Rapid Transit

SlyFox helps local businesses operate to their fullest potential. Unfortunately, we are not confident that London City Council understands just how businesses operate in light of their latest decision to provide financial support for Richmond businesses through construction.

The currently approved BRT plan allowing for a reallocation of road space from cars. But, when BRT advocates speak about the need for it to be a “premium service to attract ridership” they are just hoping people take advantage of increased transit services; it will actually force vehicles off the road leaving the BRT as the…

The city’s “need” for Rapid Transit seems to be based solely on securing Federal funding. The Shift rapid transit project would not exist without federal funding. This much is fact. London’s stake in the project is $129 million, with the rest of the funding being relied on from the Federal Government. What the proponents of…

The Rapid Transit Final Business Case states that each trip we take using the system will include a quarter kilometer of walking. What’s more, the author claims this to be a benefit of the system spun as “a health benefit to the user” to be monetized and recognized at a “societal level” for the value…

The Rapid Transit project was approved using data from a draft report which suggested Fanshawe College was located in West London For those of us worried about the perceived lack of planning for the bus rapid transit system, SlyFox believes the concerns to be well-founded based on the state of the business plan when the…

The Shift Business Case makes a lot of claims monetizing ambiguous benefits – the assumed health benefits, the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, and vehicular safety are all categories. But the most duplicitous category is the “Network-wide Road User Travel Time Savings.” SlyFox Marketing contends the $65.9 million network wide user benefits claimed by the…