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Whoever keeps bumping this after every game should be shamed of himself.
That's just lame
It's pinned.
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The weather channel is predicting 30-50 cm's for the Fraser Valley by Tuesday.
That's well over a foot, eh?
Shut up... no way.
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Translink changed the schedule of the early 159's for me as well - from 5 am to 9:30 they run 3 minutes earlier now. After missing two busses on the same day I got suspicious and looked it up.
Thanks for the warning, translink.
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So... the sky in Vancouver is green?
Good chap, it is clearly mauve.
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Back to the Vancouverites whining again. Grow a pair.
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I had the nicest bus driver ever on the 99 yesterday evening. Every stop, he would say "Clark drive upcoming, we'll just cross this road and be right there. You can catch the XY bus and the YX bus here!"
Then
"Here we are at clark, don't forget your umbrellas or anything else! Watch your step getting off the bus. Have a good evening."
Then at Commercial, we had to wait through a couple rotations of the light and he went "sorry folks, we'll get there eventually, we'll catch the next light for sure!"
"Watch your step, and don't forget your mittens, gloves, scarves, umbrellas, backpacks, purses, ...." and he went on. ANd he did it all with an accent.
Really made me smile. If you ever happen to read this Sir Bus Driver, thank you!
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Uh... do people actually not shoulder check? Especially when driving beside some tracks?
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A line to downtown Poco would be so excellent. I am going to try to go out to that open house. I'm not sure where they would put the station, but there is a fair amount of business around Shaughnessy and Lougheed, where I believe this hypothetical station will be. However, where will they put it? I don't know of much land there, except where the gas station used to be- and I believe a skyscraper is planned to be built there. The safeway/van city/canadian tire parking lot is HUGE, though, lots of room for a station there.
This would be unreal for Poco. I live in South Poco and it takes me 30-50 minutes to get to Coq Centre via transit, because I have to take 2 busses.
Even if this station were to be promised, how often would trains run? Especially if one were to go to Douglas College and one to Downtown Poco, wouldn't a train be coming/going every 10 minutes?
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West Vancouver approves ferry service
The District of West Vancouver approved a ferry service Monday night that will run from Ambleside Pier to downtown Vancouver.
The 67-seat vessel, operated by Coastal Link Ferries, will take passengers across in 10 minutes. It'll cost $4 for a one-way trip and $7 for a round trip.
The council approved a six-month trial that could begin as early as next month.
"It has been tried in the past but not on this scale," said owner Ihab Shaker. "Other people have tried it with much smaller vessels which were not economical to operate, or way bigger vessels, which again were not the right size at the time. I believe we have the right combination."
Coastal Ferries already runs a passenger ferry from Bowen Island to Vancouver.
In an interview Monday, Councillor Trish Panz told ctvbc.ca that the ferry service made sense.
"Certainly, when we're looking at the Olympics and asking people to consider other modes of transportation," Panz said. "I've personally got a lot of positive feedback from it."
Shaker says the last time West Vancouver had a regular ferry service to downtown Vancouver was 1958 -- 20 years after the construction of the Lions Gate Bridge.
http://www.ctvbc.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/C...ishColumbiaHome
Best of luck to them, I wonder what boat they will use? The one that runs to Vancouver island hauls, it does 8 knots just idling. ... It creates some pretty significant wake. That may be a problem.
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I've always wondered why nobody has done anything with the lot east of GM place.
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because there's no OMG RAIN thread, we gotta piggyback on this one.
This should be change to the OMG ABNORMAL WEATHER thread.
Not the same ring.
Anyway, I saw Env. Can. posted a potential 70mm rainfall near the mountains today. That's ridiculous. It's too bad it's not 5 degrees colder, because the upper mountains would be sweeeeeeeeeeeeet!
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Sorry to correct you, Nitro, as I'm on your side here but Douglas has two campuses, and New West gets at least half of the students. Also, I last heard there were 14k douglas college students. However, DC is just a portion; the skyscraper density south of lafarge will add a couple thousand a day.
Also also, the problem with busses serving westwood plateau is that it's an F'ing rich area and everyone has their own vehicle. Nobody wants to take the bus there. The ONLY time a bus would get heavily utilized is during winter, when the SUV drivers realize they can't go anywhere and do anything with 4 season tires.
Also, very low density.
