From Global News, in an interview with Premier Christy Clark:
Vancouver has a fantastic transit network, it has room to grow… “for anybody that sits in that Massey Tunnel it feels a lot less perfect than the Vancouver system.”
Remember this when it comes time to vote on spending billions for the Massey Bridge in the upcoming referendum on highway expansion.
Oh, wait.
It’s clear as day she has no interest in transit. I don’t even know why we’re bothering to go through the motions with her in power.
It almost sounds like a bad quote.
“for anybody that sits in that Massey Tunnel it feels a lot less perfect than the Vancouver system.”
I guess that means replacing the tunnel is a priority over the “Vancouver system”?
Can someone please take the Premier for a ride on the B-line? During rush hour? Please?? Room to grow – seriously?
So it is perfect that it takes someone 2-3x the length of time of a car trip to get somewhere on transit south of the Fraser? Students at Kwantlen staged a contest where someone running beat the bus travel time in 2011. http://www.abbynews.com/news/115228409.html
“Kwantlen students previously complained TransLink service was too ineffective south of the Fraser to make the standard $30-a-month TransLink U-Pass attractive enough.
They even staged a beat-the-bus race last fall that saw a runner go from campus to campus faster than a student who took the bus.
They intend to run their own shuttle service between the four Kwantlen campuses in Richmond, Langley and Surrey (Newton and Cloverdale) – paid for through an add-on fee that conveys other benefits as well.”
27 minutes driving 20.6km from Kwantlen Langley to Kwantlen Newton. Bus: shortest Google directions 1h, 21min.