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Post by Blue Bus Fan on Feb 1, 2024 15:16:53 GMT -8
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Post by Blue Bus Fan on Feb 13, 2024 11:47:48 GMT -8
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Post by Blue Bus Fan on May 1, 2024 9:45:57 GMT -8
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Post by Blue Bus Fan on May 28, 2024 19:57:26 GMT -8
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Post by Blue Bus Fan on May 31, 2024 17:42:27 GMT -8
West Vancouver Blue Bus, operates routes in West Vancouver and Community Shuttles routes out of Phibbs Exchange on behalf of TransLink, has taken delivery of 4 ARBOC Freedoms for use routes on 214, 215, 227, 251, 252, 256 and 262. I am posting this photos because the first few days of service for this bus.  24504 by Blue Bus Fan, on Flickr |
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Post by Blue Bus Fan on Jun 9, 2024 21:05:28 GMT -8
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Post by Blue Bus Fan on Jun 27, 2024 21:38:54 GMT -8
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Post by Blue Bus Fan on Jul 25, 2024 11:53:13 GMT -8
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Neil
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Post by Neil on Jul 27, 2024 21:32:54 GMT -8
I don't think Translink is being alarmist, or overestimating the financial danger our transit system faces. Public transit systems are incredibly expensive, and you have a substantial portion of the public that views a lot of government expenditure with a jaundiced eye. A good public transit network is essential to getting people to work and elsewhere, and it's also essential in preventing paving over an ever increasing portion of our land for roadways for private autos. At the same time, I see a large number of bus routes in my area that carry relatively few people outside of the peak hours, if even then. How far do we go to serve areas where most people are set on using their cars? This is an existential question for how we live as an urban society. It's a tough one. I hope that resources can be found to avoid the cuts that Translink has identified as necessary to keep them going, with present funding. |
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Post by Blue Bus Fan on Jul 30, 2024 12:26:30 GMT -8
I don't think Translink is being alarmist, or overestimating the financial danger our transit system faces. Public transit systems are incredibly expensive, and you have a substantial portion of the public that views a lot of government expenditure with a jaundiced eye. A good public transit network is essential to getting people to work and elsewhere, and it's also essential in preventing paving over an ever increasing portion of our land for roadways for private autos. At the same time, I see a large number of bus routes in my area that carry relatively few people outside of the peak hours, if even then. How far do we go to serve areas where most people are set on using their cars? This is an existential question for how we live as an urban society. It's a tough one. I hope that resources can be found to avoid the cuts that Translink has identified as necessary to keep them going, with present funding. Cutting routes and reducing routes does opposite to transit; but for transit to be cost effective we need to induce demand for it. To actually make TransLink more cost effective it needs to reduce it mandate to transit only, and active modes of transportation. The Provincial Government and Metro Vancouver would need to road funding. |
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Post by Blue Bus Fan on Aug 31, 2024 15:12:50 GMT -8
Coast Mountain Bus Company is an operating subsidiary of TransLink. Hamilton Transit Centre is taking delivery of 50 Nova LFS Natural Gas buses which is new model of bus for Coast Mountain Bus Company. I am posting this photo because this a new model of buses in Metro Vancouver.  H24109 by Blue Bus Fan, on Flickr |
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Post by Blue Bus Fan on Nov 25, 2024 13:40:31 GMT -8
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