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In Korea though if you rode the subway and used your card, then rode the bus within an hour (i think? maybe an hour and a half) your bus fare is at a discounted rate.

Not a discounted rate -- it's a FREE transfer for subway-to-bus. For bus-to-subway, it depends on the type of bus you transfer from, but most of the time it's no more than an additional 200 won (which is like 15 cents).

The time gap thing is 30 minutes, by the way.

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On Monday I'm going to be taking part in an emergency boat evacuation drill on the new Seabus. They're going to be testing the equipment and the procedures for abandoning ship. It should be interesting if very, very cold. From what I understand as long as everything goes smoothly they plan on putting the new boat into service about a week after the test.

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yesterday getting on the expo line at granville and commercial-broadway stations i had my fare checked by uniformed, armed VPD officers. i've taken that line into downtown hundreds of times and previously my fare has only been checked two or three times by skytrain cops, never by VPD and never twice in one day in a situation where they are checking every fair before letting people enter the platform.

why the sudden crackdown? I assume they're just trying to make a show of force before the olympics, but seriously is there nothing better for city police to do than stand in groups of two or three and check bus fairs?

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yesterday getting on the expo line at granville and commercial-broadway stations i had my fare checked by uniformed, armed VPD officers. i've taken that line into downtown hundreds of times and previously my fare has only been checked two or three times by skytrain cops, never by VPD and never twice in one day in a situation where they are checking every fair before letting people enter the platform.

why the sudden crackdown? I assume they're just trying to make a show of force before the olympics, but seriously is there nothing better for city police to do than stand in groups of two or three and check bus fairs?

At $173 a piece, I imagine it would pay for itself.

And who couldn't oppose fare evaders getting nailed out of principle?

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On Monday I'm going to be taking part in an emergency boat evacuation drill on the new Seabus. They're going to be testing the equipment and the procedures for abandoning ship. It should be interesting if very, very cold. From what I understand as long as everything goes smoothly they plan on putting the new boat into service about a week after the test.

I guess you didn't make it.

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yesterday getting on the expo line at granville and commercial-broadway stations i had my fare checked by uniformed, armed VPD officers. i've taken that line into downtown hundreds of times and previously my fare has only been checked two or three times by skytrain cops, never by VPD and never twice in one day in a situation where they are checking every fair before letting people enter the platform.

why the sudden crackdown? I assume they're just trying to make a show of force before the olympics, but seriously is there nothing better for city police to do than stand in groups of two or three and check bus fairs?

I could imagine doing patrol getting boring not doing anything, so they decided to head up to the SkyTrain and start checking fares. I would do that.

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Why is it on the SkyTrain, some platforms have to be in the middle and some on the sides. Find it very inconvenient on the Canada Line that depending on which direction I'm going, I have to go under the SkyTrain and then back up to get to the other side.angry.gif

Why wouldn't they have all the stations with a center platform. I imagine it would be cheaper as well.

What are their reasons for this?

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yesterday getting on the expo line at granville and commercial-broadway stations i had my fare checked by uniformed, armed VPD officers. i've taken that line into downtown hundreds of times and previously my fare has only been checked two or three times by skytrain cops, never by VPD and never twice in one day in a situation where they are checking every fair before letting people enter the platform.

why the sudden crackdown? I assume they're just trying to make a show of force before the olympics, but seriously is there nothing better for city police to do than stand in groups of two or three and check bus fairs?

First of all, these mass police fare checks have been routine for quite some time now.

Secondly, VPD does not do fare checks. Rather, it is the Transit Police...Translink's own police force that patrols transit.

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I could imagine doing patrol getting boring not doing anything, so they decided to head up to the SkyTrain and start checking fares. I would do that.

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Why is it on the SkyTrain, some platforms have to be in the middle and some on the sides. Find it very inconvenient on the Canada Line that depending on which direction I'm going, I have to go under the SkyTrain and then back up to get to the other side.angry.gif

Why wouldn't they have all the stations with a center platform. I imagine it would be cheaper as well.

What are their reasons for this?

It has everything to do with cost. If the underground underpass for side platforms were over the platform, the entire station/tunnel would have to be quite a bit deeper. Same goes for centre platforms.

Canada Line:

CENTRE PLATFORM CONFIGURATION

Level 1: mezzaine/ticketing concourse

Level 2: platform

SIDE PLATFORM CONFIGURATION

Level 1: mezzaine/ticketing concourse and platform

Level 2: small underground overpass to other side of platform

SIDE PLATFORM CONFIGURATION (Broadway-City Hall Station)

Level 1: mezzaine/ticketing concourse and overpass

Level 2: platform

Broadway-City Hall was the only feasible station for that configuration as the slope allowed minimum soil excavation.

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First of all, these mass police fare checks have been routine for quite some time now.

Secondly, VPD does not do fare checks. Rather, it is the Transit Police...Translink's own police force that patrols transit.

I've had my fare checked before by normal police officers standing at the escalator.unsure.gif

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I could imagine doing patrol getting boring not doing anything, so they decided to head up to the SkyTrain and start checking fares. I would do that.

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Why is it on the SkyTrain, some platforms have to be in the middle and some on the sides. Find it very inconvenient on the Canada Line that depending on which direction I'm going, I have to go under the SkyTrain and then back up to get to the other side.angry.gif

Why wouldn't they have all the stations with a center platform. I imagine it would be cheaper as well.

What are their reasons for this?

It's much easier to build a uniform track system and then build stations around it rather than having to devide a single track structure into two so it can split around a platform. The structures that hold the trains are a lot more expensive and an overpass bridge to hold people. All stations typically have mezzanine levels for ticketing and what not anyways.

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First of all, these mass police fare checks have been routine for quite some time now.

Secondly, VPD does not do fare checks. Rather, it is the Transit Police...Translink's own police force that patrols transit.

They were VPD officers, not transit police. And there was a VPD car parked outside the station entrance.

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^ i highly doubt that.

But even then, the VPD and Transit Police have the same powers. The transit police are just like any police officer, only that their focus is on transit...and their jurisdiction is the entire GVRD. The VPD has jurisdiction anywhere within the city.

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They were VPD officers, not transit police. And there was a VPD car parked outside the station entrance.

I've been checked a couple times by normal cops. *Yes, VPD* at Broadway Skytrain station, kinda weird but maybe they were looking for someone?

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^ i highly doubt that.

But even then, the VPD and Transit Police have the same powers. The transit police are just like any police officer, only that their focus is on transit...and their jurisdiction is the entire GVRD. The VPD has jurisdiction anywhere within the city.

well, i'm a fairly observant guy and I posted in this thread in the first place because it was unusual to see VPD supervising the skytrain platform at all, let alone checking fares at the top of the stairs. maybe i was wrong but i doubt it. do transit police carry tasers along with lethal weaponry? (not to say that tasers aren't lethal, which is what all law enforcement wants people to believe but is in fact a load of sh**).

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well, i'm a fairly observant guy and I posted in this thread in the first place because it was unusual to see VPD supervising the skytrain platform at all, let alone checking fares at the top of the stairs. maybe i was wrong but i doubt it. do transit police carry tasers along with lethal weaponry? (not to say that tasers aren't lethal, which is what all law enforcement wants people to believe but is in fact a load of sh**).

They have guns, so why not tasers?unsure.gif

I must say it's awfully hard to find Transit Police around. You always see the green jacket Canada Line people, but I don't think I've see Transit Police on the Canada Line once. Though I am not a regular rider.

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