Zigzag bus route needs a tug to pick up the slack
In planning my trip to the Island this past weekend, I looked up how to bus to the Tsawwassen Ferry Terminal. What I got looked like a maze that would take me as long to traverse as travelling via transit all the way to North Vancouver. In retrospect it is reminiscient of the kind of path taken by a small troll-in-a-wind-up-car toy my mom so aptly named Fuzzy Logic. It just could not make up its mind which direction to travel, and afforded us many giggles.
There is, however, little to giggle about here when one considers the possibility of travelling this route. It was no question that this wasn’t how I was going to spend my Saturday morning.
Ha!
This frequent laughing stock of a transportation system brings to mind the words of Surrey’s Mayor Diane Watts who, with the other South of Fraser mayors rejected TransLink’s South of Fraser plan and called for more transportation connecting the communities of Surrey, a need that TransLink has so far made less than feeble attempts to meet when compared to other municipalities. TransLink is also hiking up fares again starting January 1st, boasting at what they’ve accomplished lately, while I personally (and my neighbours can attest to this) have seen nothing but cutbacks to our frequency and dependability of service. So, TransLink, can I pay less?
