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Time to get off your wishy-washy position and take a stand you are either for Gateway and thus against real transit improvements in the near future or you are for transit and against Gateway. At least these people have the courage to take a strong stan
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You must be colour blind, for it looks as if you only see things in Black and White!
The 200KM network they talk about would simply become an over glorified bus that would likely run along the streets (it would be more of a tram). In my opinion such systems should be funded by the cities themselves (with some help from upper governments and translink). These little at grade no ROW trams are only good for short distant travels while a system like skytrain is used for connecting major centers together (such as Metrotown to Downtown). What the Feds and Province needs to fund in the Valley is a JR style train, which means it is a double tracked electric railway that runs on its own rail bed (never on the road) and has stations in all the major town centers. Such a train could run every 15 to 30 minutes and then the cities themselves can fund little tram systems to extend from the primary stations. This is what these groups should be trying to work towards, and yes this sytem would cost a lot more money but it is a tried tested and true system and would be capable of handling future population growth. This 200km for 3B LRT/Tram system is a joke. Rail/Transportation systems need layers, they need back bones and arteries, not simply the worlds slowest non-thought out tram system.
Racc please go to Europe or Japan first before you post again and look at all of their freeway systems, mega bridges, tunnels, subways, elevated metros, heavy rail systems and high speed trains they have in place, and then you will see why their tram/LRT systems actually work (often the trams are the last piece of the puzzle to worry about, only downtown Vancouver and maybe the North Shore are the only areas truly ready for a tram system.