<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">To All,<div><br></div><div>Some of you may find this brief exchange useful. Please note also an article oversight & error in this below paragraph -- just above the heading, "EXPERIMENTAL INTENSIFICATION CORRIDOR ON KW'S KING ST", which had left out the word MTO and used the word north instead of south -- it should now should read: "Also, the Region could acquire very inexpensive <b>MTO</b> land <b>south</b> of Sportsworld Dr. between the CP tracks and Hwy 8 for a centrally-located LRT maintenance facility." I may send out a more perfect version tomorrow including corrections of minor punctuation errors.</div><div><br></div><div>Best wishes,</div><div>Robert</div><div><b><br></b></div><div><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Robert Milligan <<a href="mailto:mill@continuum.org">mill@continuum.org</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">June 15, 2011 3:48:31 PM GMT-04:00</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Re: [All] Smart ultra-cost-effective LRT System</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Thanks for your comments *****. Although these possibilities to participate, <b>"helping to refine and improve things"</b> & "<b>will be opportunity for specific ideas and insight"</b>, will never happen with Button and Schmidt at the helm -- except possibly in the usual pretense sense. They will take their proposed routing and run roughshod over roads and rail right-of-way while pouring taxpayer's money unnecessarily down the drain. And if any of my IDEAS seem too advanced to staff, then they need some new staff. I know nobody there is expert on propulsion systems and UW engineering profs are very biased against "competing" energy technologies even within a particular energy area.<br><div><br></div><div>I think that the whole project will be a good lessen on how to tarnish our Region's successful innovative reputation. And this will be Ken's legacy.<br><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Robert</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div><div>On 15-Jun-11, at 12:27 PM, ****** ********* wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Thanks Robert!<div><br></div><div>Some good ideas here though I know some are just too advanced for our leadership. I hope that LRT is approved tonight and we will be able to spend the next 7 months of EA helping to refine and improve things. We need the overall approval first, then there will be opportunity for specific ideas and insight.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>********.</div><div><br><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">----------------------------</font></div> </div> <br><div><div>On 2011-06-15, at 8:46 AM, Robert Milligan wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><div style="font-size: 17px; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 15px; ">To All, </span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 15px; ">(ideally not for Blackberry viewing)</span></b></div><div style="font-size: 17px; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 15px; "><br></span></b></div><div style="font-size: 17px; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 15px; ">This has just been completed. Sorry but my long duration respiratory virus and fatigue that lingered delayed the creation of this article. My wife Lovisa likes it and I am satisfied -- maybe you will find it of interest.</span></b></div><div style="font-size: 17px; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 15px; "><br></span></b></div><div style="font-size: 17px; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 15px; ">Best wishes,</span></b></div><div style="font-size: 17px; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 15px; ">Robert M </span></b></div><div style="font-size: 17px; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 15px; "><br></span></b></div><div style="font-size: 17px; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 15px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 15px; ">PS: pdf version at end</span></b></span></span></b></div><div style="font-size: 17px; "><b><br></b></div><div style="font-size: 17px; "><b><br></b></div><div style="font-size: 17px; "><b>Smart ultra-cost-effective LRT System: A necessity to help develop a more Sustainably Innovative Culture in our </b><b>Region and beyond </b></div></div></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size: 15px; ">"An exciting, fast, safe, comfortable, hi-capacity, even educational, ... LRT train that uses in an upgradeable manner proven sustainably innovative IDEAS -- smart technology, hybrid propulsion systems, solar cells, ... -- to realize both an "order-of-magnitude" lower LRT system costs (very approx. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">$491M</span> in KW & $217M in C) and dramatically increase transit system performance. Not only will this "disruptive" approach model a robust sustainable innovation to the World, it will earn the vote of most citizens." </div></div><div style="font-size: 15px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 15px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 15px; "><div style="font-size: 15px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "><div style="font-size: 15px; "><div style="font-size: 15px; ">Only a light rail transit (LRT) system has the potential to utilize proven sustainably innovative IDEAS to make a very significant improvement in cost-effectiveness. </div><div style="font-size: 15px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 15px; ">Yes, I support many features of the Region's current plan including much of the track routing and station locations, an electric LRT vehicle, strong emphasis on intensification, etc. But like 95% of the candidates in last fall's municipal elections -- and many others -- I do not support the current LRT plan. </div><div style="font-size: 15px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 15px; "><div style="font-size: 15px; ">In 3000+ hours of effort on this rapid transit project -- applying a strong background in business systems analysis, science, technology, etc. -- I have tried to balance all community and organizational interests. I have done this by objectively listening to their major preferences and concerns, then researching practicality and validity. </div><div style="font-size: 15px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 15px; "><div><div style="font-size: 15px; ">These activities were the basis for creatively innovating in track and vehicle design by incorporating proven innovative technologies towards a minimally altered LRT plan. It would be dramatically less expensive yet achieve all of the benefits desired by community & Region -- and then some.</div></div><div><br></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 15px; "><div>Perhaps a sufficient number of the IDEAS presented here would merit your support as a good start towards an improved LRT plan that would give taxpayers a significant return on capital investment -- and greatly reduce operating cost subsidies. </div><div><br></div></div><div style="font-size: 15px; ">If so, then I hope that you will support/advocate for a motion on June 15th (and reconsideration after that) in which Councillors ask the Provincial and Federal governments for six months for us to collaboratively enhance the LRT plan using a Broad-Spectrum Innovation Team composed of not only innovation-supporting staff and consultants but also proven citizen LRT innovators (from here or elsewhere).</div></div></span></div><div style="font-size: 15px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "><br></span></font></div><div style="font-size: 15px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">To help inspire you in this direction, let me ask you, "suppose we could creatively use proven sustainably innovative IDEAS to </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">enhance the current light rail transit plan so that it became much more: affordable, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">road-sparing, disruption-minimizing, technology-leading, time-saving (faster, more direct, just-in-time tech, ...), safety-ensuring, capacity-expansive, comfortable, ... -- and even a means of sustainable innovation (SI) education by example and by on-board interactive e-media?" Let me elaborate.</span></div><div style="font-size: 15px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "><br></span></font></div><div style="font-size: 15px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">With this</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "> SI-type LRT (Sustainable Innovation Express?) as the backbone of our bus-integrated transit system, w</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">e would be </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">modeling a robust sustainable innovation to the World and generally point the way towards a more Sustainably Innovative Culture. </span></div><div style="font-size: 15px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "><br></span></div><div style="font-size: 15px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "><div style="font-size: medium; "><div style="font-size: 15px; "><div style="font-size: 15px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "><div style="font-size: 15px; ">Now I will explore how a slightly altered LRT plan could, by performance and as a role model, significantly contribute to expanding our Region's (and more) innovative potential. I refer to this as the Smart ultra-cost-effective LRT System Plan which is designed to greatly exceed all current expectations for ridership, intensification, etc.</div><div style="font-size: 15px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 15px; "><div style="font-size: 15px; ">But before I do: Thirty eight per cent LRT support is likely closer to reality. This means that we have a decision dilemma with a majority against all 3 options, <b>Only an LRT system has the potential to include sufficient sustainable innovative ideas so as to create the Smart ultra-cost-effective LRT System necessary to earn</b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b> </b></span></b><b>majority voter support -- and World recognition in the process.</b> This could be the basis for requesting both levels of government for more time to collaboratively innovate such an enhanced plan.</div></div></span></div></div></div></span></div></div><div><br></div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "><div style="font-size: 15px; "><br></div></span></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>