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B.C. bus driver caught playing Sudoku at the wheel

SURREY, B.C. — Vancouver-area transit authorities are investigating after a driver was recorded doing a Sudoku puzzle at the wheel.

A passenger filmed the incident on his cellphone while riding the 395 bus Monday night in Surrey.

In the grainy video, which was posted on YouTube, the driver can be seen staring at the puzzle while the bus moves through rush hour traffic.

Derek Zabel, spokesman for the Coast Mountain Bus Company, said he could not comment on whether the driver is facing disciplinary action.

http://www.theprovince.com/life/driver+cau...8031/story.html

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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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that should look great to tourists

That's the exact same thing I was thinking. And it'll be even worse considering InTransitBC has overzealous asinine crowd control methods. They only let a few people onto the platform, while the rest are held back from entering the platform causing a long line to form....

Hopefully they'll rip up the contract for 17 days and use all 20 trains instead of the 18 max.

One of the many things Atlanta 1996 is infamous for was inconvenience and poor transportation... who knows but there's a possibility that Vancouver could out-do Atlanta in this field.

- up to 60,000 people at GM Place daily (3 hockey games a day x 19,000 seats)

- 35,000 for nightly victory ceremonies @ BC Place

- 20,000 for the Live Sites

- tens and tens and tens of thousands more from other Olympic activities in Downtown and from tourists moving in and out and around town

- majority of people will obviously still go to work

- schools still open except for catholic schools

- most of VANOC's 50,000 strong labour force will be located in Vancouver, including 25,000 volunteers

- 17,000 security personnel, 5,000 of which are private guards and will most likely use transit to get around

- 12,000 ceremony participants

- additional staff that restaurants and hotels will have

- 10,000 media personnel, some will use transit

- thousands of civic volunteers for City of Vancouver and Richmond

- other jobs, such as 1,000 jobs at the Molson Hockey Place

And even with 16 of the 20 trains running on the Canada Line today, the trains are sardine can packed.

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And even with 16 of the 20 trains running on the Canada Line today, the trains are sardine can packed.

Wait just a minute!??!!?

What about all the naysayers that said it wouldn't get enough ridership??????

Surely they couldn't have been wrong!!!!

HUGE WASTE OF MONEY!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I'm actually considering writing letters to NDP MLA's and Carole James about the Canada Line in hopes that they will grill the Liberals on the lack of vision and capacity built, and to resolve current capacity problems by buying more trains asap. The provincial gov't is one of several entities at fault here, if they are grilled I'm sure the pressure they will feel will be trickled down to the other agencies. But it would be quite weird coming from the NDP, the same party that has been making noise about Canada Line "overruns" and saying how there isn't enough ridership to support it. On opening day, James said that while the Canada Line was nice she would have preferred the Evergreen Line been built first and that the Canada Line should have been built on Arbutus as LRT.

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I'm actually considering writing letters to NDP MLA's and Carole James about the Canada Line in hopes that they will grill the Liberals on the lack of vision and capacity built, and to resolve current capacity problems by buying more trains asap. The provincial gov't is one of several entities at fault here, if they are grilled I'm sure the pressure they will feel will be trickled down to the other agencies. But it would be quite weird coming from the NDP, the same party that has been making noise about Canada Line "overruns" and saying how there isn't enough ridership to support it. On opening day, James said that while the Canada Line was nice she would have preferred the Evergreen Line been built first and that the Canada Line should have been built on Arbutus as LRT.

Well, it's not like she nor her party had any better foresight on it, did they?

If she did fuss about it beforehand while the project was still in its planning and construction phases, then she would have the right to raise a stink about it now.

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Dear Translink,

My bus passed by my stop when I was a block away. No sweat, I thought, there'll be another in 5 minutes. Halfway down the remaining block, a second bus passed my stop. Oh dear, I thought, this cannot end well. I proceeded to wait 12 minutes (there should be two buses that come by in that time) at the stop before a very full bus showed up. Oh well, I thought, at least it's here. I boarded the bus, and as it left the stop, I saw that another bus caught up to us.

Please figure out a way to space the buses properly.

Thanks,

Concerned Noodle

easily solved. A bus driver has to be at a stop at a certain time. If he is early to one, then he waits there until the departure time. That is the way they do it here in Berlin and it works fine. I could use public transit here but choose not to. You can get anywhere in Berlin using public transit. Just brilliant.

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http://www.straight.com/article-265325/cit...cts-future-play

City of Vancouver puts Georgia Viaduct’s future in play

Last summer, New York City opened the first section of a new park that was once an elevated railway. Known as the High Line, this green space on Manhattan’s West Side was hailed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg as an “extraordinary gift” to the city.

