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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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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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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 paper (posted 11 December 2011) is:
Traffic Gridlock: A Bad, Mis-Leading Metaphor that Makes for Bad,
Mis-Directed Public Policy
Also see his recent papers:
Presentation on Algoma, with key section on railways
Traffic Gridlock:
The Real Deal or a Pile of Nonsense? (28 July 2011)
Inspiring a Sustainability Action Agenda (9 May 2011)
for the 2nd Annual Sustainable Community Summit.
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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Latest news
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Headlines from the latest Transport Action Hotline,
20 January 2012:
- 1 - Calendar
- 2 - Maintain TTC capacity or increase gridlock
- 3 - Will the government cut Via Rail? Transport Action urges caution
- 4 - New AMT boss should be an elected official
- 5 - Transport Action BC, 2011 in review and other news
- 6 - Halifax looks at a 16-mile commuter rail route
- 7 - Transport 2000 Québec, Cette grille tarifaire est nettement à l'avantage de la classe moyenne
- 8 - Chemin de fer Matapédia-Gaspé, Transport 2000 appuie la communaunté Gaspésienne
- 9 - Tronçon ferroviaire Matapédia-Gaspé: mobilisation pour le chemin de fer
- 10 - Greg Gormick, Freight integration and faster passenger rail service
- 11 - Build high-speed rail now, Edmonton and Fort McMurray highway of death
- 12 - Amtrak is moving forward with an aggressive agenda for 2012
- 13 - Stephen Rees on Jarrett Walker, HumanTransit.org
- 14 - Mitt Romney wants to privatize Amtrak trains
- 15 - Swedish bike superhighway
- 16 - Bonjour à tous lecteurs du TRAQ-Hebdo, (no209)
[Hotline archives]
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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...