masutheakita Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 This is what BC Transit needs! http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081130/ap_on_...way_delay_notes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuckyHermit Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 What TransLink should really do is reduce the payroll for the top bosses... The Province had an article about that a week or so ago, and their salaries are just outrageously high. Something like $300,000. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nitronuts Posted December 1, 2008 Author Share Posted December 1, 2008 Exclusive pictures of the Canada Line station platforms and concourses: BROADWAY-CITY HALL STATION ..........continued, more pics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nitronuts Posted December 1, 2008 Author Share Posted December 1, 2008 KING EDWARD STATION Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuckyHermit Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 Hey nitronuts, I got a question. You know on Sundays and Holidays, an adult monthly farecard can be used for two adults and four children. Does it have to be family or can I pick random people off the street and offer them a free ride? I always wanted to try. That's something we Chinese people would do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Common sense Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 This is what BC Transit needs! http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081130/ap_on_...way_delay_notes Imagine the amount of notes professors would get from their students. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeGillis58 Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 This is what BC Transit needs! http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081130/ap_on_...way_delay_notes BC Transit no longer exist. Its Translink now. Different bus company. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeGillis58 Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 KING EDWARD STATION Do these underground stations provide enough air conditioning? Will it get too hot or too cold? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nitronuts Posted December 1, 2008 Author Share Posted December 1, 2008 Do these underground stations provide enough air conditioning? Will it get too hot or too cold? There's no air conditioning, we're not in the tropics. It'll be just like the downtown underground Expo Line stations. But with the Canada Line, tunnel ventilation fans are located right at the stations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trek Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 looks like they're keeping their word having those stations as open as possible. Hopefully it discourages graffiti. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom_1 Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 Rollercoasters or roads? that road is way too narrow for a major artery. The width can't be much bigger then the road on the pattulo bridge; plus the bridge onramp on the langley side looks like a roller coaster which will probably cause the common accident on that side of the span. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeGillis58 Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 New York City bus driver stabbed to death in Brooklyn BY PETE DONOHUE, ALISON GENDAR and BILL HUTCHINSON DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS Updated Monday, December 1st 2008, 4:13 PM New York City bus driver stabbed to death in Brooklyn BY PETE DONOHUE, ALISON GENDAR and BILL HUTCHINSON DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS Updated Monday, December 1st 2008, 4:13 PM Egan-Chin/News Scene where a bus driver was stabbed by a passenger in Brooklyn, reportedly sparked by an argument over a transfer. A city bus driver was stabbed to death in front of terrified passengers Monday as he tangled with a fare-beater on his Brooklyn route, cops said. The driver, Edwin Thomas, 46, a divorced father of two teenagers, was punched in the head and stabbed in the chest and stomach during the lunchtime horror in Bedford-Stuyvesant, police said. Thomas, who switched from driving armored trucks to buses because he thought it was safer, became the first city bus operator killed in the line of duty in nearly 30 years. The killer bolted the bloodshed just after noon on the B46 bus, notorious for being the worst in the city for fare evasions. He remained on the loose last night with a $36,000 bounty on his head. The first cops on the scene put Thomas in their squad car and rushed him to Woodhull Hospital, where he died in the emergency room. "An attack like this is so shocking in part because it has become so rare in our city," said Mayor Bloomberg, who joined Gov. Paterson in expressing their condolences to Thomas' grieving family. Witnesses told police the killer, described as wild-eyed and in his early 20s, boarded the bus, swiping his invalid MetroCard several times in vain. Thomas allowed his killer on board anyway, witnesses said. The generous gesture cost Thomas his life. Between stops, the suspect pestered Thomas for a fare transfer slip, witnesses said. "You didn't even pay. Why should I give you a transfer?" Thomas tried to reason with the passenger. Enraged, the suspect punched the 5-foot-6 Thomas in the head, witnesses said. Thomas pulled over at Malcolm X Blvd. and Gates Ave. and the attacker jumped off the bus, but then forced his way back on before the doors fully closed. A 66-year-old passenger who regularly rode Thomas' bus said the killer then pulled a knife and plunged it into the driver's chest. "He did not want to pay when he came on the bus," the passenger, who didn't want her name used, said of the suspect. "He said, 'Give me a ride' and the bus driver did not want to. "[The suspect] kept asking for a transfer," she said, still shaking in the aftermath of the slaying. "Then, he just stabbed him." Police said a witness followed the cold-blooded culprit for several blocks but lost track of him. 'A nice driver' Watching cops fan out through the neighborhood hunting for the suspect, the passenger shook her head in disbelief, staring at the blue and white bus ringed in yellow crime-scene tape. "He was a nice driver," she said of Thomas, an employee of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority for seven years. "I rode the bus with him several times. He was killed for no reason at all." http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2...ed_to_deat.html Translink bus drivers might want to think twice before giving a free ride. If this could happen in New York, it can happen in Vancouver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Common sense Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 ^^^ damn, that's freaky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hockeyislife4 Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 ^ ^ ^ No kidding. Could happen one day in Vancouver... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Columbo Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 Translink bus drivers might want to think twice before giving a free ride. If this could happen in New York, it can happen in Vancouver. By the sounds of the story, if he hadn't given him a free ride he would have been stabbed a lot sooner... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buggernut Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 Translink bus drivers might want to think twice before giving a free ride. If this could happen in New York, it can happen in Vancouver. "Fare Paid Zone" Anyways, I'm surprised that story is even news in New York or any other big American city. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuckyHermit Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 "Fare Paid Zone" Anyways, I'm surprised that story is even news in New York or any other big American city. People watch the news for violence and death. Sad, but true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trek Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 imo we should adopt something like London's payment system. Everyone boards the bus and taps a rfid card to a reader to pay for the fare, while the driver is behind plexiglass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oryx Posted December 3, 2008 Share Posted December 3, 2008 (edited) Just recently, I noticed a greater amount of my bus drives talking on CELL PHONES. before, I NEVER saw this at all. What's the deal?? I thought it was illegal to talk and drive at the same time.. not to mention my driver, today, MISSED a stop because he was talking on his phone (in some foreign language) - and this was an express bus too, where missing a stop can mean the difference between 1 block or 10 blocks. Edited December 3, 2008 by Elly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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