Imagine if Vancouver developed its own High Line–style promenades on the Georgia and Dunsmuir viaducts. It’s an idea that has caught the attention of former Vision Vancouver councillor Jim Green amid talk of examining whether the city needs to maintain these structures.

Vision councillor Geoff Meggs has suggested the twin overpasses be torn down, a move that would free up as much as five city blocks of valuable property. Vancouver’s Greenest City Action Team, cochaired by Mayor Gregor Robertson, mentioned “replacing” the Georgia Viaduct in a report released on October 20.

For Green, keeping the viaducts but removing vehicle traffic is a better idea.

“One of the things that we could do is to make bicycle lanes and pedestrian park space up there,” Green told the Georgia Straight. “It [the viaduct] would stay there, and you would have the park up, elevated three storeys.”

There are residential and commercial possibilities as well. “You can have retail opening onto the high park, which is now the viaduct, and then have that also open down [below on] the street,” the former councillor said. “You could really enliven two different areas of Vancouver.”

Determining the viaducts’ future will evidently take some time. What’s certain is that there’s no shortage of ideas on how to deal with these thoroughfares that were originally intended to be part of a freeway, a proposal that was defeated in the 1970s by activists including Green.

According to Barbara Lee, a resident of Prior Street and an active community member, the viaducts send eastbound vehicles into the residential neighbourhood of Strathcona, creating traffic jams.

“I would prefer not tearing it down but rerouting it over the railway lines,” Lee told the Straight by phone. She explained that she’d like to see traffic directed onto Malkin Avenue and then over to Terminal Avenue.

The city owns the property below the viaducts, which forms part of one of the most expensive tracts of land in Vancouver—the Northeast False Creek area. Major players in the city’s real-estate industry, including Concord Pacific, hold land there. Canadian Metropolitan Properties owns the Plaza of Nations site, while the Aquilini Investment Group has GM Place. B.C. Pavilion Corporation, a provincial Crown corporation, operates B.C. Place Stadium.

On Thursday (October 22), city council is scheduled to consider staff recommendations that include bringing high-density developments to this area. A staff report prepared for the council meeting reiterates previous suggestions that 1.8 million square feet of office space and four million square feet of residential space be created.

If this goes ahead, a total of 7,200 new residents would be expected to move into the district, and the availability of parks and open spaces would be an issue. According to the staff report, if the ideal park ratio of 1.1 hectares per 1,000 residents is to be met, eight hectares of new parkland would have to be added to accommodate these new residents.

The city has allowed the property underneath the viaducts to be used for recreational purposes, like skateboarding. Coalition of Progressive Electors councillor David Cadman said the land under the viaducts should not be subject to real-estate deals.

“What I don’t want is to lose some of those amenities that the community has struggled for a long, long time to get,” Cadman told the Straight. “But that said, I don’t know structurally how sound the viaduct is at this point. We’re not having a freeway coming in, so we can look at it and see what might be done.”

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It's possible that the Evergreen Line will be even longer, they are considering adding a 1.2-km stretch from Coquitlam Centre Station to the centre Port Coquitlam.

Port Coquitlam is pushing for an Evergreen Line extension

By Grant Granger - The Tri-City News

Published: October 21, 2009 1:00 AM

A recent addition to the design of the planned Coquitlam Evergreen Line station has raised hopes of an extension to Port Coquitlam and spurred efforts to make that happen in the first phase of construction.

A spur was included in the preliminary design consultation discussion guide put out prior to a series of public meetings. It only surfaced in the last month or so, said PoCo Mayor Greg Moore, and is an encouraging development for the city in its effort to convince B.C. Transportation Minister Shirley Bond to extend the line to PoCo.

"We all know we're at the 11th hour here trying hard to work to bring it to Port Coquitlam," Moore told The Tri-City News, "but I told the minister until there's a shovel in the ground, I'm going to keep doing it."

To extend the line to PoCo wouldn't be that difficult because negotiations are already underway for use of the CP Rail right of way through Port Moody and Coquitlam, Moore said.

"Why not just continue on down the CP right of way 1.2 km to get to downtown Port Coquitlam?" he said.

The city owns land near the Shaughnessy underpass it would be willing to contribute for a station, Moore said, and PoCo's population of 58,000 would help make the line more successful.

"Most of the time, we're two buses away from Coquitlam Town Centre and if that's going to continue to be the case, the [Evergreen Line] ridership just won't be as good," he said.

Although the discussion guide map includes a possible extension further into Port Coquitlam, the city isn't lobbying for a second station for the city.

