Mayor wants transit ‘terrorists’ banned, said the headline in the Surrey Leader. The ‘terrorists,’ according to Maple Ridge Mayor Gordy Robson, are those annoying Bus Rider Union orange-shirt types.
In his blog, Stephen Rees dissects the problem with closing board meetings to those annoying types – and the problem with the proposed TransLink structure:
I thought it was very significant that when Marvin Hunt was talking about the proposed new Translink, he detected a flaw in the arrangement. “Who are the Bus Rider’s union going to talk to?” he asked. I am fairly certain that Marvin has very little in common with the BRU, but he is an able politician and he recognised what Gordy (Robson) doesn’t. The BRU needs to be heard. And they will be heard one or another, so it might be better to let them in and put up with a bit of jeering now and then because the alternative could be much worse.
Much worse.
Thanks for the link
It showed up a missing word, now corrected in the original “one way or another”
The BRU has also responded