The Real Question TransLink Is Afraid To Ask

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In true Orwellian fashion, TransLink “TransLink wants to hear from you“; but in reality they do not.

In TransLink Speak, almost everything is opposite to the questions asked.

TransLink and all the hangers-on certainly did not want to hear from the taxpayer in 2015 when over 60%  did not want TransLink to proceed with their SkyTrain expansion plans and TransLink just went ahead and did it.

Part of the fallout over this PR fiasco is that TransLink send Emails to to take part in a survey to pretend the listen.

Of course TransLink does not listen, they never have and never will as its bureaucracy refuse to accept they are doing a ban job; no a terrible job in providing user friendly public transit in the region.

In short, TransLink does not give a damn.

The latest survey Zwei  received in an Email, started with a list about taking transit, with one selection, “I do not take transit”, which I selected and the poll ended. My option not needed.

What has happened is TransLink has turned this into a “push poll” (a Push Poll is an ostensible opinion poll in which the true objective is to sway voters by using loaded questions), with only transit users allowed to complete it.

For many, they do not see a problem, but for the 80% of people in the region who do not use transit, they have no input.

TransLink does not want meaningful input because of the billions and billions of dollars spent on rapid transit and buses, 80% of the population in the region do not use transit and that 80% has remained constant for over two decades.

Would it not it be better for TransLink to find out why 80% of the people in Metro Vancouver do not take transit? Would it not be better to take measures to entice people to take transit?

Not TransLink because the truth would be very embarrassing an ossified bureaucracy that has carved a very lucrative niche that the taxpayer cannot remove, which policies have proven largely failures.

TransLink is left doing “Push Polls”, to get predetermined answers to survey questions, to the delight of politicians, pretending that TransLink listens, when it clearly does not.

The problem with TransLink is that you can never believe what it says; TransLink never produces a report based on the same set of assumptions.”

Former West Vancouver Clr. Victor Durman, Chair of the GVRD (now METRO) Finance Committee.

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