"Hey, we're pushing our luck just trying to get it to [downtown PoCo]," said Moore.

• The Evergreen Line public meeting in PoCo is set for Nov. 4 from 6 to 9 p.m. at the PoCo Inn and Suites, 1545 Lougheed Hwy.

ggranger@tricitynews.com

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It's possible that the Evergreen Line will be even longer, they are considering adding a 1.2-km stretch from Coquitlam Centre Station to the centre Port Coquitlam.

Port Coquitlam is pushing for an Evergreen Line extension

By Grant Granger - The Tri-City News

Published: October 21, 2009 1:00 AM

A recent addition to the design of the planned Coquitlam Evergreen Line station has raised hopes of an extension to Port Coquitlam and spurred efforts to make that happen in the first phase of construction

A spur was included in the preliminary design consultation discussion guide put out prior to a series of public meetings. It only surfaced in the last month or so, said PoCo Mayor Greg Moore, and is an encouraging development for the city in its effort to convince B.C. Transportation Minister Shirley Bond to extend the line to PoCo.

We all know we're at the 11th hour here trying hard to work to bring it to Port Coquitlam," Moore told The Tri-City News, "but I told the minister until there's a shovel in the ground, I'm going to keep doing it

]To extend the line to PoCo wouldn't be that difficult because negotiations are already underway for use of the CP Rail right of way through Port Moody and Coquitlam, Moore said.

]"Why not just continue on down the CP right of way 1.2 km to get to downtown Port Coquitlam?" he said.

]The city owns land near the Shaughnessy underpass it would be willing to contribute for a station, Moore said, and PoCo's population of 58,000 would help make the line more successful

"Most of the time, we're two buses away from Coquitlam Town Centre and if that's going to continue to be the case, the [Evergreen Line] ridership just won't be as good," he said.

Although the discussion guide map includes a possible extension further into Port Coquitlam, the city isn't lobbying for a second station for the city

"Hey, we're pushing our luck just trying to get it to [downtown PoCo]," said Moore.

• The Evergreen Line public meeting in PoCo is set for Nov. 4 from 6 to 9 p.m. at the PoCo Inn and Suites, 1545 Lougheed Hwy.

ggranger@tricitynews.com

Poco is not my hood, but if you're interested in seeing this extension, or any of the evergreen go and be noisy at the public meeting. It does make a difference.

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^ that is, if they can find the money to build it. It'll probably add around $100-million in construction costs. The current design only has $850-million of the $1.4-billion it needs, and it seems like the provincial gov't will build whatever they can with the money they currently have and build the rest of the line in another phase.

I'd love to go to a meeting, but I live in the other side of the region.

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^ that is, if they can find the money to build it. It'll probably add around $100-million in construction costs. The current design only has $850-million of the $1.4-billion it needs, and it seems like the provincial gov't will build whatever they can with the money they currently have and build the rest of the line in another phase.

I'd love to go to a meeting, but I live in the other side of the region.

This is my point, more people making noise (and I don't mean ranting on a hockey forum...) puts pressure on the system/politicians. I know it doesn't seem like it works, and it's not like money will just appear if you make noise. But it absolutely won't appear if you don't make any noise. Go to the open house, sign in, give your feedback. Follow up with letters to mayor and council and whoever else. Get your friends too. It does work. Trust me ;)

The squeaky wheel most definetly gets the grease in politics.

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This is my point, more people making noise (and I don't mean ranting on a hockey forum...) puts pressure on the system/politicians. I know it doesn't seem like it works, and it's not like money will just appear if you make noise. But it absolutely won't appear if you don't make any noise. Go to the open house, sign in, give your feedback. Follow up with letters to mayor and council and whoever else. Get your friends too. It does work. Trust me ;)

The squeaky wheel most definetly gets the grease in politics.

lol, well i always do feedback/consultation forms, and it's great that they're now offering online forms. I encourage everyone to do the one for Evergreen, i've already done it.

Believe me, i do a bit of online advocating...and Canucks forums doesn't count.

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lol, well i always do feedback/consultation forms, and it's great that they're now offering online forms. I encourage everyone to do the one for Evergreen, i've already done it.

Believe me, i do a bit of online advocating...and Canucks forums doesn't count.

Online feedback is good, but a crowded open house goes a long way. I've found that out the hard way a few times this year :lol:

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^ that is, if they can find the money to build it. It'll probably add around $100-million in construction costs. The current design only has $850-million of the $1.4-billion it needs, and it seems like the provincial gov't will build whatever they can with the money they currently have and build the rest of the line in another phase.

I'd love to go to a meeting, but I live in the other side of the region.

Cant they just build it with the money they have and add on after?

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