ALSO, YOU WILL GET ATTACKED BY BEARS EVERY DAY, CAUSE EVERYONE UP THERE IS A PIECE OF TRASH!
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By all means run those buses but if you have to run the buses anways why not run them one more km to the station at the WCE and future everygreen line. Or if you really want a stub just build it later.
Like I said, I bet this solves the budget shortfall right now.
Pinetree community centre and high school are there as well, not to mention several hundred homes immediately west of Hoy Creek.
It's an area more deserving of a station than Sapperton or Lake City Way. Burnaby demanded LCW on the line, but it's very ill used. Pinetree/Douglas College station will get more users within a week than sapperton plus LCW does in a month. Building stubs later is more expensive, you know that. It's been pointed out a ton regarding the M line extension.
Oh, also, I don't know the full technical difficulties involved but building a loop/extra area to turn a skytrain around at Coquitlam Centre would require alot of extra land... I don't know if that's available.
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Meh, build a bridge for the extension when that time comes then, not the end of the world. Skytrain bridge are cheaper than highway bridges anyways.
True, but then you have ridiculously empty tracts of land and low density for km and km past the pitt river bridge. The only legitimate skytrain station out there would be at meadowtown. It's all farmland and warehouses for a few km east of the Pitt River.
That said, it's many, many years away from happening. But even if it did, it'll still take an hour or more to get downtown via skytrain from Maple Ridge.
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Also, ron, I don't recall seeing specs for the pitt river bridge being skytrain compatible. It wasn't a very expensive bridge as bridges go.
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I live in Poco and I have attended Douglas Coquitlam; the area is becoming incredibly dense. It is certainly more dense than any area outside of Surrey, Burnaby, and Vancouver/NV, with over a dozen skyscrapers going up just south of lafarge lake, and a large amount of townhouses popping up just north of David.
I absolutely hate this, but the Burke Mountain development is just a couple KM away and there is absolutely no proper infrastructure there to service the hundreds of homes. It's brutal. The Douglas College stop will at least help with this, though some bus would have to be run up and down coast meridian and in and out of Queenston, Kingston, etc etc etc.
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i don't know about the newer ones, but the old ones always had them.
Seriously? I am pretty positive they are new. The lettering on them is very new with no signs of peeling, which is odd seeing as they are not painted- they are slapped on.
I don't have any pics, Bucky, but they are all 'spirit of... x" Spirit of Tumbler Ridge, Spirit of Cowichan, Spirit of Duncan, etc.
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When did the skytrain cars get names put on them? I think over the past weekend. A waste of money in my opinion.
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For the pin, I imagine they meant to signify the date as one year in advance... right?
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Quite the opposite. I've yet to see any opposition to my arguments. But please, use this time to prove me wrong.
You really can't argue with Translink saying they're going to cut 40% of bus service. They're cutting it because the ridership numbers aren't high enough, which creates a budget shortfall. Not enough people paying to get on the bus. Our transit network is unsustainable.
That's called elective amnesia.
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Yeah, the best U.S. drinking water locations are Des Moines, Austin, and Sioux Falls. Nice try.
http://www.forbes.com/2008/04/14/water-cit...0414health.html
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I'm going by facts. Translink is threatening 40% of bus services to be cut. Something is seriously wrong. You can read between the lines all you want. I go by facts. You have no proof that its a scare tactic.
Yes, judging by your "LA has the best drinking water" ' fact ', we all know your facts are 100% accurate.
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I beg to differ. LA is a shining example of excellent highway design and architecture. One of the driving factors behind it's economic power. It's a great city with a real economy. Not one that relies on cruise ships and tourism.
And those rankings are bogus. All american cities are weighed down in the rankings by "possibilties of terror threats". Without that terror threat crap they would rank a lot higher. LA county is ranked for having the best drinking water in the world.
HAH. Are you kidding me? Give me some proof. That is absolutely bogus, NOWHERE in the southern US is anywhere close to having 'the best drinking water' in the world. If by best drinking water you mean the most heavily polluted, chlorinated, and farthest to travel, then yes.
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Take a look at this.
http://www.mercer.com/referencecontent.htm?idContent=1173105
Vancouver is 4th best to live in globally, and 6th best for infrastructure
LA doesn't even make the list. Either list.
The Official Transit Thread
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Oh no. We are screwed.
In terms of the Canada line.
Better order those new trains...