inane Posted September 5, 2012 Share Posted September 5, 2012 Shout at the moon? Nope. Have a rational conversation with the mayor and explain why the business case for translink will always be to tax our community while not providing any hope of service improvements? You bet! Give him some excellent ideas of what to let the mayor of delta know about how the Port Mann bridge is going to gridlock his community? Perhaps if he is interested. There's no reason to keep contributing to a system that only wants to apply sticks in the form of taxes to alter our behaviour but refuses to provide carrots in the form of alternatives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aGENT Posted September 5, 2012 Share Posted September 5, 2012 If a link to regular meetings is so apparent, give me the link. Sorry, not interested in playing 'I'm saying something but you have to go prove my point for me'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronthecivil Posted September 5, 2012 Share Posted September 5, 2012 Hey, I agree, the alternatives are lacking. I support transit in your area. I just don't think pitching a fit and threatening to leave the region is going to get you anywhere... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inane Posted September 5, 2012 Share Posted September 5, 2012 I already posted a google search with "About 2,170,000 results (0.37 seconds)" for you. Perhaps you should change your username to "Obtuse"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inane Posted September 5, 2012 Share Posted September 5, 2012 It's not a threat I dont' think that any amount of whining, reasoning, shouting, threatening, pleading, begging, extolling, or any other form of logic, threat, or manipulation will ever result in translink doing any sort of meaningful transit expansion south of the fraser. There's always going to be a better business case north of the river and there will always be more drivers to punish south of the river under our current arrangement. That's why the southern municipalities should just leave translink. If we have to leave the GVRD as a whole to do so so be it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverpig Posted September 5, 2012 Share Posted September 5, 2012 Or right from your article something I already looked up in anticipation only to be disapointed... Oh boy! The supplemental milk run bus to the milk run bus now comes every 20 minutes in the morning instead of on the half hour! As it turns out I can get a ride to sktryain in the morning but even that does me no good since I then have a milk run bus ride back south that takes well over an hour though it does have some confusing additional milk run buses tossed in. How about cancel the additional buses or at least consider running the EXPRESS!!!!!!!! And while were at it do it every ten mins at least during both rush hours!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aGENT Posted September 5, 2012 Share Posted September 5, 2012 I'm sure you could find something in the first 100 or so Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronthecivil Posted September 5, 2012 Share Posted September 5, 2012 I look forward to reminding you of this when they run transit through Surrey/Langley/etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronthecivil Posted September 5, 2012 Share Posted September 5, 2012 You don't put an express bus through this. Zero freaking density for several km of road. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aGENT Posted September 5, 2012 Share Posted September 5, 2012 No, you just don't STOP it there. There's all kinds of density on either side of that belt of ALR. Should we not run express buses to UBC because it runs through the extremely non dense Pacific Spirit Park? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inane Posted September 6, 2012 Share Posted September 6, 2012 I'm sure you could find something in the first 100 or so Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bossy Posted September 6, 2012 Author Share Posted September 6, 2012 All three bridges across the Fraser are stupidly congested. The transit in the Valley is literally just the skytrain in Surrey with 4 stations. North of the Valley is nothing but old, ugly houses with small lots that look like they're in 3rd world countries or overpriced condo's. But no, we need to build the evergreen line so we can have an undersused money hole. Sickening, I'm moving to Toronto. My cousin will easily get me a high paying job, this city is dying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pasific Coluseum Posted September 6, 2012 Share Posted September 6, 2012 Sickening, I'm moving to Toronto. My cousin will easily get me a high paying job, this city is dying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SukhKular Posted September 6, 2012 Share Posted September 6, 2012 Offensive quote removed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inane Posted September 6, 2012 Share Posted September 6, 2012 I understand your frustration, but that's a little much. TransLink has shown through their actions that SOTF is not a priority. It's not a about white people it's about population. But wait... Surrey has a population of 470,000 and Burnaby has 225,000. If Burnaby has 4 SkyTrain stations, shouldn't Surrey have 8? Someone will say everyone in Surrey drives. Yes... they do. Because taking bus and skytrain added 2 hours to their commute. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hockeyfan87 Posted September 6, 2012 Share Posted September 6, 2012 Inane is right here. It is about density. The population in Surrey is spread out and is growing quickly. Two reasons why there aren't more Sky Train stations in the municipality. Also I find the previous comment about white versus visible minority as a reason why Surrey doesn't have more Sky Train stations as dangerously ignorant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SukhKular Posted September 6, 2012 Share Posted September 6, 2012 Inane is right here. It is about density. The population in Surrey is spread out and is growing quickly. Two reasons why there aren't more Sky Train stations in the municipality. Also I find the previous comment about white versus visible minority as a reason why Surrey doesn't have more Sky Train stations as dangerously ignorant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hockeyfan87 Posted September 6, 2012 Share Posted September 6, 2012 Agreed. But we can all agree I think that either Surrey needs more SkyTrain stops, or the stops need to be spread out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inane Posted September 6, 2012 Share Posted September 6, 2012 I've lived in Surrey for most of my life and the only two places that would seem logical to extend the Skytrain in Surrey would be to the Guildford Mall area and the Newton core near the wave pool and transit hub. Beyond those two places I don't see any other places right now where it would be needed. To accomplish that would, I assume, costs billions of dollars in terms of the government purchasing land, demolition, and construction. A huge headache when instead they can do nothing and force people in Surrey who want to use the Skytrain to get themselves to the two Whalley stations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opmac Posted September 6, 2012 Share Posted September 6, 2012 Inane is right here. It is about density. The population in Surrey is spread out and is growing quickly. Two reasons why there aren't more Sky Train stations in the municipality. Also I find the previous comment about white versus visible minority as a reason why Surrey doesn't have more Sky Train stations as dangerously ignorant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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