TransLink Stuff and Nonsense!
It seems that the regional mayors got tired of Langley City Mayor Fassbender support for the Evergreen line and changed the Chair ofAi??the Metro Vancouver Mayorsai??i?? Council on Transportation and voted District of North Vancouver Mayor Richard Walton as the new chair. No real change, as the Metro Vancouver Mayorsai??i?? Council on Transportation is as about as influential as a wet squib.
http://www.theprovince.com/news/Leadership+changes+TransLink+oversight+board/3954600/story.html
Until regional mayors understand the building new metro lines on routes that do not have the ridership to sustain them will require new taxes which translate into new and more onerous taxes.
The Georgia Straight has a story which confirms that the hype and hoopla from TransLink on the year and a half old Canada Line isn’t whatAi??it seems to be.Ai??TransLink has announced that the South Delta 602 & 603 buses (formerly BRT to downtown Vancouver) did not attract any new ridership and are now cut back to pre RAV days frequencies (about every 30 minutes). Zwei predicted this would happen almost a decade ago!
Also in the Straight are two other interesting items about transit. Simon Fraser University Proffessor Nancy Olewiler has been selected to the Translink Board of Ameteurs, and one doubts very much she 
knows her TramTrain from a PCC! The TransLink Board is nothing more than a huge Liberal pork barrel, for already over paid Liberal cronies to gorge on. The Proffessor of Ecconomics label may look nice but in reality just another passenger on the TransLink Ship of Fools.
http://www.straight.com/article-363943/vancouver/sfu-economics-prof-chair-translink-board
And now from TransLink’s other ‘pork barrel’, TransLink have given Cubit Industries the $180 million Smart Card and Turnstile contract. No surprize there! Funny though that former City of Vancouver City Manager (during Premier Campbell’s time as mayor); former TransLink Chair (Appointed by newly elected Premier Campbell) and now Lobbiest,Ai??Ken Dobell, was also the chief lobbiest for Cubit Industries steering them to the right people. In BC, you get what you pay for!
