?
(December 2012)
Two Questions that
"Test" Passenger Rail Service Decisions Anywhere in Canada
(from the National Dream Renewed Town Hall Meeting,
Sault Ste Marie, November 2012)
Tracking the Motives Behind
the Phony War on "Traffic Gridlock" (25 October 2012)
Follow this link to see a full
list of his papers.
Dr. Wellar is also the director of
Transportation Day
of Geography Awareness Week, which demonstrates the many connections
between geography and transportation.
Learn more about Dr. Wellar and his
publications...
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Are Trains For Canadians?
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There are suggestions that Canada's national passenger train system could be
replaced by privately operated cruise trains. But cruise trains are not the
same as public passenger trains. While the private sector can be a valuable
partner in enhancing our national passenger rail system, we must beware of
any "fire sale" that would skim the most profitable business off to private
corporations and leave Canadians without affordable, year-round train
service.
Read the
full brochure on the situation here,
contact your Members of Parliament with your concerns, and join Transport
Action to help us fight for sustainable, equitable and convenient
public transportation for Canadians.
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No Little Plan: Electrifying GO Transit
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TRANSPORT ACTION CANADA and the CLEAN TRAIN COALITION have jointly released a
rail electrification report for the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA).
The report, entitled No Little Plan: Electrifying GO Transit, is
written by Greg Gormick, a leading rail transportation and transit consultant
and journalist. The report was jointly funded by the John McCullum fund of
Transport Action Canada, and by the Canadian Auto Workers. It was
commissioned to encourage the Government of Ontario to commit fully and
promptly to a regional electric rail plan.
See the full press
release (16 May 2011).
PDF versions of No Little Plan are available as follows - some of
these files are large, please review the options and file sizes
available before starting to download:
Complete report, high-resolution (LARGE FILE, 38.7 MB, PDF)
High-resolution report, as a 4-part download (when combined, will
represent the complete report):
Part1 (9,6 MB, PDF)
Part2 (11.6 MB, PDF)
Part3 (11.3 MB, PDF)
Part4 (11.2 MB, PDF)
Low-resolution version:
Complete report (Low-resolution, 7.7MB, PDF)
Executive Summary:
Executive Summary only (3.0 MB, PDF)
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Latest news
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Headlines from the latest Transport Action Hotline,
26 July 2012:
- 1 - Harold Nicholson, National Dream Renewed
- 2 - More stories
- 3 - Calendar
[Hotline archives]
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Introducing: the National Dream Renewed campaign
Mission: Building support for Via Rail Canada and passenger rail service
(including the Ontario Northland Railway).
To donate to this campaign:
Learn more...
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Transport Action Canada is a non-profit organization whose primary purpose is
research, public education and consumer advocacy. It promotes
environmentally-sound transportation solutions and gets actively involved in a
wide range of issues such as: public transportation, safety, accessibility,
energy efficiency, protection of the environment, intermodal cooperation and
government regulation.
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Keep Transport Action Canada moving...