Its only a hundred dollars. The government is raping us with projects even more useless and you guys are worried about a measly $100 ??? You should be up in arms about the olympics or the downtown eastside not translink for gods sake.

Agree. Over 1 Billion spent on DTES and wut did they achieve?

Absolutely nothing.

another addition to a long list of bills to pay.... shit!

Fare hike lol
So it's going to be $3 for a one zone pass?

walk or bike if you can't afford it

why should the rest of the population suffer just so you guys can get cheap fare?

When the economy's good, save save save. When the economy's bad, spend spend spend....:)

How about getting us some decent buses that don't overheat in the summer nor become unusable during the winter? I talked to some people in areas like Saskatchewan and they say buses rarely stop operation over there, even in some bad weather.

Rest of the country laughs at us because of these things, yet year after year they raise the fees to get 'improved' buses. Maybe we should also try to pull a few drivers from other provinces.

Post secondary students are already getting hit by tuition. Let's see someone from Richmond walk up to SFU. Most likely the U-Pass will be increasing their fee if this goes through.

seriously when are all these tax hike bs gonna end fuck

some of you guys need to learn to read before commenting.

Translink is involved with building a lot of public roadways in Metro Vancouver. I think it's BS to how if they dont get extra funding not only will there be no improvement in the transit system..they'll be CUTTING BACK buses.

They raise the fare $ every few years..and there's not much improvement in the system. They need to cut back on their worker's benefits and have a better anti-fare evasion system

Municipal Governments are some of the most backwards organizations... They figure out how much they want to spend and then tax accordingly... Unlike all other forms of government that figure out how much income they will have and then work within that budget... I have an idea... Put turnstiles on the skytrain... Fire the translink security (glorified rent-a-cops) and then fire HALF the Transportation Authority Police and put them inside the skytrain system and on random busses... NOT use them as a regional revenue generation force as they are our own GVRD WIDE Traffic enforcement police force... And papow... more people pay fares... less salaries to pay = More money for translink! :thumbsup:

time to move to California

fucken joke escially since east of the fraser there is almost no transit system (I have to walk 20mins to a bus stop.

you have it backwards, Transit security is more useful then those stupid GVTAPS. They should get rid of transit police and hire more transit security. Transit police are the most useless over paid in the system. They pull over cars for speeding more so then do any transit related work.

Translink isn't even reliable when people depend on them the most. When we had that little bit of snow on monday morning, I waited 35 minutes for the #7 bus and it never came so I ended up skipping lecture. I mean, come on, this is a bus route in VANCOUVER, not Surrey or Coquitlam. I felt more sorry for the other 10 or so people at the stop who probably had even more important things to attend to.

It's a trolley bus though.

While I disagree with most of what has been said in this thread, I have to say:

Why should that matter?

Translink = new government?

Then walk. Society shouldn't be burdened with your loser-lifestyle.

WTFS?!@, ya lets fuck students in the ass even more... about 80 bucks a month for fucking translink to school is a bitch in the pocket enoguh lol..


They should stop wasting money on those uselss fuck tards walking around the stations doing jack shit. Put up some gates at the entrances like in HK. No money, no bus pass, no open. EASY

ehhh, Olympics is really controversal, ya we spend money now and shit but it does help city growth, more jobs, bunch of other shit, and it puts us on the map- overall giving US a chance to show the world how awesome vancouver is -> aka giving us more tourists.

toronto's got a good system where you gotta put a token thru the machine to entera the gates.
i saw a few bums and a kid trying to hop the gates, but they coudn't b/c the security caught them haha

if this bill does pass i'm sure there is going to be some crazy protest at the translink station.

even translink passengers may own cars in which they drive on the weekends and take bus during the week days. they get double raped for the increase fares and the 100 dollar charge

You know a lot of students can't afford cars right? Ever thought about the fact that not everyone is powered by mommy and daddy during post secondary?

+1

:werd:

I don't understand why translink hasn't installed turnstile or gates, considering how they lose so much money through fair evasion.