What makes Stephen Quinn’s Globe column so scathing is that it might be true.
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The very abridged version:
Province tells transit riders where to get off
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Hello, Transit Rider. It’s me, the province calling. …
Look, this isn’t easy, okay? So just listen. I’m just going to come out and say it and it’s going to hurt and you’re not going to like it but it needs to be said, so here goes: I don’t like you. I’ve never liked you. I don’t care about you and I wish you’d go away. …
Look, this can’t be coming as surprise, right. I mean, I’ve been sending you signals for years.
What did you think was going on?…
I know this is all pretty harsh but I didn’t know what else to do. You’re not exactly a master of reading between the lines. I figured the direct approach was the best. I know it hurts now, but it’ll fade.
And before you go thinking there’s anything you could have done to make things different or to make me care about you, there isn’t.
Or, I don’t know, maybe you could buy a car.
Gord, you may recall that the first doubling of the cross came on the NDP’s watch in 2000, when, after the region toughed it out on the vehicle levy and the GVRD Board narrowly approved it, the provincial government of the day declined to act and instead called for an audit. And around and around we (still) go….
Spot on. Here’s the ad Get On Board could run on buses to follow up. http://imgur.com/bJ0zq14
yes spot on (and nice poster Neil)…but wait a minute:
“I wouldn’t even build you a shelter”
That is not a Province call!
Both neither the Province, nor Translink are responsible for bus shelters,…but the cities (who are in charge of their streets and their furnishing).
Do you know this party in charge of the city of Vancouver, is responsible for the lack of bus shelter…the lack of bus lanes (because it believes the lanes are better to be used by parked car)…, and the lack of everything costing nearly nothing but making Transit so much more convenient…but since it organizes some petitions on facebook for “better transit”, it must be supporting transit isn’it?
…at least as much as Bachar al Assad is against the use of chemical weapon…
A good time to remind the sad true when come transit in Vancouver:
http://voony.wordpress.com/2013/10/07/vancouvers-war-on-buses/
The province (and it is not only the BC liberals as remind us Ken Hardie) doesnt like the Transit rider…and the city of Vancouver, don’t really care.