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Or even better than that, buy more trains! Cost benefit ratio = distustingly good for that option. It would probably GENERATE revenue.

They need an interim solution in time for the Olympics. I doubt those trains can be ordered and delivered on time.

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Solution: 4 hour waits at skytrain stations.

I came back from the Toronto game at GM Place using the Canada Line. The lineup for the TWO ticketmachines was crazy long at Vancouver City Centre... Thank your supreme deity that I had a upass...

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I came back from the Toronto game at GM Place using the Canada Line. The lineup for the TWO ticketmachines was crazy long at Vancouver City Centre... Thank your supreme deity that I had a upass...

That's why you buy your return ticket before the game at stadium station.

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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.

You're asking UBC to work together internally on this matter.

We'll see hovercrafts first before we see this underground mess come to 'fruition.'

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ahhh UBC planners.

They're probably thinking of putting more private condo developments at the underground bus loop.

Underground bus loop = no revenue.

Condos right in the middle of campus = BILLIONS.

Screw that. There's already condo plans right around the proposed loop. They would go right above the shopping complex that is next to the loop, on the south side of U-Blvd.

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Now I remember my UBC days when, with every passing year, I lost more and more faith in the campus' planners.

SFU looks like a world benchmark in campus planning by comparison.

HAH. Say that in January when we have to constantly wonder if they are going to close campus because buses can't get up the mountain :P

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nitronuts, is that one of those trains we are going to see during the Winter Olympic Games?

(from Granville Island to Olympic Village station)

Nope, ours look like this:

STIB-MIVB_Tram_4018_at_Heysel.jpg

They are the Bombardier Flexity Outlook; the two are being borrowed from Belgium's Metro for the duration of the Olympics. They are also the trams selected by Toronto to replace their fleet of streetcars as well.

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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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hahahahahahahahahahahahaha

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

Ditto.

I mean, when I was entering first-year, even I raised an eyebrow at it.

And we're talking about a clueless first-year here. Yet, the professionally hired planners couldn't figure that out.

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They are the Bombardier Flexity Outlook; the two are being borrowed from Belgium's Metro for the duration of the Olympics. They are also the trams selected by Toronto to replace their fleet of streetcars as well.

You mean Toronto's getting rid of their historical red streetcars?

I hope they send one to San Francisco to be immortalized on their F-Line. (Somehow, SF has found a way to capitalize on the antiquities that every other city chooses to get rid of.)

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You mean Toronto's getting rid of their historical red streetcars?

I hope they send one to San Francisco to be immortalized on their F-Line. (Somehow, SF has found a way to capitalize on the antiquities that every other city chooses to get rid of.)

Well, they only use the classic cable cars on a few mainly tourist (though regulars do ride them where it makes sense) aimed lines. Most of SF transit is done my buses and their muni metro system. Which I might add are all extremely packed on not very fast.

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Now I remember my UBC days when, with every passing year, I lost more and more faith in the campus' planners.

SFU looks like a world benchmark in campus planning by comparison.

Well look at who steers the whole ship. The President at the time was Martha "I tripled my salary but still don't spend money on a decent haircut" Piper who wanted to turn all of UBC into a private research facility and a Board of Governers that is mainly made up of real estate developers and bean counters. It is a joke and a half who they let rubber stamp ideas.

BoG says they want this, the campus planning department better do it or someone is getting fired. No matter how stupid the idea.

Here is another good reason to vote NDP. The Liberal government appoints BoG members. So look who is all there...their business buddies. Anyone here go to UBC-O? Are you happy being Point Grey's dumping grounds? This trend may have been squashed with the new President coming in...but the plan was that only money making faculties and departments would exist at the Point Grey campus. Things like Arts would be shipped off to Kelowna leaving all the money making scientific research at Point Grey as a beacon of greatness. So guess who is appointed to the board just before this is about to happen? Brad Bennett....gee, go figure. Kelowna area realestate big shot and out spoken Liberal supporter. He's not out to just make profit for himself is he? He has the good of the university at heart doesn't he?

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