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01-19-2009, 11:15 AM
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Originally Posted by hotjoint  I work for ecare contact centers. I work in the business technology department upstairs on the 4th floor. My desk is in the corner looking out at 152nd and 104th. Its a sweet window seat especially in the summers when you see the hotties in their skimp clothes  | LOL I thought so I worked there for about 6 months back in 03-04  | 
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01-19-2009, 11:18 AM
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01-19-2009, 11:44 AM
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Imagine something like this happens during the Olympics?
All it took was one dumbass to route 80,000 cars daily to 2 other already shitty bridges for 6 bloody weeks.
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01-19-2009, 11:58 AM
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Originally Posted by TRD604 everyone have fun commuting this morning?
i skipped work..hehe |
are you going to skip every day until they finish their band-aid of the patullo? 
my manager usually comes in from delta around 6:45am in vancouver. this morning he drove to the alex fraser and saw total gridlock. went back home (he's about 5 minutes from the bridge) and tried to take the bus, then skytrain... he just got in before lunch 
because he has to make up for the time he lost this morning, he will have to leave late this afternoon. he's debating whether to stay at a local motel tonite  | |
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01-19-2009, 12:10 PM
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Originally Posted by murd0c LOL I thought so I worked there for about 6 months back in 03-04 | ahhh nice, yeah I joined in 06 so you were way before my time
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01-19-2009, 12:19 PM
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#81 | | I don't get it
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People cant even bike if they wanted to on Port Mann and Alex Fraser...
IMHO I don't get why they don't allow pedestrians or bikers on the pattullo... Compared to the weight of the bridge itself the people weigh next to nothing, and plus there wont be cars or trucks... unless they think the bridge can collapse at any moment or something.
That should relieve a tiny bit of stress if they did it.
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01-19-2009, 12:22 PM
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01-19-2009, 12:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Toeknee People cant even bike if they wanted to on Port Mann and Alex Fraser...
IMHO I don't get why they don't allow pedestrians or bikers on the pattullo... Compared to the weight of the bridge itself the people weigh next to nothing, and plus there wont be cars or trucks... unless they think the bridge can collapse at any moment or something.
That should relieve a tiny bit of stress if they did it. | I think its because its a really small bridge and they don't want drivers worrying about pedestrians? I'm not 100% sure but I don't think the pattullo has a sidewalk with a railing. IMO they shouldn't let big 18 wheelers drive on the Pattullo since its so small.
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01-19-2009, 01:28 PM
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#84 | | Hypa owned my ass at least once
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Originally Posted by iwantaskyline I think its because its a really small bridge and they don't want drivers worrying about pedestrians? I'm not 100% sure but I don't think the pattullo has a sidewalk with a railing. IMO they shouldn't let big 18 wheelers drive on the Pattullo since its so small. | I think that restriction might already be in place. If not, I have heard of many a truckers says its a standard norm for truckers to avoid that bridge out of sheer preference.
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01-19-2009, 01:34 PM
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Originally Posted by iwantaskyline I think its because its a really small bridge and they don't want drivers worrying about pedestrians? I'm not 100% sure but I don't think the pattullo has a sidewalk with a railing. IMO they shouldn't let big 18 wheelers drive on the Pattullo since its so small. |
it's more like a high curb than a sidewalk imo  | |
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01-19-2009, 03:07 PM
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it finally died down around 3 o clock when i went home, it was nuts today, gonna be crazy like this for the next month or so
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01-19-2009, 03:41 PM
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Originally Posted by yson_3 was it the part that she said, "homeless are known to live under the bridge, so police have begun their questioning with them" ?? I dont think that means. it was homeless. head out of ass much? | I don't make this shit up... the police have already confirmed it was a group of homeless people who broke into the fenced area under the bridge (where the wooden part is) and had a campfire going for warmth.
Watch the clip again, then remove YOUR head from YOUR ass.
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01-19-2009, 04:21 PM
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Originally Posted by jlenko I don't make this shit up... the police have already confirmed it was a group of homeless people who broke into the fenced area under the bridge (where the wooden part is) and had a campfire going for warmth.
