Columbo

Last time I remember fares increasing was January 2008...

I got to UBC on the B-Line in a record time of 20 minutes today... this Olympic lane thing is great so far!

And why not? I have no problem with rich tourists helping to pay for our transit system. If they can pay thousands of dollars to travel here, get a hotel, and buy tickets to events, they can afford another $5 to support our city's "green" infrastructure.

I've said this before, but who's idea was it to put motion-sensor-activated doors on the new B-lines????!?!?!?!

hahahahahahahahahahahahaha I love the idea and I'm not laughing at you, just at the hilarity of that idea ever actually coming to fruition.

Damn you UBC.... Not that I'm unhappy about this, in fact I hated the underground bus loop plan. But couldn't they have figured this out 5 YEARS AGO?

that should look great to tourists

Exactly. They "did not expect" it. Time to start planning things properly so these "unexpected" things stop happening! No wonder they're in such a financial hole.

http://www.vancouversun.com/TransLink+spen...6007/story.html Daaaaaammmnnnn you traaaansliiiiiinkkkk. Learn to plan something properly!

rofl

I'm sensing a theme with Translink these days...

haha yeah, and we all know skytrain runs soooo smoothly every time it snows

any plans to order more? (I'm guessing not...)

Haha... Well the good news is that rain in Vancouver is a RARE EVENT and we won't see this happen EVERY WEEK! It's sad how the original skytrain, built almost 25 years ago in the exact same city, is so much better designed than the 2009 Canada Line. Hooray for progress...

I have!

Haha LRT on Broadway should really be a non-issue. It doesn't matter how much or how little it costs, you can't ignore the fact that THERE'S NOWHERE TO PUT IT!

(quote from the article) Are these people for real? - "Not attracted motorists from their car"? Have they ever ridden the Skytrain at 8am on a weekday morning?? - "Questionably faster" than the bus???? - "More inconvenient" than the bus ?!?!?!?!?!?!? And since when is "the taxpayer" paying for these things? I'd love it if Translink got some real tax revenues! When someone writes an article like that and puts so little emphasis on factual credibility, it really makes them look like a joke...

A gas tax is more complicated that looking at the odometer?? How so? It seems infinitely simpler.

So what does this actually mean?

Hmm, tough one. I don't think hover cars will ever come, because they seem rather impractical, it takes much more energy to make something float against gravity than to just drive on the road. Then again, anything is possible. On the other hand, for our city to ever do something efficient and practical seems about as unlikely. I'm going to go with the hover cars.

Maybe sometime in the next couple centuries!

Jaywalking happens only in Richmond?

haha they still probably wouldn't. They just look through those things, I think their eyes are accustomed to it. Oh well!

The thing about Broadway is this... the trip itself is ok. Traffic is not a huge problem with the HOV lane, and since the trip is a straight line with few stops, it's altogether pretty efficient. The nightmare is the logistics behind it, be it the 30 minute wait in line from the skytrain, to being unable to board full buses at Cambie, to feeling like a sardine for a good 40 minutes of your life, twice a day, 5 days a week. They're running that bus as often as they run the Skytrain and it still can't provide the level of service needed during peak hours. It's still the best option to get to UBC from anywhere east of Commercial, but that's not saying a lot.

They have a photo on them. No one looks at it.