Columbo
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I'm kind of glad the underground loop got cancelled. It didn't seem to be well planned out. Hopefully an integrated transit hub can be planned which incorporates the UBC line extension of skytrain and the bus loop.
hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
I love the idea and I'm not laughing at you, just at the hilarity of that idea ever actually coming to fruition.
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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?
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Most people should expect 30-60 minute line-ups for the Canada Line during the Olympics....that's fair warning.
that should look great to tourists
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Way to selectively read. The issue was unexpected. The engineers did not expect the clearance for the new SeaBus to be minimal.
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.
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http://www.vancouversun.com/TransLink+spen...6007/story.html
TransLink to spend $400,000 so new SeaBus can fit in terminalDaaaaaammmnnnn you traaaansliiiiiinkkkk. Learn to plan something properly!
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For the North Americans, the weight of their fat asses will push the seats of the bikes inside of them.
rofl
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They were going [...] but they couldn't find the money to do it.
I'm sensing a theme with Translink these days...
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lol, actually Canada Line staff would have to flip open the front drivers gear and manually position the train back into place aligning with the platform in order for automation to work.
But that likely won't happen as when it does snow, they'll have attendants at the front of the trains monitoring the track conditions just like what they do on SkyTrain.
haha yeah, and we all know skytrain runs soooo smoothly every time it snows
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Well, we'd need at least 50% more trains to do that....and that's 10 more trains....or $60-million.
any plans to order more?
(I'm guessing not...)
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LOL.
Apparently there was a flood at the Broadway-City Hall Station yesterday. Because of road construction on Cambie, the drains were clogged with silt so rainwater was rushing over them down the hill on Cambie. So you had a whole lot of water pooling in front of the station entrance, and it eventually began to flow into the station because the station walkway is sloped...apparently it was like a river of water going into the station.
It's a terrible design.
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...
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BTW, we should all help out with that UBC SkyTrain Facebook group. I've invited all my friends, you should too!
I have!
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^ they are quite real. They also claim subways require 400,000-500,000 passengers a day in order to be feasible and that up to 70% of ridership can be lost from additional transfer, yet they want Evergreen to be LRT.
They also claim that LRT on Broadway can be built for just $10-million per kilometre (the real and more accurate figure is $50-60-million per km).
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!
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The taxpayer can no longer afford TransLink’s grandiose gold-plated rapid transit lines that, in the past, have not attracted the motorist from the car and at best, gives the bus rider a questionably faster, yet more inconvenient journey.
(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...
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I don't oppose it, I earlier said I think it or one or all of the possibles should be done. I just think it's more complicated than simply looking at the odometer...
A gas tax is more complicated that looking at the odometer?? How so? It seems infinitely simpler.
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September 25, 2009
Metro Vancouver board pushes for $450 million a year increase in TransLink funding
By Matthew Burrows
Metro Vancouver directors voted today (September 25) to push for the best-case TransLink funding scenario.
Burnaby councillor Sav Dhaliwal was the only politician who voted against Vancouver mayor and director Gregor Robertson's motion.
Now the board will send the message to TransLink's private board of directors and its mayors' council that it should implement $450 million in annual funding above current levels—the most generous of the three options presented in TransLink's 2010 10-Year Plan to address funding constraints at the regional transportation authority.
The Metro motion originated through its regional planning committee earlier this month. At the latest meeting at Metro headquarters in Burnaby, directors also expressed concerns over the first business-as-usual “base plan” funding scenario proposed, which would lead to “drastic cuts”, according to TransLink.
TransLink CEO Tom Prendergast was at the meeting, and said he wanted to avoid the potential “chaos” the base plan would unleash on transit riders across the region.
Robertson said at the meeting that significant consultation had taken place to get to the Metro consensus. He said it was important that directors “don't fold tents now” and “remain united”. In response,
Corrigan said he understood why people would want to avoid cuts, but said the $450 million had to come from somewhere. The former B.C. Transit chair also cautioned that “there is a limit to what the taxpayer can expect”.
He said that, like with the discussions around the previous 10-year plan in 2004, there is a temptation to be overly optimistic on the accounting side. “We keep on supporting things; then we don't know how to pay for them.”
Surrey councillor and director Linda Hepner moved an amendment, which passed, that—in the event funding is constrained—priority be given to the northeast sector and areas south of the Fraser.
Corrigan added his own amendment, which stated: “Without additional funding any 10-year plan cannot be successfully implemented.” Corrigan's motion passed ahead of the main motion.
So what does this actually mean?
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Haha, I'm taking bets on which will come first, UBC extension ooor....hover cars?
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.
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It really is. Quite annoying that you have to go all the way to Waterfront to catch it. They really need to build the UBC extension so you could catch the Millenium Line to Cambie and change there (I'm assuming any planned extension would connect up to the Canada Line somehow.)
Maybe sometime in the next couple centuries!
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With the amount of traffic and the traffic jams of 3Rd, pedestrians are hardly to blame for stopping all of the traffic. Education perhaps is an issue. Let people know the hand means stop and the white walking dude means you can cross the road.
Only in Richmond....
Jaywalking happens only in Richmond?
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Pictures or it didn't...
Actually...
Try pasting a bare naked photo of yourself on the uPass and see if the drivers notice.
haha they still probably wouldn't. They just look through those things, I think their eyes are accustomed to it. Oh well!
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Actually, Broadway's getting better.
The new plague's at 41 and Dunbar. Wanna know how long it takes for a 41 to get from UBC Loop to Dunbar? 30 minutes.
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.
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Have the geniuses at Translink ever considered the idea of putting a photo on them?
They have a photo on them. No one looks at it.
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I won't believe a thing about the Evergreen Line anymore till I see some concrete pillars in the air...
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I actually have the article right in front of me on my desk.
He is basically looking for ways to generate more revenue for translink and infrastructure.
He basically states that he is frusterated by "....perpetual cycle of underfunding transit and the odd big investment"
Which is a fair enough concern, but tolls should only be added to either BRAND NEW infrastructure and/or theres a VIABLE alternative option, and within the GVRD.
Sea to Sky does not fall into any of those categories.
( I will stop my jurisdiction argument, although it is a valid one about Mr. Mayor, it's not my point.....
)To be honest it almost seems like the way Translink operates financially is first they're given a huge government investment for some major project, then once it's done they have to somehow maintain it with insufficient funding. It's like a big joke or something.
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^ i don't think traffic light priority on Broadway was implemented, but it certainly was planned like you said.
The bus lanes during peak hours only shaved off 3-minutes at the very, very most.
Wow, what are you talking about? Translink planned something but never followed through with it? Surely you jest!
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I've said this before, but who's idea was it to put motion-sensor-activated doors on the new B-lines????!?!?!?!