Watch the clip again, then remove YOUR head from YOUR ass. | i can also comfirm that homeless people actually live under that part of the bridge so its more than likely them that started the fire. Onviously for warmth. Cause if someone else did it, u think homeless people is gonna let someone torched there home on fire with all there belongings under there...... i dont think so
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01-19-2009, 06:38 PM
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Sad that in this country, in this day and age, people still have to resort to living under bridges to survive.
The bridge will be fixed in a month and a half.
Will more homeless shelters be built any time soon?
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01-19-2009, 06:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Great68 Sad that in this country, in this day and age, people still have to resort to living under bridges to survive.
The bridge will be fixed in a month and a half.
Will more homeless shelters be built any time soon? | I have a radical idea, lets hire the poor to deport the poor! Its a win-win situation because we give them jobs and export them to other countries. On second thoughts we could draft all of them into the army and send them overseas with minimal training and obsolete equipment. No one will miss them | |
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01-19-2009, 07:08 PM
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Originally Posted by jlenko I don't make this shit up... the police have already confirmed it was a group of homeless people who broke into the fenced area under the bridge (where the wooden part is) and had a campfire going for warmth.
Watch the clip again, then remove YOUR head from YOUR ass. |
hmm... in that case,
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01-19-2009, 07:28 PM
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now all we need is the port man to go on the fritz then this cities really fucked
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01-19-2009, 07:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Great68 Sad that in this country, in this day and age, people still have to resort to living under bridges to survive.
The bridge will be fixed in a month and a half.
Will more homeless shelters be built any time soon? | the cops should have taken them up the bridge and pushed them off. shelter problem fixed.
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01-19-2009, 08:51 PM
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You guy's complain, but fuck that is a sad story.
There's too many spoiled fucking brat punks on this site. I've never had to live on a street, and never will, but damn though it might be a pain in the ass with the bridge down, what a sorry existance it must be to resort to sleeping under a bridge in the cold.
It's a damn shame that there are people still out there that have to live like that. With the wealth in this world, we shouldn't have people living in such barbaric conditions. When I heard it was homeless people I could only think about sleeping under that nasty ass bridge beside the water, christ that's depressing.
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01-19-2009, 09:37 PM
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Originally Posted by mgarba You guy's complain, but fuck that is a sad story.
There's too many spoiled fucking brat punks on this site. I've never had to live on a street, and never will, but damn though it might be a pain in the ass with the bridge down, what a sorry existance it must be to resort to sleeping under a bridge in the cold.
It's a damn shame that there are people still out there that have to live like that. With the wealth in this world, we shouldn't have people living in such barbaric conditions. When I heard it was homeless people I could only think about sleeping under that nasty ass bridge beside the water, christ that's depressing. | Just a proof that capitalism doesn't work. What you wanna do? Get communism? Don't be stupid. 
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01-19-2009, 09:38 PM
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They could all do something important with their lives, like joining the army and going over seas.
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Originally Posted by kc1337 They could all do something important with their lives, like joining the army and going over seas. | Many homeless people have certain illnesses that make them incapable of working. For example a schizophrenic. Don't view them all as lazy bums who live on the street because they don't want to work. Most are very unfortunate.
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01-19-2009, 09:56 PM
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Whatever man. I worked in the Prison system, and it's sad the kind of people you run into. A lot of them as stated have serious mental issues, and end up on the streets.
There is absolutely no reason with the wealth in the Western World to have folks living on the streets, without some kind of appropriate housing. The unfortunate fact is that kind of housing isn't really fully available for all those folks.
Say what you want, but think about it when you go to sleep tonight in your warm bed, while someone else is sleeping under a bridge or in alley in Winter Cold.
You have to be a pretty sick person to not have some type of sympathy for these people, personally.
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01-19-2009, 10:26 PM
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Originally Posted by iwantaskyline Many homeless people have certain illnesses that make them incapable of working. For example a schizophrenic. Don't view them all as lazy bums who live on the street because they don't want to work. Most are very unfortunate. | so what can the system do to help them out? i'm sure if there was an easy answer, it'd be done by now.
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01-19-2009, 10:44 PM
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^ Like I said, communism works, but will the people that already have the wealth and comfort be willing to give up?
sheesh. Don't talk like you are a saint, if it's either you or the bum you'd do anything to give him the short end of the stick.
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