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Just How Galling is TransLink’s Taxation Without Representation?
I wince in pain every time I board a Skytrain car and see this sign reminding us to keep our transit system clean. The TransLink board is a 21st century example of 18th century taxation without...
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TransLink’s New Electronic Fare Card’s Guaranteed Crappy Name
It’s too bad that TransLink has chosen four sad, bland, uninspiring, pseudo-clever names for us all to vote on for the name of their new electronic fare card. In the pre-Expo early 1980s we had a...
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Shame on You, You Ugly, Narcissistic Consumer
"If you had a secret wish, would you make it beautiful?" - False Creek Plastic Surgery Centre Some days it’s hard to make it through the day without something like the [theoretically] “public” transit...
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Policy Wishes For Harry Lali and Mike Farnworth
As the BC NDP leadership race ramps up, it’s time to see how we can improve the candidates’ posture when it comes to policy. Maybe they’re waiting until after the opponents choose their next leader...
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Translink: It’s the policy, that policy won’t change, and there’s no one you...
Pardon me for a rant about my commute. And about Translink. I hardly think it’s acceptable for a public organization that trumpets public consultation, taxes us, is governed by an unelected appointed...
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Liveblog – BC Civic Election Returms
BC Civic Election Returns September 19, 2010 COPE 2010 AGM Live-Blogging 2:30 Start (3)November 15, 2008 Why Vancouver’s NPA Lost Badly Today (7)October 24, 2008 Challenging the Myth of...
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How To Resolve The Transit Fare Evasion Problem
Transportation Minister Blair Lekstrom is bringing in new legislation to crack down on fare evaders, allowing collection agencies to go after people who don’t buy tickets. If Lekstrom really wants to...
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New, Better Jobs Building a Green Energy Infrastructure
Let’s go post-carbon and transform Big Carbon jobs into green jobs! We are so addicted to carbon-based energy: oil, gas, coal, LNG plants, fracking, pipelines, tanker spills. It gets so discouraging...
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Ice Crisis at the Poles: Ice, Ice, Baby
What continent is this, anyway? And why does it matter? The arctic ice cap will be fully melting in the next few summers, likely. There is a lake on top of the ice at the North Pole. Santa is getting...
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How Harper is Gutting Canada: THE LIST
Click me, to see the details of all that Harper is cutting from Canada’s soul. This is not to be missed. Les Whittington of the Toronto Star has conducted an exhaustive search of all the ways the...
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When Blog Comment Spam Goes Bad
You know you want it! Someone really crossed the line from whoops, to nuclear codes. One of the15,000 weekly blog spam comments that never make it to the human eyes stage on this website, accidentally...
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Most BCers Want to Get Off Fossil Fuels. Not Joking.
#PostCarbonEnergyInfrastructure. I know, I know, it’s a really clunky Twitter hashtag, so let’s just think of it as a concept for a second! Infrastructure: the systems in place for things like water...
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The Occupy Movement Has Changed the Narrative, But We’re Not Done
Recently, with the WEF spending the last few years acknowledging global income inequality is a problem, I’ve declared a kind of victory for the Occupy Movement: getting the lexicon on the 1% and...
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How Translink Impedes Transit Use
Translink is “being evasive on exactly how much money is being spent on this.” via Compass Card program delayed again by TransLink – British Columbia – CBC News. How’s that for not surprising....
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When Shaming Survivors is Not Enough: Police-State Motives Behind Sexual...
Photo credit Instagram: @the_noush. Permission to use granted. By Emily Griffiths The Transit Police got burned in the media recently, when rad feminist transit riders called them out publicly for...
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Transit Should Be Free; Until Then…
$1/day is a good start to get there. It’s good for the environment. It reduces commuter stress. It forces governments to increase progressive taxation to cover infrastructure costs. It uses BC’s cheap...
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Transportation After Fossil Fuels: A Decade Away?
Once upon a time, I rode the maglev at the Japan pavilion at Expo 86. Since then, I’ve come to see that that was the Commodore Vic 20 of high speed travel. What’s the new standard? ET3. So if you’ve...
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International Day of Action for Burnaby Mountain and ALL Land Defenders
Burnaby Mountain! This is an international day of action, so check the event page to see what’s up in your town, for TOMORROW! And if there’s nothing at your home, be the change! Let’s consolidate our...
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The So-Called Transit Referendum: Don’t Be Duped!
By Emily Griffiths The Transit referendum “Yes” campaign has been asserting itself all over Facebook, Twitter, neighbourhood news boxes, and I can’t help but ask myself, Since when is increasing a flat...
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Why People Hate the Translink Police
Replace “driver” with Translink cop. I had a hard time reading all the way through this article, the one about Translink cops terrorizing bus passengers on Friday night. I also had a hard time reading...
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